TY - JOUR
T1 - Missense changes in the catalytic domain of coagulation factor X account for minimal function preventing a perinatal lethal condition
AU - Ferrarese, Mattia
AU - Baroni, Marcello
AU - Della Valle, Patrizia
AU - Spiga, Ivana
AU - Poloniato, Antonella
AU - D'Angelo, Armando
AU - Pinotti, Mirko
AU - Bernardi, Francesco
AU - Branchini, Alessio
PY - 2019/7
Y1 - 2019/7
N2 - Introduction: Inherited deficiencies in the coagulation pathway provide diversified models to investigate the molecular bases of perinatal lethality associated with null-like variants. Differently from X-linked haemophilias, homozygous/doubly heterozygous null variants in the rare autosomally inherited deficiency of factor X (FX) might be incompatible with perinatal survival. Aim: To provide experimental evidence about the null/close-to-null FX function. Methods: The residual secreted (ELISA) and functional (thrombin generation assays) protein levels associated with the novel nonsense (c.1382G>A; p.Trp461Ter) and missense (c.752T>C; p.Leu251Pro) variants, found in the proposita with life-threatening symptoms at birth, were characterized through recombinant (r)FX expression. Results: The rFX-461Ter showed very low secretion and undetectable function. Expression and function of the predicted readthrough-deriving missense variants (rFX-461Tyr, rFX-461Gln) were also severely impaired. These unfavourable features, due to nucleotide and protein sequence constraints, precluded functional readthrough over the 461 stop codon. Differently, the poorly secreted rFX-251Pro variant displayed residual function that was characterized by anti-TFPI aptamer-based amplification or selective inhibition of activated FX function by fondaparinux in plasma and found to be reduced by approximately three orders of magnitude. Similarly to the rFX-251Pro, a group of catalytic domain missense variants cause poorly secreted molecules with modest function in FX-deficient patients with life-threatening symptoms. Conclusions: Our data, contributing to the knowledge of the very severe FX deficiency forms, support life-saving requirement of trace FX function, clearly exemplified by the dysfunctional but not completely inactive rFX-251Pro variant that, albeit with severely reduced function, is compatible with a residual activity ensuring minimal haemostasis and permitting perinatal survival.
AB - Introduction: Inherited deficiencies in the coagulation pathway provide diversified models to investigate the molecular bases of perinatal lethality associated with null-like variants. Differently from X-linked haemophilias, homozygous/doubly heterozygous null variants in the rare autosomally inherited deficiency of factor X (FX) might be incompatible with perinatal survival. Aim: To provide experimental evidence about the null/close-to-null FX function. Methods: The residual secreted (ELISA) and functional (thrombin generation assays) protein levels associated with the novel nonsense (c.1382G>A; p.Trp461Ter) and missense (c.752T>C; p.Leu251Pro) variants, found in the proposita with life-threatening symptoms at birth, were characterized through recombinant (r)FX expression. Results: The rFX-461Ter showed very low secretion and undetectable function. Expression and function of the predicted readthrough-deriving missense variants (rFX-461Tyr, rFX-461Gln) were also severely impaired. These unfavourable features, due to nucleotide and protein sequence constraints, precluded functional readthrough over the 461 stop codon. Differently, the poorly secreted rFX-251Pro variant displayed residual function that was characterized by anti-TFPI aptamer-based amplification or selective inhibition of activated FX function by fondaparinux in plasma and found to be reduced by approximately three orders of magnitude. Similarly to the rFX-251Pro, a group of catalytic domain missense variants cause poorly secreted molecules with modest function in FX-deficient patients with life-threatening symptoms. Conclusions: Our data, contributing to the knowledge of the very severe FX deficiency forms, support life-saving requirement of trace FX function, clearly exemplified by the dysfunctional but not completely inactive rFX-251Pro variant that, albeit with severely reduced function, is compatible with a residual activity ensuring minimal haemostasis and permitting perinatal survival.
KW - factor X deficiency
KW - missense variants
KW - nonsense variants
KW - null variants
KW - recombinant proteins
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U2 - 10.1111/hae.13761
DO - 10.1111/hae.13761
M3 - Article
C2 - 30994257
AN - SCOPUS:85064700140
VL - 25
SP - 685
EP - 692
JO - Haemophilia
JF - Haemophilia
SN - 1351-8216
IS - 4
ER -