Genetic Regulation of Surfactant Deficiency

Respiratory Distress Syndrome, Newborn Clinical Trial

Official title:

Genetic Regulation of Surfactant Deficiency in Human Newborn Infants

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT00828243
• Other study ID #: 07-0156
• Secondary ID: R01HL082747
• Status: Completed
• Start date: November 2007
• Est. completion date: March 2013

Study information

• Verified date: June 2021
• Source: Washington University School of Medicine
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Observational

Clinical Trial Summary

Inherited deficiencies in any one of 3 genes (surfactant protein B, surfactant protein C, and ATP-binding cassette transporter A3) can cause neonatal respiratory distress syndrome by disrupting metabolism of the pulmonary surfactant. The investigators will use state of the art methods to link specific changes in the genetic code of each of these genes with disruption of discrete steps in the metabolism of the pulmonary surfactant in human newborn infants. These studies will lead to improved diagnostic capabilities and suggest novel strategies to correct surfactant deficiency in newborn infants.

Description:

Genetic regulation of neonatal pulmonary surfactant deficiency has been suggested by studies of gender, genetic linkage, recurrent familial cases, targeted gene ablation in murine lineages, and by racial disparity in risk of neonatal respiratory distress syndrome. Successful fetal-neonatal pulmonary transition requires production of the pulmonary surfactant, a phospholipid-protein film that lines alveoli and maintains alveolar patency at end expiration. Our goal is to understand the genetic mechanisms that disrupt pulmonary surfactant metabolism and cause neonatal respiratory distress syndrome. Studies in human newborn infants have demonstrated that 3 genes are critical for surfactant metabolism: surfactant protein B (SFTPB), surfactant protein C (SFTPC), and an ATP-binding cassette transporter, ABCA3 (ABCA3). To understand genetic regulatory mechanisms, we will investigate the contribution of variation in each of these genes to risk of neonatal respiratory distress syndrome by testing the hypothesis that genetic variants in the SFTPB, SFTPC, and ABCA3 disrupt pulmonary surfactant metabolism. Using high throughput automated sequencing to genotype, multidimensional protein identification technology to assess quantitative and qualitative differences in surfactant protein B and C expression, in vivo metabolic labeling with stable isotopically labeled precursors to estimate surfactant protein B and C and phospholipid metabolic rates, and cohort sizes that provide statistical power (0.8), we will use race-specific, severity-stratified case-control (N=480) and case comparison (N=250) designs to understand genetically regulated, metabolic mechanisms that cause surfactant deficiency by disrupting expression or altering processing of surfactant proteins B or C or by disrupting surfactant phospholipid composition in human newborn infants. Improved understanding of genetic regulation of surfactant deficiency will suggest novel diagnostic strategies to identify and categorize high risk infants and therapeutic strategies that target discrete steps in pulmonary surfactant metabolism to improve outcomes of infants with neonatal respiratory distress syndrome.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 525
• Est. completion date: March 2013
• Est. primary completion date: March 2013
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: All
• Age group: N/A to 6 Months

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Newborn infants with respiratory distress syndrome who require mechanical ventilation via endotracheal tube or tracheostomy in the first 6 months of life

Exclusion Criteria:

• Infants with conditions likely to cause imminent death

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Respiratory Distress Syndrome, Adult
• Respiratory Distress Syndrome, Newborn

Intervention

Drug:
• Nutrient
We administer stable isotopically labeled precursors of surfactant phospholipids ([1-13C1] acetate) and of surfactant protein-B ([5,5,5-2H3] leucine) to infants with neonatal respiratory distress syndrome. Using mass spectrometry, we measure incorporation of stable isotopically labeled precursors in tracheal aspirates and compare surfactant phospholipid and surfactant protein-B turnover.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
United States	St. Louis Children's Hospital	Saint Louis	Missouri

Sponsors (2)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Washington University School of Medicine	National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI)

Country where clinical trial is conducted

United States, 

References & Publications (13)

Agrawal A, Hamvas A, Cole FS, Wambach JA, Wegner D, Coghill C, Harrison K, Nogee LM. An intronic ABCA3 mutation that is responsible for respiratory disease. Pediatr Res. 2012 Jun;71(6):633-7. doi: 10.1038/pr.2012.21. Epub 2012 Feb 15. — View Citation

Anadkat JS, Kuzniewicz MW, Chaudhari BP, Cole FS, Hamvas A. Increased risk for respiratory distress among white, male, late preterm and term infants. J Perinatol. 2012 Oct;32(10):780-5. doi: 10.1038/jp.2011.191. Epub 2012 Jan 5. — View Citation

Bereman MS, Tomazela DM, Heins HS, Simonato M, Cogo PE, Hamvas A, Patterson BW, Cole FS, MacCoss MJ. A method to determine the kinetics of multiple proteins in human infants with respiratory distress syndrome. Anal Bioanal Chem. 2012 Jun;403(8):2397-402. — View Citation

Garmany TH, Wambach JA, Heins HB, Watkins-Torry JM, Wegner DJ, Bennet K, An P, Land G, Saugstad OD, Henderson H, Nogee LM, Cole FS, Hamvas A. Population and disease-based prevalence of the common mutations associated with surfactant deficiency. Pediatr Re — View Citation

Hamvas A, Heins HB, Guttentag SH, Wegner DJ, Trusgnich MA, Bennet KW, Yang P, Carlson CS, An P, Cole FS. Developmental and genetic regulation of human surfactant protein B in vivo. Neonatology. 2009;95(2):117-24. doi: 10.1159/000153095. Epub 2008 Sep 6. — View Citation

Hamvas A, Nogee LM, Wegner DJ, Depass K, Christodoulou J, Bennetts B, McQuade LR, Gray PH, Deterding RR, Carroll TR, Kammesheidt A, Kasch LM, Kulkarni S, Cole FS. Inherited surfactant deficiency caused by uniparental disomy of rare mutations in the surfac — View Citation

Jackson T, Wegner DJ, White FV, Hamvas A, Cole FS, Wambach JA. Respiratory failure in a term infant with cis and trans mutations in ABCA3. J Perinatol. 2015 Mar;35(3):231-2. doi: 10.1038/jp.2014.236. — View Citation

McBee AD, Wegner DJ, Carlson CS, Wambach JA, Yang P, Heins HB, Saugstad OD, Trusgnich MA, Watkins-Torry J, Nogee LM, Henderson H, Cole FS, Hamvas A. Recombination as a mechanism for sporadic mutation in the surfactant protein-C gene. Pediatr Pulmonol. 200 — View Citation

Tomazela DM, Patterson BW, Hanson E, Spence KL, Kanion TB, Salinger DH, Vicini P, Barret H, Heins HB, Cole FS, Hamvas A, MacCoss MJ. Measurement of human surfactant protein-B turnover in vivo from tracheal aspirates using targeted proteomics. Anal Chem. 2010 Mar 15;82(6):2561-7. doi: 10.1021/ac1001433. — View Citation

Wambach JA, Casey AM, Fishman MP, Wegner DJ, Wert SE, Cole FS, Hamvas A, Nogee LM. Genotype-phenotype correlations for infants and children with ABCA3 deficiency. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2014 Jun 15;189(12):1538-43. doi: 10.1164/rccm.201402-0342OC. — View Citation

Wambach JA, Wegner DJ, Depass K, Heins H, Druley TE, Mitra RD, An P, Zhang Q, Nogee LM, Cole FS, Hamvas A. Single ABCA3 mutations increase risk for neonatal respiratory distress syndrome. Pediatrics. 2012 Dec;130(6):e1575-82. doi: 10.1542/peds.2012-0918. — View Citation

Wambach JA, Wegner DJ, Heins HB, Druley TE, Mitra RD, Hamvas A, Cole FS. Synonymous ABCA3 variants do not increase risk for neonatal respiratory distress syndrome. J Pediatr. 2014 Jun;164(6):1316-21.e3. doi: 10.1016/j.jpeds.2014.02.021. Epub 2014 Mar 20. — View Citation

Wambach JA, Yang P, Wegner DJ, An P, Hackett BP, Cole FS, Hamvas A. Surfactant protein-C promoter variants associated with neonatal respiratory distress syndrome reduce transcription. Pediatr Res. 2010 Sep;68(3):216-20. doi: 10.1203/00006450-201011001-004 — View Citation

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Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Association of specific variants or interactions among variants in SFTPB, SFTPC, and ABCA3 with neonatal respiratory distress syndrome	Statistical association of increased risk of neonatal respiratory distress in term or near term infants with specific genomic variants in SFTPB, SFTPC, and ABCA3	1 week
Secondary	Association of specific variants or interactions among variants in SFTPB, SFTPC, and ABCA3 with fractional synthetic rate and/or fractional catabolic rate of surfactant phospholipids, surfactant protein-B, and surfactant protein-C	Statistical association of quantitative surfactant phospholipid metabolic characteristics with specific genomic variants in SFTPB, SFTPC, and ABCA3	1 week