Betty Raman

Unmasking Supervillin: SVIL haploinsufficiency causes hypertrophic cardiomyopathy by impairing mechanotransduction and cellular energetics

Background Rare heterozygous loss-of-function (LoF) variants in SVIL, encoding the Z-disk and costameric protein supervillin, have recently been identified as a cause of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM). Although supervillin is implicated in actin-dependent mechanotransduction, the mechanisms linking SVIL deficiency t...