TY - JOUR
T1 - Muscle microRNAs in the cerebrospinal fluid predict clinical response to nusinersen therapy in type II and type III spinal muscular atrophy patients
AU - Magen, Iddo
AU - Aharoni, Sharon
AU - Yacovzada, Nancy Sarah
AU - Tokatly Latzer, Itay
AU - Alves, Christiano R R
AU - Sagi, Liora
AU - Fattal-Valevski, Aviva
AU - Swoboda, Kathryn J
AU - Katz, Jacob
AU - Bruckheimer, Elchanan
AU - Nevo, Yoram
AU - Hornstein, Eran
N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2022 The Authors. European Journal of Neurology published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of European Academy of Neurology.
PY - 2022/8
Y1 - 2022/8
N2 - Objective: The antisense oligonucleotide nusinersen (spinraza) regulates splicing of the survival motor neuron 2 (SMN2) messenger RNA to increase SMN protein expression and has improved ventilator free survival and motor function outcomes in infantile onset forms of SMA, treated early in the course of the disease. However, the response in later onset forms of SMA is highly variable and dependent on symptom severity and disease duration at treatment initiation. Therefore, we aimed to identify novel noninvasive biomarkers that could predict the response to nusinersen in type II and III SMA patients. Methods: 34 SMA patients were included. We applied next-generation sequencing to identify microRNAs in the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) as candidate biomarkers predicting response to nusinersen. Hammersmith Functional Motor Scale Expanded (HFMSE), was conducted at baseline and 6 months post initiation of nusinersen therapy to assess motor function. Patients changing by ≥ 3 or ≤0 points in the HFMSE total score were considered as responders or non-responders, respectively. Results: Lower baseline levels of two muscle microRNAs (miR-206 and miR-133), alone or in combination, predicted the pre-determined clinical response to nusinersen after 6 months therapy. Moreover, miR-206 levels were inversely correlated with the HFMSE score. Conclusions: Lower miR-206 and miR-133 in the CSF predict more robust clinical response to nusinersen treatment in later onset SMA patients. These novel findings have high clinical relevance for identifying early treatment response to nusinsersen in later onset SMA patients and call to test the ability of miRNAs to predict more sustained long-term benefit.
AB - Objective: The antisense oligonucleotide nusinersen (spinraza) regulates splicing of the survival motor neuron 2 (SMN2) messenger RNA to increase SMN protein expression and has improved ventilator free survival and motor function outcomes in infantile onset forms of SMA, treated early in the course of the disease. However, the response in later onset forms of SMA is highly variable and dependent on symptom severity and disease duration at treatment initiation. Therefore, we aimed to identify novel noninvasive biomarkers that could predict the response to nusinersen in type II and III SMA patients. Methods: 34 SMA patients were included. We applied next-generation sequencing to identify microRNAs in the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) as candidate biomarkers predicting response to nusinersen. Hammersmith Functional Motor Scale Expanded (HFMSE), was conducted at baseline and 6 months post initiation of nusinersen therapy to assess motor function. Patients changing by ≥ 3 or ≤0 points in the HFMSE total score were considered as responders or non-responders, respectively. Results: Lower baseline levels of two muscle microRNAs (miR-206 and miR-133), alone or in combination, predicted the pre-determined clinical response to nusinersen after 6 months therapy. Moreover, miR-206 levels were inversely correlated with the HFMSE score. Conclusions: Lower miR-206 and miR-133 in the CSF predict more robust clinical response to nusinersen treatment in later onset SMA patients. These novel findings have high clinical relevance for identifying early treatment response to nusinsersen in later onset SMA patients and call to test the ability of miRNAs to predict more sustained long-term benefit.
KW - Biomarkers
KW - Cerebrospinal Fluid
KW - Muscle microRNAs
KW - Nusinersen
KW - Response predictors
KW - Spinal muscular atrophy
KW - miR-133
KW - miR-206
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U2 - https://doi.org/10.1111/ene.15382
DO - https://doi.org/10.1111/ene.15382
M3 - مقالة
C2 - 35510740
SN - 1351-5101
VL - 29
SP - 2420
EP - 2430
JO - European Journal of Neurology
JF - European Journal of Neurology
IS - 8
ER -