期刊
GENES
卷 12, 期 11, 页码 -出版社
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/genes12111810
关键词
cystic fibrosis; CFTR; PTC mutations; nonsense-mediated decay; readthrough
资金
- FCT, Portugal [UIDB/04046/2020, UIDP/04046/2020, SFRH/BD/142857/2018, PD/00065/2012]
- CFF-USA [AMARAL15XX0, AMARAL15XX1, AMARAL19G0, FARINH19I0]
Recent advances have been made in the development and application of CFTR mutation class-specific modulator therapies, but there are currently no approved modulators for Class I mutations. Different PTC mutations have varying effects on CFTR mRNA abundance, integrity, and stability, and optimizing the rescue of PTC mutations requires consideration of these factors.
Major advances have recently been made in the development and application of CFTR (cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator) mutation class-specific modulator therapies, but to date, there are no approved modulators for Class I mutations, i.e., those introducing a premature termination codon (PTC) into the CFTR mRNA. Such mutations induce nonsense-mediated decay (NMD), a cellular quality control mechanism that reduces the quantity of PTC bearing mRNAs, presumably to avoid translation of potentially deleterious truncated CFTR proteins. The NMD-mediated reduction of PTC-CFTR mRNA molecules reduces the efficacy of one of the most promising approaches to treatment of such mutations, namely, PTC readthrough therapy, using molecules that induce the incorporation of near-cognate amino acids at the PTC codon, thereby enabling translation of a full-length protein. In this study, we measure the effect of three different PTC mutations on the abundance, integrity, and stability of respective CFTR mRNAs, using CFTR specific RT-qPCR-based assays. Altogether, our data suggest that optimized rescue of PTC mutations has to take into account (1) the different steady-state levels of the CFTR mRNA associated with each specific PTC mutation; (2) differences in abundance between the 3 & PRIME; and 5 & PRIME; regions of CFTR mRNA, even following PTC readthrough or NMD inhibition; and (3) variable effects on CFTR mRNA stability for each specific PTC mutation.
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