KCNH2 Variant K28E Detail

We estimate the penetrance of LQTS for KCNH2 K28E is 26%. This variant was found in a total of 14 carriers in 1 papers or gnomAD, 2 had LQTS. K28E is not present in gnomAD. K28E has been functionally characterized in 2 papers. This residue is located in a Hotspot region for LQT2. In silico predictions, functional data (if available), and location in structure are equivalent to observing 4 individuals with LQT2 and 6 unaffected individuals.These data combined with observations of carriers lead us to estimate the LQTS penetrance for KCNQ1 K28E around 26% (6/24).

In Silico Data

PROVEAN PolyPhen-2 BLAST-PSSM REVEL Penetrance Density (%)
-2.22 0.43 0 0.865 53
PROVEAN scores less than -2 are considered deleterious. REVEL scores higher than 0.5 or 0.75 are considered likely pathogenic (higher sensitivity with the former cutoff, higher specificity with the latter cutoff). A PolyPhen-2 score of 0.85 or greater is considered likely pathogenic. BLAST-PSSM reflects the evolutionary conservation of residue substitutions, more negative numbers indicate fewer observations of the specific substitution than is expected. Penetrance density is our previously published method to calculate the average LQTS probability density in a shell of residues surrounding a residue of interest (Kroncke et al. 2019).

Reported Carrier Data

PubMed ID Year Carriers Unaffected LQT2 Other Disease
15699249 2005 14 12 2
LITERATURE, COHORT, AND GNOMAD: - 14 12 2 -
VARIANT FEATURES ALONE: - 10 6 4 -
Summary totals might not agree with the literature table because of duplicate patients, which were excluded from the total counts. We do not distinguish here between multiple missense codons. Missense variants are combined across degenerate codon substitutions since codon-level data were not consistently available for curation.

Functional Data Homozygously Collected

Steady state (S.S.) and peak tail current are relative % to wildtype (100% being no different from wildtype). V0.5 act/inact are the voltages at which half of the maximal current is reached during an activation and inactivation protocol, each is in units of mV and relative to wildtype. Recovery from inactivation (Rec. inact.) and deactivation time (Deactivation) are the ratio of characteristic time constants with wildtype (unitless).

PubMed ID Cell Type S.S Peak (%WT) Peak Tail IKr (%WT) V1/2 Act. V1/2 Inact. Recov. Inact. Deactivation (%WT)
15699249 HEK293 34 None -15.5 0.692307692 0.320809249
21536673 Xeno 10 -2.7 7.8 None 0.666666667

Functional Data Heterozygously Collected

Functional parameters are the same as defined above.

PubMed ID Cell Type S.S Peak (%WT) Peak Tail IKr (%WT) V1/2 Act. V1/2 Inact. Deactivation (%WT)
15699249 HEK293 69 None None 0.919075145
21536673 Xeno None None None

K28E has 52 previously observed neighbors within 15 angstroms

A residue within a folded protein on average has nearest neighbors that fall roughly into two shells: a "nearest" neighbor around 5-6 angstroms and a second shell around 11 angstroms. NOTE: some residues appear multiple times at different distances since the functional KV11.1 channel (protein product of KCNH2/hERG) is a homotetramer and occasionally the same residue from multiple subunits is present within the 15A window. All variants shown in the rightmost column have been observed in at least one individual in the literature or gnomAD.

Neighbor Distance (Angstroms) Variants Observed in Individuals
28 0 K28E,
27 5 R27X, R27P,
129 5 F129C,
47 5 G47V, G47C,
128 6 N128S,
130 6 E130K,
48 6
29 6 F29L, F29L, F29S, F29V, F29L,
51 7
45 7 N45K, N45D, N45K,
26 7 S26I,
50 9 E50X,
131 9 V131fsX, V131L, V131L,
30 9 I30Del, I30T,
108 9 C108Y,
127 9
49 9 C49R, C49G,
22 9 F22S, F22Y,
46 10 D46E, D46Y, D46E,
25 10 Q25P,
109 10 L109Q, L109X, L109P,
52 10 C52W,
111 10 D111V,
110 10 V110A,
44 11 C44F, C44X, C44W,
23 11
106 11 F106L, F106L, F106L, F106V,
126 11
43 12 Y43C, Y43D,
98 12
24 12
53 12 G53S, G53R,
19 13 I19F,
100 13 R100G, R100P, R100Q,
31 13 I31S,
107 13 L107P,
112 13 V112M,
69 13 L69P, L69Del,
21 14
113 14 V113Del,
56 14 R56Q,
59 14
93 14 K93X, K93R,
96 14 I96T, I96V,
54 14 Y54X, Y54N,
18 14 I18M,
66 14 C66G, C66R, C66Y,
97 15
94 15 V94A, V94L, V94L,
95 15 E95K, E95G,
55 15 S55L,
41 15 V41A,