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F879L

Category 3/4 — Most DruggableUncertain significanceLumenal · predictedσ-1 candidateSource card
PhenylalanineLeucine at position 879 · C-terminal ER-lumenal (calcium binding, calmodulin, chaperone) · WFS1 (Wolframin)

Interactive 3D Structure

Wild-type reference
Wild-type F879 — hydrogen bond to F882
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DynaMut2 mutant · F879L
Mutant L879 — polar contact to F881 lost (5 contacts lost)
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Bond changes · DynaMut2 interaction analysis

5 lost2 gained11 preserved
Interaction typeWild-type partnerMutant partnerStatus
Hydrogen bondV875V875Preserved
Hydrogen bondK876K876Preserved
Hydrogen bondF882F882Preserved
Hydrogen bondF883F883Preserved
Polar contactV875V875Preserved
Polar contactK876K876Preserved
Polar contactF877Gained
Polar contactF881Lost
Polar contactF882F882Preserved
Polar contactF883F883Preserved
Aromatic / πF883Lost
Van der WaalsF877Gained
Van der WaalsF881Lost
Van der WaalsF883F883Preserved
HydrophobicV497Lost
HydrophobicF883F883Preserved
HydrophobicL887Lost
HydrophobicA889A889Preserved

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
-1.40kcal/mol
Destabilising — moderate
AlphaMissense
0.967
likely pathogenic
AlphaFold pLDDT
84
model confidence
Schema
Cat 3/4
Category 3/4 — Most Druggable

Clinical Evidence

ClinVar classificationUncertain significance
Review statuscriteria provided, single submitter
Associated conditionsWolfram syndrome 1; Autosomal dominant nonsyndromic hearing loss 6; Type 2 diabetes mellitus; Cataract 41; Wolfram-like syndrome
Population frequency (gnomAD v4)Absent from gnomAD v4
cDNA changec.2637C>G
ClinVar accessionVCV003382082
Last evaluated2025/05/12 00:00

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

Full Variant Card

WFS1 Wolframin — F879L Variant Card

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

Phenylalanine → Leucine at position 879. C-terminal ER-lumenal (calcium binding. ClinVar Uncertain significance, AlphaMissense 0.967, DynaMut2 ΔΔG -1.40 kcal/mol (destabilising).


Identity

FieldValue
VariantF879L (p.Phenylalanine879Leucine)
DNA changec.2637C>G
Gene · ProteinWFS1 · Wolframin (890 aa)
UniProtO76024 · WFS1_HUMAN
ClinVar accessionVCV003382082
Amino acid changePhenylalanine (F) → Leucine (L)

Structural Context

FieldValue
AlphaFold modelAF-O76024-F1, v6
pLDDT at residue 87984.19 — well-folded
DomainC-terminal ER-lumenal (calcium binding, calmodulin, chaperone)
Position contextC-terminal lumenal domain · position 879 projects into the ER lumen
IDR flagNo — pLDDT above 50 threshold

UniProt features at this position:

(none catalogued)

Position 879 sits in the C-terminal lumenal domain (residues 653–869), wolframin's largest soluble region. This domain projects into the ER lumen and is implicated in calcium handling, ER stress sensing, and protein–protein interactions with ATF6 and Na+/K+ ATPase β1. 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_pathogenicity0.9671
am_classlikely pathogenic
InterpretationLikely pathogenic (threshold 0.564)

DynaMut2

FieldValue
ΔΔG (kcal/mol)-1.4 (Destabilising)
Job ID178092097196
Result URLhttps://biosig.lab.uq.edu.au/dynamut2/results_prediction/178092097196

Clinical Evidence

FieldValue
ClassificationUncertain significance
Review statuscriteria provided, single submitter
Last evaluated2025/05/12 00:00
InheritanceAutosomal dominant pattern indicated by associated DFNA6/14/38 (WFS1 hearing loss 6).
WFS1 variant landscapeF879L is 1 of ~326 pathogenic-spectrum variants in WFS1 (out of 2,243 catalogued in ClinVar)
  • Wolfram syndrome 1
  • Autosomal dominant nonsyndromic hearing loss 6
  • Type 2 diabetes mellitus
  • Cataract 41
  • 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|=1.40 < 2 kcal/mol (fold intact) + AlphaMissense 0.967 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|=1.40 kcal/mol). The pathogenic signal is real — AlphaMissense places it at 0.967. 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
  • F879L_molstar_viewer.html — interactive 3D viewer (auto-highlights position 879 with ball-and-stick + neighbors within 5Å)
  • F879L_variant_card.md — this card (source of truth)
  • F879L_variant_card.html — styled printable card
  • F879L_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)
  • F879L_wildtype_interactions.pse / F879L_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 F879L 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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