Gene- and variant-specific efficacy of serum/glucocorticoid-regulated kinase 1 inhibition in long QT syndrome types 1 and 2

© The Author(s) 2023. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the European Society of Cardiology..

AIMS: Current long QT syndrome (LQTS) therapy, largely based on beta-blockade, does not prevent arrhythmias in all patients; therefore, novel therapies are warranted. Pharmacological inhibition of the serum/glucocorticoid-regulated kinase 1 (SGK1-Inh) has been shown to shorten action potential duration (APD) in LQTS type 3. We aimed to investigate whether SGK1-Inh could similarly shorten APD in LQTS types 1 and 2.

METHODS AND RESULTS: Human-induced pluripotent stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes (hiPSC-CMs) and hiPSC-cardiac cell sheets (CCS) were obtained from LQT1 and LQT2 patients; CMs were isolated from transgenic LQT1, LQT2, and wild-type (WT) rabbits. Serum/glucocorticoid-regulated kinase 1 inhibition effects (300 nM-10 µM) on field potential durations (FPD) were investigated in hiPSC-CMs with multielectrode arrays; optical mapping was performed in LQT2 CCS. Whole-cell and perforated patch clamp recordings were performed in isolated LQT1, LQT2, and WT rabbit CMs to investigate SGK1-Inh (3 µM) effects on APD. In all LQT2 models across different species (hiPSC-CMs, hiPSC-CCS, and rabbit CMs) and independent of the disease-causing variant (KCNH2-p.A561V/p.A614V/p.G628S/IVS9-28A/G), SGK1-Inh dose-dependently shortened FPD/APD at 0.3-10 µM (by 20-32%/25-30%/44-45%). Importantly, in LQT2 rabbit CMs, 3 µM SGK1-Inh normalized APD to its WT value. A significant FPD shortening was observed in KCNQ1-p.R594Q hiPSC-CMs at 1/3/10 µM (by 19/26/35%) and in KCNQ1-p.A341V hiPSC-CMs at 10 µM (by 29%). No SGK1-Inh-induced FPD/APD shortening effect was observed in LQT1 KCNQ1-p.A341V hiPSC-CMs or KCNQ1-p.Y315S rabbit CMs at 0.3-3 µM.

CONCLUSION: A robust SGK1-Inh-induced APD shortening was observed across different LQT2 models, species, and genetic variants but less consistently in LQT1 models. This suggests a genotype- and variant-specific beneficial effect of this novel therapeutic approach in LQTS.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:25

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Europace : European pacing, arrhythmias, and cardiac electrophysiology : journal of the working groups on cardiac pacing, arrhythmias, and cardiac cellular electrophysiology of the European Society of Cardiology - 25(2023), 5 vom: 19. Mai

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Giannetti, Federica [VerfasserIn]
Barbieri, Miriam [VerfasserIn]
Shiti, Assad [VerfasserIn]
Casini, Simona [VerfasserIn]
Sager, Philip T [VerfasserIn]
Das, Saumya [VerfasserIn]
Pradhananga, Sabindra [VerfasserIn]
Srinivasan, Dinesh [VerfasserIn]
Nimani, Saranda [VerfasserIn]
Alerni, Nicolò [VerfasserIn]
Louradour, Julien [VerfasserIn]
Mura, Manuela [VerfasserIn]
Gnecchi, Massimiliano [VerfasserIn]
Brink, Paul [VerfasserIn]
Zehender, Manfred [VerfasserIn]
Koren, Gideon [VerfasserIn]
Zaza, Antonio [VerfasserIn]
Crotti, Lia [VerfasserIn]
Wilde, Arthur A M [VerfasserIn]
Schwartz, Peter J [VerfasserIn]
Remme, Carol Ann [VerfasserIn]
Gepstein, Lior [VerfasserIn]
Sala, Luca [VerfasserIn]
Odening, Katja E [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Animal models
Cellular electrophysiology
Genotype-specific therapy
Glucocorticoids
HiPSC
Journal Article
KCNQ1 Potassium Channel
LQTS
Mechanism-based therapy

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Date Completed 01.06.2023

Date Revised 23.08.2023

published: Print

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1093/europace/euad094

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM35603271X