Characterization of Cardiac Conduction System Abnormalities in Mice with Targeted Disruption of Six5 Gene

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Hiroko Wakimoto1, Colin T. Maguire1, Megan C. Sherwood1,2, Marcel M. Vargas1, Partha S. Sarkar3, Jennifer Han3, Sita Reddy3, Charles I. Berul1
1Department of Cardiology, Children’s Hospital, Boston, USA
2Department of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA
3Institute for Genetic Medicine, University of Southern California School of Medicine, Los Angeles, USA

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Myotonic dystrophy (DM) is an autosomal dominant multisystem disorder, caused by expansion of a CTG trinucleotide repeat in the 3′ untranslated region of the myotonic dystrophy protein kinase gene (DMPK) on chromosome 19q13. Cardiac involvement in DM includes conduction abnormalities and functional deficits. Three hypotheses of molecular mechanisms for DM pathophysiology are; first, partial loss of myotonic dystrophy protein kinase (DMPK); second, decreased transcription of a neighboring homeodomain-encoding gene, Six5 (or DMAHP), and third, transdominant effects of the RNA and regulation of splicing associated with expression of expanded CUG repeats. However, the precise pathogenetic mechanism remains unresolved. We previously reported that dosage of Dm15, the mouse homologue of DMPK, strongly associates with the cardiac conduction abnormalities. For further distinction of the molecular mechanisms underlying the cardiac phenotype of DM, in the present study, we characterized the cardiac conduction findings of mice with targeted disruption of Six5 gene. Six5 heterozygous mice (adult and young) and their age matched wild type littermates were studied using in vivo electrophysiologic techniques, echocardiography, heart rate variability and exercise tolerance testing. No PR prolongation was detected, however, prolonged QRS duration and delayed infraHisian conduction were significant in adult Six5 heterozygous mice. By echocardiography, left ventricular (LV) end-diastolic dimension was enlarged in adult Six5 heterozygous mice, although neither fractioning shortening nor LV wall thickness showed significant differences. Six5 loss may partly contribute to conduction abnormalities in myotonic dystrophy, particularly infraHisian conduction delay, one of the initial phenotypes of adult-onset cardiac conduction abnormalities in DM patients.

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