Evidence map›Paper›PMID 36357392›Full record

Trial reportNature communications2022

An alternative splicing modulator decreases mutant HTT and improves the molecular fingerprint in Huntington's disease patient neurons.

Florian Krach, Judith Stemick, Tom Boerstler, Alexander Weiss, Ioannis Lingos, Stephanie Reischl, Holger Meixner, Sonja Ploetz, Michaela Farrell, Ute Hehr and 3 more

Registry-linked trialOpen access · goldAbstract readClinical Trial, Phase II
In one paragraph

Trial report in Nature communications, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT05111249 (A Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Dose Range Finding Study With Open-Label Extension to Evaluate the Safety, Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacodynamics of LMI070/Branaplam Administered as Weekly Oral Doses in Participants With Early Manifest Huntington's Disease), which is not on this map. Cited by 38 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
38citing papers in PubMed
6.2field-weighted citation impact, top 2% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

NCT05111249 phase2terminatednot on this map

A Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Dose Range Finding Study With Open-Label Extension to Evaluate the Safety, Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacodynamics of LMI070/Branaplam Administered as Weekly Oral Doses in Participants With Early Manifest Huntington's Disease

TypeinterventionalSponsorNovartis PharmaceuticalsRan2021 to 2023Enrolled26ConditionsEarly Manifest Huntington DiseaseArmsBranaplam, Placebo
3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

38 citing papers in PubMed, 64 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Trial
  2. Article
  3. Article
  4. Article
  5. Review
  6. Gene therapy CM-YAPNature cardiovascular research · 2025
    Article
  7. Article
  8. Review
  9. Article
  10. Review
  11. Article
  12. Article
  13. Article
  14. Article
  15. Review
  16. Review
  17. Regulation ofInternational journal of molecular sciences · 2024
    Review
  18. Article
  19. Review
  20. Review
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

13 authors at 4 institutions in 1 country.

Florian KrachDepartment of Stem Cell Biology, University Hospital Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), Erlangen, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-4506-8792
Judith StemickDepartment of Molecular Neurology, University Hospital Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), Erlangen, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-0750-6130
Tom BoerstlerDepartment of Stem Cell Biology, University Hospital Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), Erlangen, Germany.ORCID 0000-0001-9920-9012
Alexander WeissEvotec SE, Hamburg, Germany.
Ioannis LingosEvotec SE, Hamburg, Germany.
Stephanie ReischlDepartment of Stem Cell Biology, University Hospital Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), Erlangen, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-9974-8793
Holger MeixnerDepartment of Molecular Neurology, University Hospital Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), Erlangen, Germany.
Sonja PloetzDepartment of Molecular Neurology, University Hospital Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), Erlangen, Germany.
Michaela FarrellDepartment of Stem Cell Biology, University Hospital Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), Erlangen, Germany.
Ute HehrZentrum für Humangenetik Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany.
Zacharias KohlDepartment of Neurology, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany.
Beate Winner *Department of Stem Cell Biology, University Hospital Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), Erlangen, Germany. beate.winner@fau.de.ORCID 0000-0002-6909-0564
Juergen Winkler *Department of Molecular Neurology, University Hospital Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), Erlangen, Germany. juergen.winkler@uk-erlangen.de.ORCID 0000-0003-0630-9204
Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg · DEEvotec (Germany) · DEUniversity Hospital Regensburg · DEUniversity of Regensburg · DE

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Huntington's disease (HD) is a neurodegenerative disorder caused by poly-Q expansion in the Huntingtin (HTT) protein. Here, we delineate elevated mutant HTT (mHTT) levels in patient-derived cells including fibroblasts and iPSC derived cortical neurons using mesoscale discovery (MSD) HTT assays. HD patients' fibroblasts and cortical neurons recapitulate aberrant alternative splicing as a molecular fingerprint of HD. Branaplam is a splicing modulator currently tested in a phase II study in HD (NCT05111249). The drug lowers total HTT (tHTT) and mHTT levels in fibroblasts, iPSC, cortical progenitors, and neurons in a dose dependent manner at an IC

Indexed as

Huntington DiseaseAlternative SplicingExonsHumansHuntingtin ProteinNeuronsHTT protein, humanHuntingtin Protein

Identifiers

PMID36357392
PMCPMC9649613
OpenAlexW4308713785

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
LicenceCC BY
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.