Abstract
Neurofibromatosis type 2 (NF2) is an autosomal-dominant disorder affecting about 1:33 000 newborns, mainly characterized by the development of tumors of the nervous system and ocular abnormalities. Around 85% of germline NF2 mutations are point mutations. Among them, ∼25% affect splicing and are associated with a variable disease severity. In the context of our NF2 Multidisciplinary Clinics, we have identified a patient fulfilling clinical criteria for the disease and exhibiting a severe phenotype. The patient carries a deep intronic mutation (g. 74409T>A, NG_009057.1) that produces the insertion of a cryptic exon of 167pb in the mature mRNA between exons 13 and 14, resulting in a truncated merlin protein (p.Pro482Profs*39). A mutation-specific antisense phosphorodiamidate morpholino oligomer was designed and used in vitro to effectively restore normal NF2 splicing in patient-derived primary fibroblasts. In addition, merlin protein levels were greatly recovered after morpholino treatment, decreasing patient's fibroblasts in vitro proliferation capacity and restoring cytoeskeleton organization. To our knowledge, this is the first NF2 case caused by a deep intronic mutation in which an in vitro antisense therapeutic approximation has been tested. These results open the possibility of using this approach in vivo for this type of mutation causing NF2.
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Introduction
Neurofibromatosis type 2 (NF2; MIM ID#101000) is an autosomal-dominant cancer syndrome caused by mutations in the NF2 gene, located on chromosome 22q12. NF2 has an incidence of 1 in 33 000 live births showing a wide phenotypic variability and a nearly complete penetrance by the age of 60.1 The NF2 gene codes for the tumor-suppressor protein merlin (69 kDa). Merlin regulates cellular processes that are found to be altered in tumorigenesis including: cell–cell adhesion, cytoskeletal architecture and membrane protein organization.2, 3 NF2 patients are predisposed to develop lesions of the nervous system, eyes and skin. The presence of bilateral vestibular nerve schwannomas is the most distinctive feature of NF2, but patients can develop other clinical manifestations such as schwannomas in other cranial, spinal and peripheral nerves, and also other types of tumors, like meningiomas (both intracranial and intraspinal) and ependymomas (low-grade central nervous system malignancies). Affected individuals can also show peripheral neuropathies (independently of compressive tumors), cataracts, epiretinal membranes, retinal hamartomas and cutaneous tumors, usually schwannomas.4 Over 50% of patients are familial cases and the other 50% bear de novo mutations. A minimum of 25–33% of these NF2 sporadic cases are mosaic,5, 6 which complicates clinical diagnostics and genetic testing.7
NF2 patients exhibit a wide mutational spectrum with mutation type frequencies that vary slightly depending on the presence or absence of mosaicism. Globally, around 15% of germline NF2 mutations are large alterations (from single exon to whole gene deletions) and the remaining 85% are point mutation.1, 8, 9 In general, constitutional nonsense and frameshift NF2 mutations are associated with severe disease manifestations while, missense mutations and large deletions with milder forms of the disease. Furthermore, somatic mosaicism is often associated with mild phenotypes, regardless of the type of the mutation. Around 25% of point mutations seem to affect the correct splicing of the NF2 gene10 and are associated with a variable disease severity.1, 11, 12, 13
Deep intronic mutations are estimated to count 1–5% of constitutional mutations in human mendelian diseases.14 Such mutations have also been found in NF2 (ref. 15) (3 among 292 unrelated NF2 patients, Ludwine Messiaen Personal Communication). The effect of this type of mutations on mRNA is the inclusion of a part of an intron as a consequence of the creation of a novel donor or acceptor site or an exonic splicing enhancer site, which in conjunction with a nearby cryptic splice, defines a cryptic exon that is included by the spliceosome into mature mRNA. Unlike most intragenic mutations, deep intronic mutations do not alter exons and splicing sites of the gene. Thus, there is the possibility to reverse the effect of such mutations by targeting the mutated sequence with specific antisense oligonucleotides (AONs)16, 17 like phosphorodiamidate morpholino oligomers (PMOs). PMOs are analogs of oligonucleotides with a six-membered morpholino ring replacing the ribose or deoxyribose backbone, and uncharged phosphorodiamidate intersubunit linkages. In addition to high binding specificity, stability and resistance to nucleases, PMOs show long-lived activity.18 The masking of a newly created splice site by AONs prevents the splicing machinery from recognizing the cryptic exon and promotes normal splicing. The first indication that AONs could be used as therapeutic agents for genetic diseases was obtained from studies in β-thalassemia, in which abnormal splicing of the β-globin gene due to activation of intronic cryptic sites was corrected using an AON approach.19 Later this technology was used successfully for other diseases like cystic fibrosis20 or more recently for NF1.21 Today, different pre-clinical and clinical splice-modulating therapies using AONs, like restoring open reading frames, influencing alternative splicing or inducing exon inclusion, have been successfully used for many different genetic disorders.16, 17
In this study, we report a NF2 patient with bilateral vestibular schwannoma who was found to bear a deep intronic mutation in the NF2 gene. We reasoned that the effect of this mutation on splicing could be reverted by the use of AONs and decided to test this possibility in vitro by using patient-derived fibroblasts.
Materials and methods
Patient description
The patient studied was born from healthy unrelated parents, and suffered hearing loss in the right ear at the age of 14 because of the development of a vestibular schwannoma. Later on, the patient developed a contralateral vestibular schwannoma causing deafness at the age of 42 and 10 years later, a cerebral schwannoma (a schwannoma of the medulla oblongata). In addition, the patient also developed several intramedullary spinal schwannomas. Following the Manchester Clinical Diagnostic Criteria for NF2,22 this individual was included in a molecular genetic testing program. The patient passed away in 2011, at the age of 52.
Primary cell culture
Peripheral blood lymphocytes were isolated using Lymphocyte Isolation Solution (Rafer, Zaragoza, Spain) according to the manufacturer’s instructions. Short-term lymphocytes cultures were established using RPMI medium (PAA), 10% fetal bovine serum (FBS Gold; PAA, Pasching, Austria), 0.2% Phytohemagglutinin (Invitrogen, Paisley, UK) and penicillin/streptomycin (PAA) at 37 °C and 5% CO2. Lymphocytes were treated with 250 μg/ml puromycin (Sigma-Aldrich, St Louis, MO, USA) 4–6 h before RNA extraction to circumvent the nonsense-mediated decay (NMD) mechanism.23
For fibroblast isolation, skin was cut into small pieces and digested with 160 U/ml collagenase type 1 (Worthington, Lakewood, NJ, USA) and 0.8 U/ml dispase grade 1 (Worthington).24 Fibroblast were grown in Dulbecco’s modified Eagle’s medium (DMEM; PAA), 10% fetal bovine serum (FBS Gold; PAA) and penicillin/streptomycin (PAA) at 37 °C and 5% CO2.
DNA and RNA preparation and RT-PCR
Total DNA from peripheral blood was extracted using Flexigene DNA KIT (Qiagen, Hilden, Germany) and DNA from patient-derived cultured fibroblasts was extracted using QIAamp DNA Mini KIT (Qiagen), according to the manufacturer’s instructions.
RNA was isolated from both short-term lymphocyte cultures and patient-derived primary fibroblasts using Tripure isolation reagent (Roche, Mannheim, Germany). Total RNA (∼3.5 μg) was reverse-transcribed using SuperScript II reverse transcriptase (Invitrogen) and random hexamers (Invitrogen).
Mutation analysis
Mutation characterization in this patient was performed at both RNA and DNA levels, enabling us to gain insight into the nature of the DNA mutation and its effect on mRNA. For mutation analysis, the entire coding region of NF2 was amplified from cDNA in two overlapping PCR fragments (primer sequences available on request). PCR products were sequenced. Alterations detected at cDNA level were also characterized at the genomic level by amplifying and direct sequencing the corresponding DNA region.
The strength of the cryptic exon splice sites was analyzed using Splice Site Prediction by Neural Network from the Berkeley Drosophila Genome Project (http://www.fruitfly.org/seq_tools/splice.html).
Human Genome Variation Society (www.hgvs.org) nomenclature guidelines were used to name the mutation at the DNA level, its effect at the mRNA level, and the predicted resulting protein. The first nucleotide of the ATG translation initiation codon is denoted position +1 according to the NF2 mRNA sequence NM_000268.3 and NM_016418.5.
PMO design and treatment conditions
The 25-mer mutation-specific PMO (MS-PMO) (5′-CATCCCTCAAATCTCTTACCGTTCT-3′) was designed, synthesized and purified by Gene Tools (Philomath, OR, USA). It was designed to target the newly created aberrant splice site by the NF2 mutation. Endo-Porter (Gene Tools) was used to deliver PMOs into cells, according to the manufacturer’s instructions.
For the PMO treatment of patient-derived fibroblasts, cells were seeded at 3 × 105 cells per well, in a six-well plate. The next day, culture medium was replaced with fresh 10% FBS/DMEM medium containing the indicated concentrations of PMOs (see Results section). Immediately after, Endo-Porter (6 μ M) was added and mixed.
Control PMO (CTL-PMO) and Endo-Porter alone were used as control treatments. CTL-PMO was designed to target a distinct part of the genome. Each experiment was performed in triplicate.
Merlin western blot and merlin functional analysis
Cell lysates containing 8 μg of protein were prepared for western blot analysis of total Merlin. Samples were loaded onto 12% SDS-PAGE polyacrilamide gels, electrophoresed and transferred to 0.45 μm PVDF membrane (Whatman, GE Healthcare, Buckinghamshire, UK). The membrane was blocked with 5% nonfat dry milk and incubated overnight at 4 °C with primary antibody, anti-merlin A-19 (1/200, SantaCruz Biothechnology, Inc., Santa Cruz, CA, USA). This was followed by incubation with HRP-conjugated secondary antibody at room temperature for 1 h. The blot was developed using the Immun-Star WesternC kit (BIO-RAD, Hercules, CA, USA). Actin was included as a control for equal protein loading. Actin was detected using an anti-actin antibody, ab49900-100 (1/5000) (Abcam, Cambridge, UK).
Cell proliferation was determined by measuring BrdU incorporation for 3 h in CTL-PMO and MS-PMO treated cells and analyzed by immunofluorescence using mouse anti-BrdU 6 μg/ml (BD Pharmingen, BD Biosciences, Franklin Lakes, NJ, USA).
NF2-muated fibroblasts were stained with Alexa Fluor594 phalloidin (Molecular Probes, Invitrogen, Paisley, UK) following company recommendations to detect and analyze F-actin distribution after CTL-PMO and MS-PMO treatment for 48 h.
Results
NF2 deep intronic mutation characterization
Sequence analysis of PCR products showed the inclusion of a cryptic exon (CEI) of 167 bp in the mature mRNA between exons 13 and 14 in one of the NF2 alleles (c.1446_1477insNG_009057.1:g.74239_74405), resulting in a putative truncating merlin protein (p.Pro482Profs*39; Figure 1a). DNA from the corresponding region was subsequently sequenced to determine the precise mutation that caused the inclusion of the cryptic exon and this showed a single nucleotide change located 240 bp upstream of exon 14 (g.74409T>A, NG_009057.1). This mutation produces a new donor site, which is recognized by the splicing machinery and induces the insertion of a cryptic exon (Figure 1b).
AON reversion of the NF2 deep intronic mutation effect
In order to reverse the effect at mRNA level of this NF2 deep intronic mutation in vitro, we designed a mutation-specific phosphorodiamidate morpholino oligomer (MS-PMO) (Figure 1b). A primary skin-derived fibroblast cell culture from the NF2 patient was established to test the ability of MS-PMO to restore normal splicing for this mutation. We observed that without MS-PMO treatment the percentage of aberrantly-spliced transcript (containing the CEI) was approximately 30% of the total NF2 mRNA (wild-type+aberrantly-spliced transcript). This percentage was not affected by puromycin treatment (data not shown), indicating that NMD mechanism was not influencing the relative percentage of mutated transcripts and probably indicating that the splicing machinery did not always recognize the newly created splicing sites within the intron generating wild-type transcripts from the mutated allele. To set up PMO treatment conditions, first a dose-response experiment was conducted to determine the amount of MS-PMO required for a total correction of mutation effect. Patient-derived fibroblasts were treated with three different PMO concentrations (5, 10 and 20 μ M) for 24 h, and a complete inhibition of cryptic exon inclusion was already observed at the lowest concentration tested (Figure 2a). The specificity of the MS-PMO was assessed by testing in parallel a Control PMO (CTL-PMO) recognizing a different part of the genome. Only MS-PMO had a corrective effect on aberrant splicing, indicating that its effect was sequence-specific (data not shown). To evaluate the duration of the MS-PMO effect on mutation correction, a time course was performed testing 5 and 20 μ M PMO concentrations. Transcriptional analysis and merlin quantification was performed at 24, 48 and 72 h after MS-PMO treatment (Figure 2b). Basal levels of merlin in patient-derived fibroblasts were quite low, despite the fact that only one of the two NF2 alleles was mutated. The levels of merlin in non-transfected patient fibroblasts were very similar to those of PMO delivery vehicle (Endo Porter) treated conditions (data not shown and Figure 2b) A complete decrease in the aberrant transcript was observed at 24 h at both concentrations (data not shown), but protein levels, although starting to recover at 24 h, were not significantly increased until 48 h after MS-PMO treatment (Figures 2b and c). Merlin levels were not affected by CTL-PMO treatment in patient-derived fibroblasts or in fibroblast derived from a non-NF2 individual treated with MS-PMO, further supporting the sequence-specific effect of MS-PMO treatment.
Functional characterization of correct NF2 splicing restoration
Finally, it was important to confirm that correction of aberrant splicing by MS-PMO treatment was also relevant at a functional level. It has been reported that merlin have a role in both actin remodeling and contact-dependent inhibition of proliferation,2, 3, 25 so we decided to measure the effects of MS-PMO treatment on the in vitro fibroblast proliferation capacity and its cytoskeletal reorganization. To determine whether newly restored merlin protein induced by MS-PMO could influence the proliferation capacity of patient-derived fibroblasts we performed a BrdU incorporation assay (Figure 2d). Cell proliferation was reduced by 41% at 24 h and 67% at 48 h comparing MS-PMO and CTL-PMO treatments. No changes were observed in control fibroblasts under the same conditions (data not shown). Next, we examined merlin function through its effect on filamentous actin (F-actin). NF2 patient fibroblasts showed a poorly organized cytoskeleton, both before and after being treated with CTL-PMO (Figure 2e). In contrast, polymerization abnormalities regarding intracellular F-actin were eliminated after MS-PMO treatment with fibroblasts exhibiting well-organized actin stress fibers and abundant apical microvilli (Figure 2e). These results indicated that not only did MS-PMO treatment correct the aberrant splicing but that the correction led to the restoration of merlin levels and activity.
Discussion
We report here the first NF2 case caused by a deep intronic mutation in which an in vitro antisense therapeutic approximation has been tested. This mutation was detected thanks to the double analysis at the RNA and DNA levels that is performed in our NF2 Multidisciplinary Clinics as a routine genetic testing procedure. The reported mutation would probably be missed if analysis at RNA level were not considered. When a DNA-based strategy is applied in second-generation affected individuals from NF2 families there is a 7% of mutations that are not detected.1 However, it is not known the proportion of this unidentified mutations that lie in deep intronic regions (presumably about 1–2%, Ludwine Messiaen personal communication).
We show the suitability and sequence-specific action of using AON strategies to correct aberrant splicing caused by this specific deep intronic mutation in the NF2 gene. In addition, this correction also restored merlin levels and wild-type function in at least some cell physiology processes, such as proliferation and cytoeskeleton organization in patient-derived fibroblasts. However, although restoration of merlin levels in Schwann cells (SCs) and Schwannoma-derived SCs have been shown to also inhibit their proliferation capacity and a reorganization of actin cytoskeleton,25, 26, 27, 28 it should be experimentally proved that an antisense strategy using PMOs is also effective in this cell type, one of the mainly affected in NF2.
This in vitro study using AON technology for NF2 mutations only represent a proof of concept. For a hypothetical use in the clinics, a long path through different phases of preclinical and clinical trials would be required. Recent developments using cell-penetrating peptides conjugated to PMO (PPMO) or the commercially available Vivo-Morpholinos have successfully addressed issues like ensuring efficient AON delivery to affected tissues by improving cellular uptake and avoiding a rapid clearance from the circulation.29, 30 The success of clinical trials using AON technology for other mis-splicing mutations causing Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) and the efficient delivery of AONs in the nervous system of mouse models for Huntington, Alzheimer and spinal muscular atrophy diseases31, 32, 33, 34 are encouraging results and indicate a possible path from bench to bedside for this particular type of mutations causing NF2.
Finally, taking into consideration that constitutional nonsense and frameshift NF2 mutations are associated with a severe form of the disease, and that the NF2 gene is composed by many in-frame exons (10 out of 17 exons), the possibility exists of reducing the severity of these mutations for certain exons by forcing their skipping using antisense technology (as it happens for DMD). However, functional studies need to be performed in order to characterize the preserved function of merlin after forcing the partial or total skipping of each in-frame exon (from both alleles) before knowing how many patients could benefit from this hypothetical approach.
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Acknowledgements
We thank the NF2 patient reported here and his relatives who participated in this study. We thank Juana Fernández-Rodríguez for advice and reagents, Josep Biayna and Bernat Gel for support, Eugeni Aragall and Pilar Armengol for their help with sequencing and also the HUGTiP-IGTP Biobank. This work has been supported by the Institut de Medicina Predictiva i Personalitzada del Càncer (IMPPC); the Government of Catalonia (2009SGR290); and the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation, Carlos III Health Institute (ISCIII-RTICC RD06/0020/1051); (PI11/1609). CL, IB and ES thank the continuous support from the Spanish association of Patients with Neurofibromatosis (Asociación de Afectados de Neurofibromatosis) and the Asociación Española Contra el Cáncer (AECC).
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Castellanos, E., Rosas, I., Solanes, A. et al. In vitro antisense therapeutics for a deep intronic mutation causing Neurofibromatosis type 2. Eur J Hum Genet 21, 769–773 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1038/ejhg.2012.261
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