WFS1 Wolframin — D389E Variant Card

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Aspartic acid → Glutamic acid at position 389. Transmembrane helix 3. ClinVar Uncertain significance, AlphaMissense 0.775, DynaMut2 ΔΔG -0.07 kcal/mol (destabilising).

Identity

Structural Context

UniProt features at this position:

(none catalogued)

Position 389 sits in a transmembrane helix (Transmembrane helix 3). 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 negatively charged (aspartate — carboxylate); the mutant is negatively charged (glutamate — carboxylate). The chemistry shift implies altered local packing, hydrogen-bonding, and/or electrostatics at this site.

Computational Predictions

AlphaMissense

DynaMut2

Clinical Evidence

Inheritance and scope

Uncertain significance — for Wolfram syndrome (classic) (autosomal recessive, OMIM 222300); Cataract 41 (autosomal dominant, OMIM 116400); Nonsyndromic hearing loss (DFNA6/14/38) (autosomal dominant, OMIM 600965); WFS1-related diabetes (autosomal dominant); Wolfram-like syndrome (autosomal dominant, OMIM 614296)

ClinVar classifies this variant as Uncertain significance for Wolfram syndrome (classic) (autosomal recessive, OMIM 222300); Cataract 41 (autosomal dominant, OMIM 116400); Nonsyndromic hearing loss (DFNA6/14/38) (autosomal dominant, OMIM 600965); WFS1-related diabetes (autosomal dominant); Wolfram-like syndrome (autosomal dominant, OMIM 614296). These are two clinically distinct disease families: classic Wolfram syndrome requires two affected copies, while the dominant WFS1-related disorders do not. One label covers both, and it does not tell you which applies to a given person.

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.

• Wolfram syndrome 1
• Cataract 41
• Autosomal dominant nonsyndromic hearing loss 6
• Type 2 diabetes mellitus
• Wolfram-like syndrome

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 3/4 — Most Druggable

<strong>Category 3/4 — Most Druggable</strong><br/><br/>|ΔΔG|=0.07 < 2 kcal/mol (fold intact) + AlphaMissense 0.775 confirms functional impact. Specific local contacts disrupted — priority for docking and pharmacological chaperone screening.

Why this card matters. Wolframin's fold survives this substitution (|ΔΔG|=0.07 kcal/mol). The pathogenic signal is real — AlphaMissense places it at 0.775. 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
• D389E_molstar_viewer.html — interactive 3D viewer (auto-highlights position 389 with ball-and-stick + neighbors within 5Å)
• D389E_variant_card.md — this card (source of truth)
• D389E_variant_card.html — styled printable card
• D389E_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)
• D389E_wildtype_interactions.pse / D389E_mutant_interactions.pse — PyMOL sessions

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