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A novel missense COL9A3 variant in a pedigree with multiple lumbar disc herniation
Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery and Research volume 19, Article number: 19 (2024)
Abstract
Trp3 allele in COL9A3 gene has been widely studied in populations with intervertebral disc disease. We identified a novel pathogenic variant in COL9A3 gene in a pedigree with multiple lumbar disc herniation (LDH). The proband was a 14-year-old boy who developed LDH at the L4/5 and L5/S1 spinal segments. His father, paternal aunt and grandfather were diagnosed with LDH at an age of 35, 30 and 23, respectively. By applying whole exome sequencing, a heterozygous missense variant (c.1150C > T, p.Arg384Trp) in COL9A3 was identified. According to the ACMG guidelines, this variant is predicted to be pathogenic. In addition, prediction tools found COL9A3 protein of this variant a reduced stability, some changed charge properties, and an altered spatial conformation. Findings expanded the mutational spectrum of LDH and contributed to the understanding of COL9A3 in the pathogenesis of LDH.
Introduction
Lumbar disc herniation (LDH) is a common lumbar spinal disorder that leads to back and leg pain [1]. Reportedly, the incidence rate of LDH is 1–3% in general populations, adding heavy socio-economical burdens in communities [2]. Etiological studies revealed that LDH is a genetically predominant disorder [3]. A number of genes related to disc structural components, inflammatory factors, and matrix remodelling proteases have been found to be associated with the occurrence of LDH [4, 5]. For example, COL9A3 gene (Collagen type IX α3) has been repeatedly identified in different populations [6].
Collagen IX is a heterotrimeric protein encoded by COL9A1, COL9A2, and COL9A3 genes [7]. It serves as an organizing bridge, crosslinking collagens and non-collagenous components in articular cartilage and disc extracellular matrix (ECM) [8]. COL9A3 gene locates in chromosome 20q13.3 and encodes the α3 (IX) chain of collagen IX, which is a component of nucleus pulposus (NP) [9]. An early study of COL9A3 on disc diseases found that patients with the Trp3 (tryptophan) allele, also known as c.307C > T, p.Arg103Trp (rs61734651), had 2.7-fold higher risks of being diagnosed with lumbar spinal disease [10]. The minor allele frequency (MAF) of this single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) was less than 0.05 in multiple datasets, GnomAD_exome (0.047), ExAC (0.048) and 1000 Genomes (0.022). Later on, while some independent studies demonstrated that Trp3 was statistically associated with the increased risk of lumbar disc diseases [11, 12], some others failed to relate it with disc diseases. For instance, the Trp3 allele in COL9A3 was found not clustered in lumbar disc degeneration [13], and the genotype of Trp3 allele was not related to clinical symptoms [14]. In addition, a number of meta-analysis studies did not observe the association between the COL9A3 Trp3 polymorphism and disc degeneration [15].
Since previous population-based case–control studies on COL9A3 gene have obtained inconsistent results [11,12,13,14,15], the underlying pathogenic mechanism of COL9A3 is not fully understood to date. Here, we reported a clinical pedigree of LDH with significant genetic characteristics and involvement of multiple lumbar discs. By applying whole exome sequencing (WES), we identified a novel pathogenic single nucleotide variant (SNV) of COL9A3. Our findings provide insights of understanding the function of COL9A3 in the pathogenesis of LDH.
Materials and methods
Case reports
The proband in this study was a 14-year-old boy who had low back pain and numbness in the lower extremities for half a year. The father, who accompanied for his son’s consultation, had radiculopathy in the left lower extremity for over two decades. The proband’s paternal aunt and grandfather were also clinically diagnosed with symptomatic LDH, with available MR images for confirmation. No other skeletal abnormality was observed in this family on radiological images. Written consent for each family member was obtained. This study was approved by the authors’ institutional ethic board.
Whole exome sequencing, variant identification and validation
After blood sample collection, genomic DNA of the proband, his father, paternal aunt and grandfather were extracted using the Blood Genome Column Medium Extraction Kit (Kangweishiji, China). The extracted DNA samples were subjected to quality controlling using Qubit 2.0 fluorimeter and electrophoresis with 0.8% agarose gel. Whole exome library was constructed using Roche Nimble Gen Seq EZ Exome Enrichment Kit V2.0 and Seq EZ Exome Enrichment Kit V2.0 capture probes (Roche, USA). High-throughput sequencing was performed on a Novaseq 6000 instrument (CHIGENE, Beijing, China) [16]. Quality control of whole exome sequencing data, variants calling and variant annotation was performed in the same institution.
Variant prioritization was performed based on guidelines released by ACMG (The American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics). First, co-segregation analysis was performed to exclude SNVs contradictory to the phenotypic data. SNVs were analysed under the assumptions of Mendelian dominant inheritance, recessive inheritance and sex-linked inheritance. Second, only rare variants with MAF < 1% were included for further selection [17, 18]. Candidate variants were selected based on the 1000 Genomes (https://www.internationalgenome.org), the Exome Sequencing Project (ESP), the Exome Aggregation Consortium (ExAC, http://exac.broadinstitute.org), Allele Frequency Aggregator (ALFA) and the Genome Aggregation Database (gnomAD, https://gnomad.broadinstitute.org). Third, synonymous variants and non-coding region variants were excluded. In silico prediction tools were applied to analyse pathogenicity of identified missense variants (Sorting Intolerant From Tolerant (SIFT), Polymorphism Phenotyping v2 (Polyphen2), Multivariate Analysis of Protein Polymorphism (MAPP), Mutation Taster, Mendelian Clinically Applicable Pathogenicity (M-CAP), Rare Exome Variant Ensemble Learner (REVEL) and Combined Annotation Dependent Depletion (CADD)) [19,20,21,22,23,24,25]. The deleterious effects of splice variants were predicted by MaxEntScan and dbscSNV [26, 27]. Next, evolutionary conservatism was analysed by phastCONS, phyloP and Genetic Evolutionary Rate Profiling (GERP) [28,29,30]. At last, protein function, GO (Gene ontology) annotations, tissue-specific distribution and existing literature were searched to evaluate the remaining SNVs.
Sanger sequencing was performed to validate the identified candidate variants. Sanger sequencing was performed with these primers:
Forward primer 5′-CAGGCGTCCCTGTGAGTATC-3′,
Reverse primer 5′-CATCAAGGCAACCAAATGCCA-3′.
The RefSeq accession numbers of the transcript and the corresponding protein isoform of COL9A3 we used for mutation nomenclature were NM_001853.4 and NP_001844.3, respectively.
Results
Clinical characterization of the pedigree with multiple lumbar disc herniation
The proband (height 1.65 m, weight 55.6 kg) is a 14-year-old Chinese boy suffering from low back pain and numbness in the lower limbs for 6 months before consultation. Magnetic resonance (MR) imaging revealed LDH at L4/5 and L5/S1 spinal segments (Fig. 1A). Growth and development of the proband were normal in adolescence. The proband did not experience waist trauma or excessive physical labour within 6 months before the onset of clinical symptoms. Blood biochemistry measurements and radiographs of limbs did not present any abnormality on the proband. A follow-up investigation of the LDH-related clinical symptoms and radiographs was carried out on the proband’s immediate family members. The proband’s father, who suffered from left lower limb radiculopathy for decades, had L3/4 and L4/5 LDH based on his lumbar spine MR images (Fig. 1B). The proband’s father, paternal aunt and grandfather had back pain and radicular leg pain, which were consistent with MR findings. They were clinically diagnosed with LDH at an age of 35, 30 and 23, respectively (Fig. 1C). None of them reported a history of waist injury before the onset of LDH‐related symptoms nor any other abnormality in the musculoskeletal system, except for the proband’s grandfather, who had degenerative kyphosis after 60 years old.
Identification of a novel COL9A3 missense variant in the LDH family
We performed WES from four members (proband III-I, affected father II-2 and paternal aunt II-1, and unaffected mother II-3) to identify the candidate gene for the phenotypic manifestation of LDH. The work flow is summarized in Fig. 1D. A total of 3624 SNVs were identified after exclusion of non-genic and polymorphic variants. SNVs which did not co-segregate with the phenotype and were more than 1% frequency in the public genomes databases were excluded. Under the assumption of Mendelian dominant inheritance, 179 SNVs were identified. Synonymous variants and variants in non-coding region were then excluded, resulting in 69 SNVs. Besides, several in silico prediction tools invariably predicted that seven of the SNVs might cause damage to the protein, and no SNV near splice site had deleterious effects on the protein. In view of the protein function, GO annotations, tissue-specific distribution and the facts in published literatures, a novel heterozygous missense variant (c.1150C > T, p.Arg384Trp) in COL9A3 was identified, and further confirmed by Sanger sequencing (Fig. 1E).
The MAF of this SNP was less than 0.01 in different databases, ESP (0.00), 1000 Genomes (0.00), ALFA (0.00), GnomAD_exome (0.00004) and ExAC (0.00003). This variant was predicted to be pathogenic by in silico prediction tools, Provean (3.16), SIFT (0.005), Polyphen2_HDIV (1.0), MutationTaster (0.999494), M-CAP (0.705) and REVEL (0.725). In addition, with a CADD score > 20, this variant was also evaluated to be deleterious in GERP, phyloP and phastCons software. According to the variant interpretation guideline of ACMG (PM2, PP1, PP2, PP3 and PP4), this variant (c.1150C > T) was classified as “likely pathogenic” variant [31].
Change of charge properties and instability of COL9A3 protein with p.Arg384Trp variant
The p.Arg384Trp variant is situated within the collagenous domain, resulting in the substitution of arginine with tryptophan in amino acid sequence (Fig. 2A). Protein sequence alignment revealed that this locus is highly conserved among common species (Fig. 2B). Furthermore, the impacts of the p.Arg384Trp variant on the structure, function, and stability of COL9A3 were analysed using Swiss-Model (Fig. 2C) [32,33,34]. According to the prediction, the variant at this site changed the charge property and hydrophilicity of COL9A3 protein due to the substitution of arginine (Basic amino acid) with tryptophan (Aromatic hydrophobic amino acid). In addition, the prediction result in I-Mutant2.0 revealed a decreased stability of COL9A3 protein (Fig. 2D) [35].
Discussion
Pedigree-based screening can identify pathogenic genes for heritable LDH. In this study, LDH patients were characterized by early-aged onset, multi-segment disc involvement, dominant inheritance, and the absence of extra-discal deformities in the musculoskeletal system. The clinical significance of the identified COL9A3 variant (c.1150C > T, p.Arg384Trp) has not been previously reported. Our findings suggested that this variant is disease-causing rather than a susceptibility factor for LDH.
Collagen IX plays an important role in forming and stabilizing the collagen matrix in the disc. SNPs that result in tryptophan polymorphisms in collagen IX genes, such as Trp2 allele (p.Gln326Trp) in COL9A2 and Trp3 allele in COL9A3, have been linked to an increased risk of lumbar disc disease in different populations [10, 36]. We summarized the phenotypes, sampling regions, sample sizes and statistical results of COL9A3 pathogenic variants in intervertebral disc diseases (Table 1) and found that results from different studies were inconsistent. In previous research, Trp3 variant (c.307C > T, p.Arg103Trp) was the only pathogenic variant site identified in COL9A3 among populations (Fig. 2A).
To date, various mechanisms have been proposed to explain COL9A3 dysfunction leading to disc disease. For example, Trp3 allele in COL9A3 increases the proportion of tryptophan in the collagen, which subsequently alters the triple helical structure of the protein. This substitution may also disrupt the process of lysyl oxidase-catalysed crosslinking, increase the risk of disc instability, and eventually lead to the occurrence of disc diseases [37]. Also, silencing the expression of COL9A3 can activate the MAPK pathway and downstream apoptosis-related factors, resulting in attenuated NP cells proliferation and promoted cell apoptosis [51]. In animal models, Col9a3 deficient mice exhibit abnormalities in the disc and cartilage, including shortened body height, impaired maturation of articular cartilage, and calcified epiphyseal cartilage [52]. In addition, absence of collagen IX may be related to premature disc degeneration with annular lesions through disrupting the Ihh-PTHrP pathway in ageing mice [53].
Although COL9A3 gene has been repeatedly studied, the underlying mechanism and its effects on the pathogenesis of LDH remain unclear. Results of this study further evidenced that COL9A3 plays an important role in LDH. A new genetic variant was identified in this report, but further studies are needed to explore the pathogenesis of LDH with the COL9A3 pathogenic variant (c.1150C > T, p.Arg384Trp) and develop possible treatment strategies.
Conclusions
In this report, we identified a novel missense pathogenic variant, which is conserved among common species, in a family with multi-segment LDH. The identified COL9A3 variant was predicted to have detrimental effects on the structure and stability of COL9A3. We provided new evidence to support an association between COL9A3 pathogenic variants and LDH, and extended the mutational spectrum of LDH.
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Jiang, L., Wang, C., Ye, Z. et al. A novel missense COL9A3 variant in a pedigree with multiple lumbar disc herniation. J Orthop Surg Res 19, 19 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13018-023-04481-2
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