SCN5A Variant E161K Detail

We estimate the penetrance of LQTS for SCN5A E161K around 6% and the Brugada syndrome penetrance around 68%. SCN5A E161K was found in a total of 13 carriers in 12 papers and/or in gnomAD: 11 had Brugada syndrome, 1 had LQTS. E161K is present in 1 alleles in gnomAD. E161K has been functionally characterized in 15 papers. This residue is located in a 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 (4 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 E161K around 6% (1/23) and the Brugada syndrome penetrance around 68% (15/23).

In Silico Data

PROVEAN PolyPhen-2 BLAST-PSSM REVEL Penetrance Density BrS (%) Penetrance Density LQT3 (%)
-3.45 0.999 -2.88 0.961 67 2
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
15910881 2005 11 0 9 2 SSS, conduction disease
12106943 2002 1 0 1 0
16764707 2006 10 0 10 0
19843921 2009 1 0 1 0
20031634 2009 11 0 7 0
20386770 2010 1 1 0 0 AV block
21273195 2011 8 0 8 0
19251209 2009 1 0 1 0
20129283 2010 1 0 1 0
20129283 2010 1 0 1 0
29574140 2018 1 0 1 0
30059973 2018 2 2 0 0
LITERATURE, COHORT, AND GNOMAD: - 13 1 1 11 -
VARIANT FEATURES ALONE: - 15 11 0 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

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)
29574140 2018
30059973 2018
12106943 2002
16764707 2006
19843921 2009
20031634 2009
20386770 2010
21273195 2011
20539757 2010
19251209 2009
15878172 2005
20129283 2010
20129283 2010
15910881 2005 tsA201 40 11.9 0.9
20384651 2010 HEK 23 19.1 1.9

E161K has 50 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
154 13 P154L,
223 13 V223L,
859 14
153 15
149 13
147 7
164 6 F164L,
209 14 N209T, N209S,
143 11
156 9 W156R, W156X,
158 6 K158T,
163 7 c.486delC,
216 15 S216L, S216X,
169 13
222 8 R222X, R222L, R222Q,
155 11
150 12
157 7 T157I,
160 5 p.V160fs,
205 12 c.612-2A>G, Y205X,
206 13
166 10 A166T,
144 8
855 15
148 10
165 7
210 13 I210T,
204 9 A204T, c.611+1G>A, A204V, c.611+3_611+4dupAA,
162 5 Y162C, Y162H,
146 13 V146A, V146M,
203 13
208 8 E208K,
168 10
202 15 I202T,
152 15 D152N,
141 13 I141N, I141V,
167 11
161 0 E161K, E161Q,
201 12
219 9 p.R219HfsX11, c.656_657insATTCA, R219H, R219C,
225 13 R225Q, R225W,
151 9
218 12
159 7 Y159C, Y159X,
207 9
212 14 L212P, L212Q,
200 13
145 12
140 12
220 14 T220I,