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C505S

Category 4 — Stable Fold, Function DisruptedUncertain significanceTransmembrane · predictedSource card
CysteineSerine at position 505 · Transmembrane helix 7 · WFS1 (Wolframin)

Interactive 3D Structure

Wild-type reference
Wild-type C505 — hydrogen bond to V509
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DynaMut2 mutant · C505S
Mutant S505 — hydrogen bond to F886 lost (2 contacts lost)
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Bond changes · DynaMut2 interaction analysis

2 lost0 gained11 preserved
Interaction typeWild-type partnerMutant partnerStatus
Hydrogen bondS502S502Preserved
Hydrogen bondY508Y508Preserved
Hydrogen bondV509V509Preserved
Hydrogen bondF886F886Preserved
Polar contactN500N500Preserved
Polar contactS502S502Preserved
Polar contactV503V503Preserved
Polar contactL507Lost
Polar contactY508Y508Preserved
Polar contactV509V509Preserved
Van der WaalsS502S502Preserved
Van der WaalsL507L507Preserved
Van der WaalsF886Lost

Lost / gained / preserved interatomic contacts at the variant residue, from the DynaMut2 (Arpeggio) interaction analysis of the wild-type and energy-minimized mutant structures.

Computational Predictions

DynaMut2 ΔΔG
-1.71kcal/mol
Destabilising — moderate
AlphaMissense
0.366
ambiguous
AlphaFold pLDDT
82
model confidence
Schema
Cat 4
Category 4 — Stable Fold, Function Disrupted
ΔΔG confidence: Reduced confidence · Transmembrane
  • transmembrane position; predictor benchmarked on soluble proteins

This variant sits in the transmembrane band. The stability value was computed with a predictor benchmarked on water-soluble proteins. Published benchmarks of ddG predictors on membrane proteins report correlation below 0.4. Treat the magnitude as unreliable and the sign as weak evidence only.

Do not rank this value against a variant from a different region on ΔΔG alone.

Clinical Evidence

ClinVar classificationUncertain significance
Review statuscriteria provided, single submitter
Associated conditions
Population frequency (gnomAD v4)Ultra-rare · AF 0.0027%
cDNA changec.1514G>C
ClinVar accessionVCV001013977
Last evaluated2024/07/30 00:00

Observed at very low frequency in gnomAD.

Classified for1★ unverified submission

ClinVar classifies this variant as Uncertain significance, but does not state what it is classified for. ClinVar records no condition for this variant. A classification without a phenotype and an inheritance mode cannot be read as a statement about Wolfram syndrome risk or severity.

  • Phenotype scope is interpretation of submitted records. The computed values on this card (AlphaMissense, DynaMut2 ΔΔG, pLDDT) are measurements of the model, not of a patient.
  • Presentation cannot be generalised from neighbouring variants: one nucleotide over can present very differently. Structural similarity supports a mechanistic hypothesis, never a phenotype claim.

Review status: 1★ single submitter. ClinVar "conditions" is the union of all submissions; 0–1★ entries are submitted conditions, not documented phenotypes.

Population frequency
Global (all ancestries)
AF 0.0027% · 40 / 1,459,102 alleles
Homozygotes
0
Highest-frequency population
East Asian · AF 0.101%

Highest in East Asian: AF 0.101% (40 of 39,696 alleles), 36.8x the global figure. The global AF describes the general population, not the at-risk group.

No homozygotes reported in gnomAD v4. For a recessive allele this is expected and is not, on its own, evidence either way.

Ancestry groupAllele freq.AC / ANHom.Carrier est.
East Asian0.101%40 / 39,6960~1 in 500

Source: gnomAD r4, retrieved 2026-08-21. Values are allele frequencies. The carrier estimate is derived from the allele frequency (Hardy-Weinberg, ~2·AF) and is an approximation, not a published figure — where a published carrier frequency exists it outranks this column and is cited on the card.

Full Variant Card

WFS1 Wolframin — C505S Variant Card

Molecular Atlas Pilot · RareResearch.AI · Generated by wolfram-variant-card skill

Cysteine → Serine at position 505. Transmembrane helix 7. ClinVar Uncertain significance, AlphaMissense 0.366, DynaMut2 ΔΔG -1.71 kcal/mol (destabilising).


Identity

FieldValue
VariantC505S (p.Cysteine505Serine)
DNA changec.1514G>C
Gene · ProteinWFS1 · Wolframin (890 aa)
UniProtO76024 · WFS1_HUMAN
ClinVar accessionVCV001013977
Amino acid changeCysteine (C) → Serine (S)

Structural Context

FieldValue
AlphaFold modelAF-O76024-F1, v6
pLDDT at residue 50582.44 — well-folded
DomainTransmembrane helix 7
Position contextInside Transmembrane helix 7 · position 505 is bilayer-embedded
IDR flagNo — pLDDT above 50 threshold

UniProt features at this position:

(none catalogued)

Position 505 sits in a transmembrane helix (Transmembrane helix 7). Wolframin has eleven such helices anchoring it in the ER membrane; substitutions inside the bilayer-embedded segments can disrupt helix packing, lipid contacts, and the overall ER topology of the protein. The wild-type residue is thiol (cysteine — disulfide-capable, free -SH); the mutant is small polar (serine — hydroxyl). The chemistry shift implies altered local packing, hydrogen-bonding, and/or electrostatics at this site.


Computational Predictions

AlphaMissense

FieldValue
am_pathogenicity0.3662
am_classambiguous
InterpretationLikely benign (threshold 0.564)

DynaMut2

FieldValue
ΔΔG (kcal/mol)-1.71 (Destabilising)
Job ID178094712322
Result URLJob 178094712322 · retrieved 2026-06-08 — result self-hosted by RareResearch.AI (Biosig no longer serves this page)

Clinical Evidence

Inheritance and scope

Uncertain significance — phenotype scope not stated in ClinVar

ClinVar classifies this variant as Uncertain significance, but does not state what it is classified for. ClinVar records no condition for this variant. A classification without a phenotype and an inheritance mode cannot be read as a statement about Wolfram syndrome risk or severity.

Phenotype scope is interpretation of submitted records. The computed values on this card (AlphaMissense, DynaMut2 ΔΔG, pLDDT) are measurements of the model, not of a patient. Presentation cannot be generalised from neighbouring variants: one nucleotide over can present very differently. Structural similarity supports a mechanistic hypothesis, never a phenotype claim.

FieldValue
ClassificationUncertain significance
Review statuscriteria provided, single submitter
Last evaluated2024/07/30 00:00
InheritanceInheritance pattern not specified in ClinVar entry; WFS1 has both AD and AR presentations.
WFS1 variant landscapeC505S is 1 of ~326 pathogenic-spectrum variants in WFS1 (out of 2,243 catalogued in ClinVar)

(no conditions catalogued)


Research Path Decision Tree

ΔΔG < 2  + binding site affected   →  CATEGORY 3 — docking experiments
ΔΔG 2–4                            →  CATEGORY 2 — pharmacological chaperones
ΔΔG > 4                            →  CATEGORY 1 — gene therapy
pLDDT < 50                         →  CATEGORY 5 — IDR, experimental only
Stable fold + functional site hit  →  CATEGORY 4 — site-specific docking

Final Schema Categorization

Category 4 — Stable Fold, Function Disrupted

<strong>Category 4 — Stable Fold, Function Disrupted</strong><br/><br/>|ΔΔG|=1.71 negligible. Likely site-specific functional disruption — docking strategy.

Why this card matters. Wolframin's fold survives this substitution (|ΔΔG|=1.71 kcal/mol). The pathogenic signal is real — AlphaMissense places it at 0.366. Protein still folds, but a specific local site is broken. Pharmacological chaperones and small-molecule binders are the rational therapeutic vector.


Files in this folder

  • AF-O76024-F1-model_v6.pdb — AlphaFold structure
  • C505S_molstar_viewer.html — interactive 3D viewer (auto-highlights position 505 with ball-and-stick + neighbors within 5Å)
  • C505S_variant_card.md — this card (source of truth)
  • C505S_variant_card.html — styled printable card
  • C505S_dynamut2_summary.html — clean offline DynaMut2 result card
  • dynamut2_result.json — structured result data
  • dynamut2_result_page.html — local snapshot of the Biosig result page (asset URLs absolutized)
  • C505S_wildtype_interactions.pse / C505S_mutant_interactions.pse — PyMOL sessions

Generated by wolfram-variant-card skill · RareResearch.AI Molecular Atlas Every assumption documented. Every score sourced.

Therapeutic Strategy Handoff · prediction

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Download the C505S PDF below and upload it to Wolfram Intelligence to generate therapeutic-strategy proposals — guanidinium mimetics, sigma-1 agonist docking, NAC thiol-capping. NAC is already on the bench-testing list.

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