期刊
DEVELOPMENT
卷 143, 期 24, 页码 4713-4722出版社
COMPANY BIOLOGISTS LTD
DOI: 10.1242/dev.139246
关键词
Sarcomere assembly; TALEN; Titin; Zebrafish; Allelic heterogeneity
资金
- National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute [HL81753, HL107304]
- Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research
Titin-truncating variants (TTNtvs) are the major cause of dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM); however, allelic heterogeneity (TTNtvs in different exons) results in variable phenotypes, and remains a major hurdle for disease diagnosis and therapy. Here, we generated a panel of ttn mutants in zebrafish. Four single deletion mutants in ttn. 2 or ttn. 1 resulted in four phenotypes and three double ttn. 2/ttn. 1 mutants exhibited more severe phenotypes in somites. Protein analysis identified ttn(xu071) as a near-null mutant and the other six mutants as hypomorphic alleles. Studies of ttn(xu071) uncovered a function of titin in guiding the assembly of nascent myofibrils from premyofibrils. By contrast, sarcomeres were assembled in the hypomorphic ttn mutants but either became susceptible to biomechanical stresses such as contraction or degenerated during development. Further genetic studies indicated that the exon usage hypothesis, but not the toxic peptide or the Cronos hypothesis, could account for these exon-dependent effects. In conclusion, we modeled TTNtv allelic heterogeneity during development and paved the way for future studies to decipher allelic heterogeneity in adult DCM.
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