SCN5A Variant E446K Detail

We estimate the penetrance of LQTS for SCN5A E446K around 0% and the Brugada syndrome penetrance around 1%. SCN5A E446K was found in a total of 154 carriers in 3 papers and/or in gnomAD: 0 had Brugada syndrome, 0 had LQTS. E446K is present in 154 alleles in gnomAD. E446K has been functionally characterized in 4 papers. This residue is located in a Mild_Hotspot region for Brugada syndrome and a Non_Hotspot region for LQTS. In silico predictions, functional data (if available), and location in structure are equivalent to phenotyping 10 individuals for Brugada syndrome (1 diagnosed with Brugada syndrome) and 5 individuals for LQTS (0 with LQTS). These data combined with observations of carriers lead us to estimate the LQTS penetrance for SCN5A E446K around 0% (0/164) and the Brugada syndrome penetrance around 1% (1/164).

In Silico Data

PROVEAN PolyPhen-2 BLAST-PSSM REVEL Penetrance Density BrS (%) Penetrance Density LQT3 (%)
-3.63 0.959 0.18 0.732 15 8
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 BrS/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 LQT3 BrS1 Other Other Disease
22338672 2012 1 0 0 1 Post MI TdP
21596231 2011 1 0 0 1 DCM
29325976 2018 1 0 1 0
LITERATURE, COHORT, AND GNOMAD: - 154 154 0 0 -
VARIANT FEATURES ALONE: - 15 14 0 1 - -
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

Peak and late/persistent 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.
PubMed ID Year Cell Type Peak Current (%WT) V1/2 Act. (mV) V1/2 Inact. (mV) Late/Persistent Current (%WT)
29325976 2018
22338672 2012 tsA201 70 -1 -6.16 133
21596231 2011
25102755 2014

E446K has 31 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. 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
431 15
432 14
433 14 R433C, R433H, R433S,
434 13
435 13
436 12
437 11 A437V,
438 11 M438L, M438T,
439 10 E439V, E439K,
440 9
441 8 L441F,
442 8
443 7
444 5 E444fsX14,
445 4 H445D, H445Y, H445Q,
446 0 E446K,
447 4 A447G, c.1339-24G>A, c.1338+2T>A, A447S,
448 5
449 7 Y449C, T449A,
450 8
451 8
452 9 G452D,
453 10 V453M,
454 11
455 11
456 12 V456M,
457 13
458 13 R458C, p.R458VfsX12, R458H,
459 14 S459G,
460 14
461 15 L461V,