Mechanism based therapies enable personalised treatment of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy

Autor: Francesca Margara, Yiangos Psaras, Zhinuo Jenny Wang, Manuel Schmid, Ruben Doste, Amanda C. Garfinkel, Giuliana G. Repetti, Jonathan G. Seidman, Christine E. Seidman, Blanca Rodriguez, Christopher N. Toepfer, Alfonso Bueno-Orovio
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: Scientific Reports, Vol 12, Iss 1, Pp 1-17 (2022)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2045-2322
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-022-26889-2
Popis: Abstract Cardiomyopathies have unresolved genotype–phenotype relationships and lack disease-specific treatments. Here we provide a framework to identify genotype-specific pathomechanisms and therapeutic targets to accelerate the development of precision medicine. We use human cardiac electromechanical in-silico modelling and simulation which we validate with experimental hiPSC-CM data and modelling in combination with clinical biomarkers. We select hypertrophic cardiomyopathy as a challenge for this approach and study genetic variations that mutate proteins of the thick (MYH7 R403Q/+) and thin filaments (TNNT2 R92Q/+, TNNI3 R21C/+) of the cardiac sarcomere. Using in-silico techniques we show that the destabilisation of myosin super relaxation observed in hiPSC-CMs drives disease in virtual cells and ventricles carrying the MYH7R403Q/+ variant, and that secondary effects on thin filament activation are necessary to precipitate slowed relaxation of the cell and diastolic insufficiency in the chamber. In-silico modelling shows that Mavacamten corrects the MYH7R403Q/+ phenotype in agreement with hiPSC-CM experiments. Our in-silico model predicts that the thin filament variants TNNT2R92Q/+ and TNNI3R21C/+ display altered calcium regulation as central pathomechanism, for which Mavacamten provides incomplete salvage, which we have corroborated in TNNT2R92Q/+ and TNNI3R21C/+ hiPSC-CMs. We define the ideal characteristics of a novel thin filament-targeting compound and show its efficacy in-silico. We demonstrate that hybrid human-based hiPSC-CM and in-silico studies accelerate pathomechanism discovery and classification testing, improving clinical interpretation of genetic variants, and directing rational therapeutic targeting and design.
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