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E120K

Category 3/4 — Most DruggableUncertain significanceCytoplasmic · predictedSource card
Glutamic acidLysine at position 120 · N-terminal cytoplasmic (intrinsically disordered) · WFS1 (Wolframin)

Interactive 3D Structure

Wild-type reference
Wild-type E120 — hydrogen bond to C124
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DynaMut2 mutant · E120K
Mutant K120 — polar contact contact to S123 lost
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Bond changes · DynaMut2 interaction analysis

1 lost1 gained4 preserved
Interaction typeWild-type partnerMutant partnerStatus
Hydrogen bondC124C124Preserved
Polar contactD118D118Preserved
Polar contactS123Lost
Polar contactC124C124Preserved
Van der WaalsD118D118Preserved
Van der WaalsC124Gained

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
0.53kcal/mol
Stabilising — mild
AlphaMissense
0.712
likely pathogenic
AlphaFold pLDDT
85
model confidence
Schema
Cat 3/4
Category 3/4 — Most Druggable

Clinical Evidence

ClinVar classificationUncertain significance
Review statuscriteria provided, single submitter
Associated conditions
Population frequency (gnomAD v4)Absent from gnomAD v4
cDNA changec.358G>A
ClinVar accessionVCV001328624
Last evaluated2021/06/16 00:00

Not observed in ~730k individuals — consistent with a rare allele (ACMG PM2_supporting).

Full Variant Card

WFS1 Wolframin — E120K Variant Card

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

Glutamic acid → Lysine at position 120. N-terminal cytoplasmic (intrinsically disordered). ClinVar Uncertain significance, AlphaMissense 0.712, DynaMut2 ΔΔG +0.53 kcal/mol (stabilising).


Identity

FieldValue
VariantE120K (p.Glutamic acid120Lysine)
DNA changec.358G>A
Gene · ProteinWFS1 · Wolframin (890 aa)
UniProtO76024 · WFS1_HUMAN
ClinVar accessionVCV001328624
Amino acid changeGlutamic acid (E) → Lysine (K)

Structural Context

FieldValue
AlphaFold modelAF-O76024-F1, v6
pLDDT at residue 12084.81 — well-folded
DomainN-terminal cytoplasmic (intrinsically disordered)
Position contextN-terminal cytoplasmic (intrinsically disordered)
IDR flagNo — pLDDT above 50 threshold

UniProt features at this position:

(none catalogued)

Position 120 sits in N-terminal cytoplasmic (intrinsically disordered). The wild-type residue is negatively charged (glutamate — carboxylate); the mutant is positively charged (lysine — primary amine). The chemistry shift implies altered local packing, hydrogen-bonding, and/or electrostatics at this site.


Computational Predictions

AlphaMissense

FieldValue
am_pathogenicity0.7119
am_classlikely pathogenic
InterpretationLikely pathogenic (threshold 0.564)

DynaMut2

FieldValue
ΔΔG (kcal/mol)0.53 (Stabilising)
Job ID178092125092
Result URLhttps://biosig.lab.uq.edu.au/dynamut2/results_prediction/178092125092

Clinical Evidence

FieldValue
ClassificationUncertain significance
Review statuscriteria provided, single submitter
Last evaluated2021/06/16 00:00
InheritanceInheritance pattern not specified in ClinVar entry; WFS1 has both AD and AR presentations.
WFS1 variant landscapeE120K 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 3/4 — Most Druggable

<strong>Category 3/4 — Most Druggable</strong><br/><br/>|ΔΔG|=0.53 < 2 kcal/mol (fold intact) + AlphaMissense 0.712 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|=0.53 kcal/mol). The pathogenic signal is real — AlphaMissense places it at 0.712. 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
  • E120K_molstar_viewer.html — interactive 3D viewer (auto-highlights position 120 with ball-and-stick + neighbors within 5Å)
  • E120K_variant_card.md — this card (source of truth)
  • E120K_variant_card.html — styled printable card
  • E120K_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)
  • E120K_wildtype_interactions.pse / E120K_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 E120K 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.

Download E120K PDF card ↓Strategies are AI-generated predictions, not validated therapeutics.