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Typically, variants alter receptor sensitivity to GABA resulting in either gain- or loss-of-function, which correlates with patient phenotypes. However, it is unclear how another important receptor property, desensitization, contributes to the greater clinical severity of gain-of-function variants.<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>Desensitization properties of 20 gain-of-function GABRB3 variant receptors were evaluated using two-electrode voltage-clamp electrophysiology. The parameters measured included current decay rates and steady-state currents. Selected variants with increased or reduced desensitization were also evaluated using whole-cell electrophysiology in transfected mammalian cell lines.<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>Of the 20 gain-of-function variants assessed, 13 were found to alter receptor desensitization properties. Seven variants reduced desensitization at equilibrium, which acts to worsen gain-of-function traits. Six variants accelerated current decay kinetics, which limits gain-of-function traits. All affected patients displayed severe clinical phenotypes with intellectual disability and difficult-to-treat epilepsy. Nevertheless, variants that reduced desensitization at equilibrium were associated with more severe clinical outcomes. This included younger age of first seizure onset (median 0.5 months), movement disorders (dystonia and dyskinesia), epilepsy of infancy with migrating focal seizures (EIMFS) and risk of early mortality. Variants that accelerated current decay kinetics were associated with slightly milder phenotypes with later seizure onset (median 4 months), unclassifiable developmental and epileptic encephalopathies or Lennox\u2013Gastaut syndrome and no movement disorders.<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>Our study reveals that gain-of-function GABRB3 variants can increase or decrease receptor desensitization properties and that there is a correlation with the degree of disease severity. Variants that reduced the desensitization at equilibrium were clustered in the transmembrane regions that constitute the channel pore and correlated with greater disease severity, while variants that accelerated current decay were clustered in the coupling loops responsible for receptor activation and correlated with lesser severity.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1093\/brain\/awad285","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2023,8,30]],"date-time":"2023-08-30T21:56:15Z","timestamp":1693432575000},"page":"224-239","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":14,"title":["Correlations of receptor desensitization of gain-of-function <i>GABRB3<\/i> variants with clinical severity"],"prefix":"10.1093","volume":"147","author":[{"given":"Susan X N","family":"Lin","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Brain and Mind Centre, School of Medical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine and Health, The University of Sydney , Sydney, New South Wales 2006 , 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