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@ARTICLE{Karaa:272991,
author = {Karaa, Amel and Bertini, Enrico and Carelli, Valerio and
Cohen, Bruce and Ennes, Gregory M and Falk, Marni J and
Goldstein, Amy and Gorman, Gráinne and Haas, Richard and
Hirano, Michio and Klopstock, Thomas and Koenig, Mary Kay
and Kornblum, Cornelia and Lamperti, Costanza and Lehman,
Anna and Longo, Nicola and Molnar, Maria Judit and Parikh,
Sumit and Phan, Han and Pitceathly, Robert D S and Saneto,
Russekk and Scaglia, Fernando and Servidei, Serenella and
Tarnopolsky, Mark and Toscano, Antonio and Van Hove, Johan L
K and Vissing, John and Vockley, Jerry and Finman, Jeffrey S
and Abbruscato, Anthony and Brown, David A and Sullivan,
Alana and Shiffer, James A and Mancuso, Michelango},
collaboration = {Investigators, MMPOWER-3 Trial},
title = {{G}enotype-specific effects of elamipretide in patients
with primary mitochondrial myopathy: a post hoc analysis of
the {MMPOWER}-3 trial.},
journal = {Orphanet journal of rare diseases},
volume = {19},
number = {1},
issn = {1750-1172},
address = {London},
publisher = {BioMed Central},
reportid = {DZNE-2024-01365},
pages = {431},
year = {2024},
abstract = {As previously published, the MMPOWER-3 clinical trial did
not demonstrate a significant benefit of elamipretide
treatment in a genotypically diverse population of adults
with primary mitochondrial myopathy (PMM). However, the
prespecified subgroup of subjects with disease-causing
nuclear DNA (nDNA) pathogenic variants receiving
elamipretide experienced an improvement in the six-minute
walk test (6MWT), while the cohort of subjects with
mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) pathogenic variants showed no
difference versus placebo. These published findings prompted
additional genotype-specific post hoc analyses of the
MMPOWER-3 trial. Here, we present these analyses to further
investigate the findings and to seek trends and
commonalities among those subjects who responded to
treatment, to build a more precise Phase 3 trial design for
further investigation in likely responders.Subjects with
mtDNA pathogenic variants or single large-scale mtDNA
deletions represented $74\%$ of the MMPOWER-3 population,
with $70\%$ in the mtDNA cohort having either single
large-scale mtDNA deletions or MT-TL1 pathogenic variants.
Most subjects in the nDNA cohort had pathogenic variants in
genes required for mtDNA maintenance (mtDNA replisome), the
majority of which were in POLG and TWNK. The mtDNA replisome
post-hoc cohort displayed an improvement on the 6MWT,
trending towards significant, in the elamipretide group when
compared with placebo (25.2 ± 8.7 m versus 2.0 ± 8.6 m for
placebo group; p = 0.06). The 6MWT results at week 24 in
subjects with replisome variants showed a significant change
in the elamipretide group subjects who had chronic
progressive external ophthalmoplegia (CPEO) (37.3 ± 9.5 m
versus - 8.0 ± 10.7 m for the placebo group; p = 0.0024).
Pharmacokinetic (exposure-response) analyses in the nDNA
cohort showed a weak positive correlation between plasma
elamipretide concentration and 6MWT improvement.Post hoc
analyses indicated that elamipretide had a beneficial effect
in PMM patients with mtDNA replisome disorders, underscoring
the importance of considering specific genetic subtypes in
PMM clinical trials. These data serve as the foundation for
a follow-up Phase 3 clinical trial (NuPOWER) which has been
designed as described in this paper to determine the
efficacy of elamipretide in patients with mtDNA
maintenance-related disorders.Class I
CLINICALTRIALS.NCT03323749.},
keywords = {Humans / Male / Female / DNA, Mitochondrial: genetics /
Mitochondrial Myopathies: drug therapy / Mitochondrial
Myopathies: genetics / Genotype / Adult / Middle Aged /
Oligopeptides: therapeutic use / Elamipretide (Other) /
Mitochondria (Other) / MtDNA maintenance (Other) / MtDNA
multiple deletions (Other) / PMM (Other) / Replisome (Other)
/ arginyl-2,'6'-dimethyltyrosyl-lysyl-phenylalaninamide (NLM
Chemicals) / DNA, Mitochondrial (NLM Chemicals) /
Oligopeptides (NLM Chemicals)},
cin = {Clinical Research (Munich)},
ddc = {610},
cid = {I:(DE-2719)1111015},
pnm = {353 - Clinical and Health Care Research (POF4-353)},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF4-353},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16},
pmc = {pmc:PMC11583740},
pubmed = {pmid:39574155},
doi = {10.1186/s13023-024-03421-5},
url = {https://pub.dzne.de/record/272991},
}