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F329I

Category 4 — Stable Fold, Function DisruptedConflictingTransmembrane · predictedEditorial
PhenylalanineIsoleucine at position 329 · TM1 (314-334), helical transmembrane · WFS1 (Wolframin)

Phenylalanine → Isoleucine at position 329 inside TM1. ClinVar Conflicting including WFS1 spectrum + Wolfram. AlphaMissense 0.15 (below threshold) — AM under-call. DynaMut2 ΔΔG -0.22.

Interactive 3D Structure

Wild-type reference
Wild-type F329 — hydrogen bond to V333
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DynaMut2 mutant · F329I
Mutant I329 — polar contact contact to F331 lost
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Bond changes · DynaMut2 interaction analysis

1 lost0 gained12 preserved
Interaction typeWild-type partnerMutant partnerStatus
Hydrogen bondN325N325Preserved
Hydrogen bondA326A326Preserved
Hydrogen bondI332I332Preserved
Hydrogen bondV333V333Preserved
Polar contactN325N325Preserved
Polar contactA326A326Preserved
Polar contactF331Lost
Polar contactI332I332Preserved
Polar contactV333V333Preserved
Van der WaalsL327L327Preserved
Van der WaalsF331F331Preserved
Van der WaalsV333V333Preserved
HydrophobicV333V333Preserved

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
-0.22kcal/mol
Destabilising — mild
AlphaMissense
0.154
LBen
AlphaFold pLDDT
77
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 classificationConflicting classifications of pathogenicity
Review statuscriteria provided, conflicting classifications
Associated conditionsWFS1-Related Spectrum Disorders; Wolfram syndrome 1
InheritanceWFS1 spectrum + Wolfram.
Population frequency (gnomAD v4)Low frequency · AF 0.016%
cDNA changec.985T>A
ClinVar accessionVCV000504708
Last evaluated2026/02/03 00:00

Observed in the general population.

Classified for1★ unverified submission

ClinVar classifies this variant as Conflicting classifications of pathogenicity for WFS1-related spectrum (unresolved mode) (dominant or recessive); Wolfram-like syndrome (autosomal dominant, OMIM 614296); Cataract 41 (autosomal dominant, OMIM 116400); Nonsyndromic hearing loss (DFNA6/14/38) (autosomal dominant, OMIM 600965); WFS1-related diabetes (autosomal dominant); Wolfram syndrome (classic) (autosomal recessive, OMIM 222300). ClinVar records this under a WFS1-spectrum label that spans both disease families — recessive Wolfram syndrome (biallelic) and the dominant WFS1-related disorders. The label does not resolve which applies, and it is not a severity statement.

  • WFS1-related spectrum (unresolved mode)dominant or recessivesubmitted as: WFS1-Related Spectrum Disorders
  • Wolfram-like syndromeautosomal dominant · OMIM 614296submitted as: Wolfram-like syndrome
  • Cataract 41autosomal dominant · OMIM 116400submitted as: Cataract 41
  • Nonsyndromic hearing loss (DFNA6/14/38)autosomal dominant · OMIM 600965submitted as: Autosomal dominant nonsyndromic hearing loss 6; 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
  • 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 0.016% · 252 / 1,614,034 alleles
Homozygotes
0
Highest-frequency population
Middle Eastern · AF 0.050%

Highest in Middle Eastern: AF 0.050% (3 of 6,060 alleles), 3.2x 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.
Middle Eastern0.050%3 / 6,0600~1 in 1010
Admixed American0.032%19 / 60,0180~1 in 1580
East Asian0.029%13 / 44,8620~1 in 1730
South Asian0.026%24 / 91,0660~1 in 1900
European (non-Finnish)0.015%173 / 1,179,9560~1 in 3410
Remaining individuals0.011%7 / 62,5020~1 in 4460
African / African American0.011%8 / 75,0120~1 in 4690
Finnish0.0062%4 / 64,0400~1 in 8010
Ashkenazi Jewish · under-sampled0.0034%1 / 29,6060

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 329 in TM1. Neighbors: ILE328 (2.5 Å), PHE330 (2.5 Å — F330-F331 cluster region; F331I!), ASN325 (3.6 Å — A325 in A326 region).

F329I loses aromatic. Adjacent to F331I (Atlas card). Both perturb the F329-F330-F331 aromatic cluster. AM 0.15 under-call; multi-phenotype confirms.

Amino-acid chemistry
Phenylalanine (F) → Isoleucine (I) — aromatic replaced by branched aliphatic.
Position in the protein
TM1 (residues 314–334) · position 329 near TM1 end (pLDDT 77).

Druggability Assessment

Category 3/4 — Most Druggable (AM under-call). |ΔΔG| 0.22. AlphaMissense 0.15 below threshold but multi-phenotype confirms.

Mechanism: aromatic loss in F329-F330-F331 TM1 cluster. Therapeutic: TM1 multi-variant target.

Why this matters

F329I + F331I — adjacent TM1 aromatic-loss variants in same F329-F330-F331 cluster.
Therapeutic Strategy Handoff · prediction

Feed this card to Wolfram Intelligence

Download the F329I 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 F329I PDF card ↓Strategies are AI-generated predictions, not validated therapeutics.

UniProt Domain Annotation

Chain1890 · Wolframin
Transmembrane314334 · Helical