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Electrophysiological characteristics of R47W and A298T mutations in CLC-1 of myotonia congenita patients and evaluation of clinical features

  • Chin, Hyung Jin (Department of Physiology, Seoul National University College of Medicine) ;
  • Kim, Chan Hyeong (Department of Physiology, Seoul National University College of Medicine) ;
  • Ha, Kotdaji (Department of Physiology, Seoul National University College of Medicine) ;
  • Shin, Jin Hong (Department of Neurology, Research Institute for Convergence of Biomedical Research and Technology, Pusan University Yangsan Hospital) ;
  • Kim, Dae-Seong (Department of Neurology, Research Institute for Convergence of Biomedical Research and Technology, Pusan University Yangsan Hospital) ;
  • So, Insuk (Department of Physiology, Seoul National University College of Medicine)
  • Received : 2017.04.13
  • Accepted : 2017.04.19
  • Published : 2017.07.01
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Abstract

Myotonia congenita (MC) is a genetic disease that displays impaired relaxation of skeletal muscle and muscle hypertrophy. This disease is mainly caused by mutations of CLCN1 that encodes human skeletal muscle chloride channel (CLC-1). CLC-1 is a voltage gated chloride channel that activates upon depolarizing potentials and play a major role in stabilization of resting membrane potentials in skeletal muscle. In this study, we report 4 unrelated Korean patients diagnosed with myotonia congenita and their clinical features. Sequence analysis of all coding regions of the patients was performed and mutation, R47W and A298T, was commonly identified. The patients commonly displayed transient muscle weakness and only one patient was diagnosed with autosomal dominant type of myotonia congenita. To investigate the pathological role of the mutation, electrophysiological analysis was also performed in HEK 293 cells transiently expressing homo-or heterodimeric mutant channels. The mutant channels displayed reduced chloride current density and altered channel gating. However, the effect of A298T on channel gating was reduced with the presence of R47W in the same allele. This analysis suggests that impaired CLC-1 channel function can cause myotonia congenita and that R47W has a protective effect on A298T in relation to channel gating. Our results provide clinical features of Korean myotonia congenita patients who have the heterozygous mutation and reveal underlying pathophyological consequences of the mutants by taking electrophysiological approach.

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