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  • iPSC-derived cardiomyocytes...
    Poulin, Hugo; Mercier, Aurélie; Djemai, Mohammed; Pouliot, Valérie; Deschenes, Isabelle; Boutjdir, Mohamed; Puymirat, Jack; Chahine, Mohamed

    Scientific reports, 01/2021, Letnik: 11, Številka: 1
    Journal Article

    Cardiac complications such as electrical abnormalities including conduction delays and arrhythmias are the main cause of death in individuals with Myotonic Dystrophy type 1 (DM1). We developed a disease model using iPSC-derived cardiomyocytes (iPSC-CMs) from a healthy individual and two DM1 patients with different CTG repeats lengths and clinical history (DM1-1300 and DM1-300). We confirmed the presence of toxic RNA foci and mis-spliced MBNL1/2 transcripts in DM1 iPSC-CMs. In DM1-1300, we identified a switch in the cardiac sodium channel SCN5A from the adult to the neonatal isoform. The down-regulation of adult SCN5A isoforms is consistent with a shift in the sodium current activation to depolarized potentials observed in DM1-1300. L-type calcium current density was higher in iPSC-CMs from DM1-1300, which is correlated with the overexpression of the Ca 1.2 transcript and proteins. Importantly, I and I dysfunctions resulted in prolonged action potentials duration, slower velocities, and decreased overshoots. Optical mapping analysis revealed a slower conduction velocity in DM1-1300 iPSC-CM monolayers. In conclusion, our data revealed two distinct ions channels perturbations in DM1 iPSC-CM from the patient with cardiac dysfunction, one affecting Na channels and one affecting Ca channels. Both have an impact on cardiac APs and ultimately on heart conduction.