CLCN2 chloride channel mutations in familial hyperaldosteronism type II

Ute I Scholl, Gabriel Stölting, Julia Schewe, Anne Thiel, Hua Tan, Carol Nelson-Williams, Alfred A Vichot, Sheng Chih Jin, Erin Loring, Verena Untiet, Taekyeong Yoo, Jungmin Choi, Shengxin Xu, Aihua Wu, Marieluise Kirchner, Philipp Mertins, Lars C Rump, Ali Mirza Onder, Cory Gamble, Daniel McKenneyRobert W Lash, Deborah P Jones, Gary Chune, Priscila Gagliardi, Murim Choi, Richard Gordon, Michael Stowasser, Christoph Fahlke, Richard P Lifton

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Abstract

Primary aldosteronism, a common cause of severe hypertension 1 , features constitutive production of the adrenal steroid aldosterone. We analyzed a multiplex family with familial hyperaldosteronism type II (FH-II) 2 and 80 additional probands with unsolved early-onset primary aldosteronism. Eight probands had novel heterozygous variants in CLCN2, including two de novo mutations and four independent occurrences of a mutation encoding an identical p.Arg172Gln substitution; all relatives with early-onset primary aldosteronism carried the CLCN2 variant found in the proband. CLCN2 encodes a voltage-gated chloride channel expressed in adrenal glomerulosa that opens at hyperpolarized membrane potentials. Channel opening depolarizes glomerulosa cells and induces expression of aldosterone synthase, the rate-limiting enzyme for aldosterone biosynthesis. Mutant channels show gain of function, with higher open probabilities at the glomerulosa resting potential. These findings for the first time demonstrate a role of anion channels in glomerulosa membrane potential determination, aldosterone production and hypertension. They establish the cause of a substantial fraction of early-onset primary aldosteronism.

OriginalsprogEngelsk
TidsskriftNature Genetics
Vol/bind50
Udgave nummer3
Sider (fra-til)349-354
Antal sider6
ISSN1061-4036
DOI
StatusUdgivet - 1 mar. 2018
Udgivet eksterntJa

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