Functional Consequences of the SCN5A-p.Y1977N Mutation within the PY Ubiquitylation Motif: Discrepancy between HEK293 Cells and Transgenic Mice.

Casini, Simona; Albesa, Maxime; Wang, Zizun; Portero, Vincent; Ross-Kaschitza, Daniela; Rougier, Jean-Sébastien; Marchal, Gerard A; Chung, Wendy K; Bezzina, Connie R; Abriel, Hugues; Remme, Carol Ann (2019). Functional Consequences of the SCN5A-p.Y1977N Mutation within the PY Ubiquitylation Motif: Discrepancy between HEK293 Cells and Transgenic Mice. International journal of molecular sciences, 20(20) MDPI 10.3390/ijms20205033

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Dysfunction of the cardiac sodium channel Nav1.5 (encoded by the SCN5A gene) is associated with arrhythmias and sudden cardiac death. SCN5A mutations associated with long QT syndrome type 3 (LQT3) lead to enhanced late sodium current and consequent action potential (AP) prolongation. Internalization and degradation of Nav1.5 is regulated by ubiquitylation, a post-translational mechanism that involves binding of the ubiquitin ligase Nedd4-2 to a proline-proline-serine-tyrosine sequence of Nav1.5, designated the PY-motif. We investigated the biophysical properties of the LQT3-associated SCN5A-p.Y1977N mutation located in the Nav1.5 PY-motif, both in HEK293 cells as well as in newly generated mice harboring the mouse homolog mutation Scn5a-p.Y1981N. We found that in HEK293 cells, the SCN5A-p.Y1977N mutation abolished the interaction between Nav1.5 and Nedd4-2, suppressed PY-motif-dependent ubiquitylation of Nav1.5, and consequently abrogated Nedd4-2 induced sodium current (INa) decrease. Nevertheless, homozygous mice harboring the Scn5a-p.Y1981N mutation showed no electrophysiological alterations nor changes in AP or (late) INa properties, questioning the in vivo relevance of the PY-motif. Our findings suggest the presence of compensatory mechanisms, with additional, as yet unknown, factors likely required to reduce the "ubiquitylation reserve" of Nav1.5. Future identification of such modulatory factors may identify potential triggers for arrhythmias and sudden cardiac death in the setting of LQT3 mutations.

Item Type:

Journal Article (Original Article)

Division/Institute:

04 Faculty of Medicine > Pre-clinic Human Medicine > Institute of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine

UniBE Contributor:

Wang, Zizun, Ross, Daniela, Rougier, Jean-Sébastien, Abriel, Hugues

Subjects:

500 Science > 570 Life sciences; biology
600 Technology > 610 Medicine & health

ISSN:

1661-6596

Publisher:

MDPI

Language:

English

Submitter:

Kevin Marc Rupp

Date Deposited:

30 Jan 2020 15:12

Last Modified:

07 Aug 2024 15:45

Publisher DOI:

10.3390/ijms20205033

PubMed ID:

31614475

Uncontrolled Keywords:

Nedd4-2 SCN5A action potential long QT syndrome mouse model patch-clamp sodium current ubiquitylation

BORIS DOI:

10.7892/boris.138164

URI:

https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/138164

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