Pharmacological chaperones restore proteostasis of epilepsy-associated GABAA receptor variants
Wang, Y.-J.; Seibert, H.; Ahn, L. Y.; Schaffer, A. E.; Mu, T.-W.
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Recent advances in genetic diagnosis identified variants in genes encoding GABAA receptors as causative for genetic epilepsy. Here, we selected eight disease-associated variants in the 1 subunit of GABAA receptors causing mild to severe clinical phenotypes and showed that they are loss of function, mainly by reducing the folding and surface trafficking of the 1 protein. Furthermore, we sought client protein-specific pharmacological chaperones to restore the function of pathogenic receptors. Applications of positive allosteric modulators, including Hispidulin and TP003, increase the functional surface expression of the 1 variants. Mechanism of action study demonstrated that they enhance the folding and assembly and reduce the degradation of GABAA variants without activating the unfolded protein response in HEK293T cells and human iPSC-derived neurons. Since these compounds cross the blood-brain barrier, such a pharmacological chaperoning strategy holds great promise to treat genetic epilepsy in a GABAA receptor-specific manner.
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