A common variant alters SCN5A-miR-24 interaction and associates with heart failure mortality

Xiaoming Zhang, Jin Young Yoon, Michael Morley, Jared M. McLendon, Kranti A. Mapuskar, Rebecca Gutmann, Haider Mehdi, Heather L. Bloom, Samuel C. Dudley, Patrick T. Ellinor, Alaa A. Shalaby, Raul Weiss, W. H.Wilson Tang, Christine S. Moravec, Madhurmeet Singh, Anne L. Taylor, Clyde W. Yancy, Arthur M. Feldman, Dennis M. McNamara, Kaikobad IraniDouglas R. Spitz, Patrick Breheny, Kenneth B. Margulies, Barry London, Ryan L. Boudreau*

*Corresponding author for this work

Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

37 Scopus citations

Abstract

SCN5A encodes the voltage-gated Na+ channel NaV1.5 that is responsible for depolarization of the cardiac action potential and rapid intercellular conduction. Mutations disrupting the SCN5A coding sequence cause inherited arrhythmias and cardiomyopathy, and single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) linked to SCN5A splicing, localization, and function associate with heart failure-related sudden cardiac death. However, the clinical relevance of SNPs that modulate SCN5A expression levels remains understudied. We recently generated a transcriptome-wide map of microRNA (miR) binding sites in human heart, evaluated their overlap with common SNPs, and identified a synonymous SNP (rs1805126) adjacent to a miR-24 site within the SCN5A coding sequence. This SNP was previously shown to reproducibly associate with cardiac electrophysiological parameters, but was not considered to be causal. Here, we show that miR-24 potently suppresses SCN5A expression and that rs1805126 modulates this regulation. We found that the rs1805126 minor allele associates with decreased cardiac SCN5A expression and that heart failure subjects homozygous for the minor allele have decreased ejection fraction and increased mortality, but not increased ventricular tachyarrhythmias. In mice, we identified a potential basis for this in discovering that decreased Scn5a expression leads to accumulation of myocardial reactive oxygen species. Together, these data reiterate the importance of considering the mechanistic significance of synonymous SNPs as they relate to miRs and disease, and highlight a surprising link between SCN5A expression and nonarrhythmic death in heart failure.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)1154-1163
Number of pages10
JournalJournal of Clinical Investigation
Volume128
Issue number3
DOIs
StatePublished - Mar 1 2018

Funding

This work was supported by the American Heart Association (14SDG18590008 to R.L. Boudreau), Roy J. Carver Trust (Uni- versity of Iowa to R.L. Boudreau), NIH NCI (CA182804 to D.R. Spitz), NIH NHLBI (HL77398 to B. London, HL115955 to K. Irani and B. London, HL105993 to K.B. Margulies and W.H.W. Tang, and HL007121 to J.M. McLendon). We also acknowledge members of the Boudreau and London labs for scientific discussion and manuscript feedback.

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General Medicine

Fingerprint

Dive into the research topics of 'A common variant alters SCN5A-miR-24 interaction and associates with heart failure mortality'. Together they form a unique fingerprint.

Cite this