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E824K

Category 3/4 — Most DruggableConflictingLumenal · predictedσ-1 candidateEditorial
GlutamateLysine at position 824 · C-terminal lumenal domain (653-869) · WFS1 (Wolframin)

Glutamate → Lysine at position 824 in lumenal domain. ClinVar Conflicting including DFNA6. AlphaMissense 0.566 (borderline), ΔΔG -0.13.

Interactive 3D Structure

Wild-type reference
Wild-type E824 — hydrogen bond to S846
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DynaMut2 mutant · E824K
Mutant K824 — hydrophobic contact to T701 lost
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Bond changes · DynaMut2 interaction analysis

0 lost0 gained9 preserved
Interaction typeWild-type partnerMutant partnerStatus
Hydrogen bondW700W700Preserved
Hydrogen bondI845I845Preserved
Hydrogen bondS846S846Preserved
Polar contactW700W700Preserved
Polar contactI845I845Preserved
Polar contactS846S846Preserved
CarbonylI845I845Preserved
HydrophobicT701T701Preserved
HydrophobicL848L848Preserved

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
-0.13kcal/mol
Destabilising — mild
AlphaMissense
0.566
LPath
AlphaFold pLDDT
90
model confidence
Schema
Cat 3/4
Category 3/4 — Most Druggable
ΔΔG confidence: Standard confidence · Lumenal

This variant is in a water-facing region, which is the regime the stability predictor was built and benchmarked for. Ordinary predictor error still applies.

Clinical Evidence

ClinVar classificationConflicting classifications of pathogenicity
Review statuscriteria provided, conflicting classifications
Associated conditionsAutosomal dominant nonsyndromic hearing loss 6 (DFNA6)
InheritanceDFNA6.
Population frequency (gnomAD v4)Ultra-rare · AF 0.0047%
cDNA changec.2470G>A
ClinVar accessionVCV000166612
Last evaluated2024/03/21 00:00

Observed at very low frequency in gnomAD.

Classified for1★ unverified submission

ClinVar classifies this variant as Conflicting classifications of pathogenicity for Nonsyndromic hearing loss (DFNA6/14/38) (autosomal dominant, OMIM 600965); WFS1-related diabetes (autosomal dominant); Wolfram syndrome (classic) (autosomal recessive, OMIM 222300); Cataract 41 (autosomal dominant, OMIM 116400); 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.

  • Nonsyndromic hearing loss (DFNA6/14/38)autosomal dominant · OMIM 600965submitted as: Autosomal dominant nonsyndromic hearing loss 6
  • WFS1-related diabetesautosomal dominantsubmitted as: Type 2 diabetes mellitus
  • Wolfram syndrome (classic)autosomal recessive · OMIM 222300submitted as: Wolfram syndrome 1; Wolfram syndrome 1
  • Cataract 41autosomal dominant · OMIM 116400submitted as: Cataract 41
  • Wolfram-like syndromeautosomal dominant · OMIM 614296submitted as: Wolfram-like syndrome
  • Submitters conflict on this classification (1★). Treat the conditions above as submitted, not as documented phenotypes.
  • 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★ conflicting classifications. ClinVar "conditions" is the union of all submissions; 0–1★ entries are submitted conditions, not documented phenotypes.

Population frequency
Global (all ancestries)
AF 0.0047% · 76 / 1,604,748 alleles
Homozygotes
0
Highest-frequency population
European (non-Finnish) · AF 0.0064%

Highest in European (non-Finnish): AF 0.0064% (75 of 1,173,986 alleles), in line with the global figure.

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.
European (non-Finnish)0.0064%75 / 1,173,9860~1 in 7830
Remaining individuals · under-sampled0.0016%1 / 62,0420

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.

Structural Context

Position 824 in lumenal domain. Neighbors: PHE825 (2.4 Å — W700-F825 π-stacking partner!), ILE823 (2.5 Å), TRP700 (3.5 Å — direct contact with W700 Cat 2 region!), SER846 (3.7 Å).

E824 sits in direct contact with W700 and F825 — the same aromatic cluster identified in W700C and T699P Atlas cards. The wild-type E824 negative charge contributes to this microregion. Charge-flipping to K824 disrupts the local environment supporting W700-F825 π-stacking.

Mild ΔΔG; AM 0.566 borderline + DFNA6 confirm severe consequence.

Amino-acid chemistry
Glutamate (E) → Lysine (K) — charge reversal.
Position in the protein
C-terminal lumenal domain · position 824 (pLDDT 90).

Druggability Assessment

Category 3/4 — Most Druggable. |ΔΔG| = 0.13. AlphaMissense 0.566 borderline + DFNA6 confirm severe consequence.

Mechanism: charge-flip in the W700-F825 aromatic cluster. Therapeutic: same W700-F825 microregion (with W700S/C, T699P/M).

Why this matters

E824K is the FIFTH variant converging on the W700-F825 π-stacking microregion. Drug discovery here has unusually dense convergence.
Therapeutic Strategy Handoff · prediction

Feed this card to Wolfram Intelligence

Download the E824K 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 E824K PDF card ↓Strategies are AI-generated predictions, not validated therapeutics.

UniProt Domain Annotation

Chain1890 · Wolframin
Topological domain653869 · Lumenal