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F524L

Category 3/4 — Most DruggableUncertain significanceTransmembrane · predictedSource card
PhenylalanineLeucine at position 524 · Cytoplasmic loop 4 · WFS1 (Wolframin)

Interactive 3D Structure

Wild-type reference
Wild-type F524 — hydrogen bond to T527
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DynaMut2 mutant · F524L
Mutant L524 — polar contact to G526 lost (2 contacts lost)
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Bond changes · DynaMut2 interaction analysis

2 lost1 gained5 preserved
Interaction typeWild-type partnerMutant partnerStatus
Hydrogen bondA519A519Preserved
Hydrogen bondT527T527Preserved
Polar contactA519A519Preserved
Polar contactR522R522Preserved
Polar contactG526Lost
Polar contactT527T527Preserved
Van der WaalsA519Gained
HydrophobicQ520Lost

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
0.10kcal/mol
Stabilising — mild
AlphaMissense
0.919
likely pathogenic
AlphaFold pLDDT
79
model confidence
Schema
Cat 3/4
Category 3/4 — Most Druggable
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/Uncertain risk allele
Review statuscriteria provided, multiple submitters, no conflicts
Associated conditionsWolfram syndrome 1
Population frequency (gnomAD v4)Ultra-rare · AF 0.00014%
cDNA changec.1572C>G
ClinVar accessionVCV000450291
Last evaluated2022/06/17 00:00

Observed at very low frequency in gnomAD.

Classified for2★ documented assertion

ClinVar classifies this variant as Uncertain significance/Uncertain risk allele for Wolfram syndrome (classic) (autosomal recessive, OMIM 222300). Classic Wolfram syndrome is recessive: a single copy does not produce it, and this classification says nothing about a carrier's own risk.

  • Wolfram syndrome (classic)autosomal recessive · OMIM 222300submitted as: Wolfram syndrome 1
  • 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: 2★ multiple submitters, no conflicts. ClinVar "conditions" is the union of all submissions; 0–1★ entries are submitted conditions, not documented phenotypes.

Population frequency
Global (all ancestries)
AF 0.00014% · 2 / 1,460,156 alleles
Homozygotes
0

Every ancestry group with observed alleles falls below the reporting threshold (min 2 alleles, min 500 sampled) — too sparse to name a highest-frequency population.

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.
Remaining individuals · under-sampled0.0017%1 / 60,3860
European (non-Finnish) · under-sampled0.000090%1 / 1,111,9960

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 — F524L Variant Card

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

Phenylalanine → Leucine at position 524. Cytoplasmic loop 4. ClinVar Uncertain significance/Uncertain risk allele, AlphaMissense 0.919, DynaMut2 ΔΔG +0.10 kcal/mol (stabilising).


Identity

FieldValue
VariantF524L (p.Phenylalanine524Leucine)
DNA changec.1572C>G
Gene · ProteinWFS1 · Wolframin (890 aa)
UniProtO76024 · WFS1_HUMAN
ClinVar accessionVCV000450291
Amino acid changePhenylalanine (F) → Leucine (L)

Structural Context

FieldValue
AlphaFold modelAF-O76024-F1, v6
pLDDT at residue 52478.88 — well-folded
DomainCytoplasmic loop 4
Position contextLoop region · position 524 sits between transmembrane segments, solvent-accessible
IDR flagNo — pLDDT above 50 threshold

UniProt features at this position:

(none catalogued)

Position 524 sits in a connecting loop between transmembrane helices. Loop residues are typically solvent-exposed and often contribute to interhelical contacts or serve as recognition sites for binding partners. The wild-type residue is large aromatic hydrophobic (phenylalanine); the mutant is medium hydrophobic (leucine — branched). The chemistry shift implies altered local packing, hydrogen-bonding, and/or electrostatics at this site.


Computational Predictions

AlphaMissense

FieldValue
am_pathogenicity0.9186
am_classlikely pathogenic
InterpretationLikely pathogenic (threshold 0.564)

DynaMut2

FieldValue
ΔΔG (kcal/mol)0.1 (Stabilising)
Job ID178092144961
Result URLJob 178092144961 · retrieved 2026-06-08 — result self-hosted by RareResearch.AI (Biosig no longer serves this page)

Clinical Evidence

Inheritance and scope

Uncertain significance/Uncertain risk allele — for Wolfram syndrome (classic) (autosomal recessive, OMIM 222300)

ClinVar classifies this variant as Uncertain significance/Uncertain risk allele for Wolfram syndrome (classic) (autosomal recessive, OMIM 222300). Classic Wolfram syndrome is recessive: a single copy does not produce it, and this classification says nothing about a carrier's own risk.

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/Uncertain risk allele
Review statuscriteria provided, multiple submitters, no conflicts
Last evaluated2022/06/17 00:00
InheritanceAutosomal recessive Wolfram syndrome 1 phenotype documented.
WFS1 variant landscapeF524L is 1 of ~326 pathogenic-spectrum variants in WFS1 (out of 2,243 catalogued in ClinVar)
  • Wolfram syndrome 1

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|=0.10 < 2 kcal/mol (fold intact) + AlphaMissense 0.919 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|=0.10 kcal/mol). The pathogenic signal is real — AlphaMissense places it at 0.919. 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
  • F524L_molstar_viewer.html — interactive 3D viewer (auto-highlights position 524 with ball-and-stick + neighbors within 5Å)
  • F524L_variant_card.md — this card (source of truth)
  • F524L_variant_card.html — styled printable card
  • F524L_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)
  • F524L_wildtype_interactions.pse / F524L_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 F524L 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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