Abstract: PO0467
Renal Injury Biomarkers Are Elevated in Acute Hepatic Porphyria
Session Information
- Anemia: Therapies and Iron Metabolism
November 04, 2021 | Location: On-Demand, Virtual Only
Abstract Time: 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Category: Anemia and Iron Metabolism
- 200 Anemia and Iron Metabolism
Authors
- Ticau, Simina, Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
- Yucius, Kristina, Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
- Karras, Alexandre, Department of Nephrology, Hopital Européen Georges Pompidou, APHP, Paris, France
- Sardh, Eliane, Karolinska Institutet, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
- Gouya, Laurent, CRMR Porphyries, Hôpital Louis Mourier, APHP, Paris, France
- Simon, Amy, Beam Therapeutics, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
- Borodovsky, Anna, Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Background
Acute hepatic porphyria (AHP) is a group of rare genetic diseases caused by defects in enzymes in the heme biosynthesis pathway. Acute intermittent porphyria (AIP) is the most common subtype. In patients with AHP, accumulation of heme pathway intermediates, delta-aminolevulinic acid (ALA) and porphobilinogen (PBG), lead to acute attacks and long-term complications including hypertension and chronic kidney disease which is present in 30-60% of patients with biochemically active AIP. Chronic high excreters (CHE) are a group of patients that carry a genetic mutation and have elevated levels of ALA and PBG but are not experiencing acute attacks.
Methods
Proteomic analysis (Olink® platform) was used to measure 1196 proteins in plasma from consenting AHP patients with recurrent acute attacks (>90% AIP) in the EXPLORE natural history study, the ENVISION Phase 3 study, and CHE patients in the ALN-AS1-001 Phase 1 study at baseline. A separate cohort of healthy controls, age- and gender-matched to EXPLORE patients was also analyzed. Linear regression accounting for age, and sex was used to determine the proteins that were significantly different between AHP patients or CHE patients and controls.
Results
212 plasma proteins were significantly different between healthy controls and patients with AHP. Two proteins with the largest effect sizes, kidney injury molecule-1 (KIM1; 3.4-fold; p-value= 8.0e-13) and matrix metalloproteinase-7 (MMP7; 5-fold; p-value= 1.5e-25) were previously described as biomarkers of renal injury. Three additional kidney injury biomarkers (neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin, cystatin C (CST3) and chitinase-3-like protein 1) showed significant elevations in patients with AHP. Moderate to strong correlations were observed between each of these biomarkers and eGFR (correlation coefficients -0.33 to -0.54). AHP patients with a diagnosis of renal disease demonstrated significantly higher levels of each of these biomarkers than patients without such a diagnosis (p-values <0.01). KIM1, MMP7, and CST3 were also significantly elevated in CHE patients compared to controls.
Conclusion
Renal injury biomarkers may aid in diagnosing and managing kidney disease in patients with AHP suffering from recurrent acute attacks as well as chronic high excreters.
Funding
- Commercial Support –