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K762*

NonsenseN4PathogenicLumenal · predicted
Nonsense variant · truncation point at position 762 · C-terminal ER-lumenal (calcium binding, calmodulin, chaperone) · WFS1 (Wolframin)

N4NMD-escape, minor truncation — highest druggability

Wild-type vs Translated Product

Wild-type · full length
Full wild-type wolframin · 890 aa — truncation point at residue 762
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Translated product
Native sequence to residue 761; everything highlighted (residues 762–890) is lost
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Left: full-length wild-type wolframin (890 aa) with the truncation point at residue 762 marked. Right: the same model with the lost region (residues 762–890) marked — what the nonsense transcript fails to produce as native protein.

Structural / NMD Prediction

Variant type
Nonsense
NMD status
NMD-escape
high confidence
Schema
N4
NMD-escape, minor truncation — highest druggability
Native protein retained
85.5%

Stop codon at position 762 is in the last exon (exon 8, starts ~aa 413). NMD does not target stop codons in the last exon — a truncated protein is produced.

Therapeutic Implication · N4

Most domains preserved; only the distal C-terminus is truncated. Highest druggability category among nonsense variants. Candidates: pharmacological chaperones for the partially-folded protein, small-molecule mimetics for the lost C-terminal sequence, and high-content screening (Initiative 8).

Protein Domains

Retained (aa 1–761)
  • N-terminal cytoplasmic (intrinsically disordered)1310
  • Transmembrane helix 1311331
  • Cytoplasmic loop 1332340
  • Transmembrane helix 2341361
  • Lumenal loop 1362370
  • Transmembrane helix 3371391
  • Cytoplasmic loop 2392400
  • Transmembrane helix 4401421
  • Lumenal loop 2422431
  • Transmembrane helix 5432452
  • Cytoplasmic loop 3453461
  • Transmembrane helix 6462482
  • Lumenal loop 3483496
  • Transmembrane helix 7497517
  • Cytoplasmic loop 4518532
  • Transmembrane helix 8533553
  • Lumenal loop 4554573
  • Transmembrane helix 9574594
  • Cytoplasmic loop 5 / pre-lumenal595599
Lost / non-native (downstream)

Clinical Evidence

ClinVar classificationPathogenic
Review statuscriteria provided, single submitter
Associated conditions
Population frequency (gnomAD v4)Absent from gnomAD v4
cDNA changec.2284A>T
ClinVar variantNM_006005.3(WFS1):c.2284A>T (p.Lys762Ter)
ClinVar accessionVCV003714958
Last evaluated2024/08/17 00:00

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

Classified for1★ unverified submission

ClinVar classifies this variant as Pathogenic, but does not state what it is classified for. ClinVar records no condition for this variant. A classification without a phenotype and an inheritance mode cannot be read as a statement about Wolfram syndrome risk or severity.

  • 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★ single submitter. ClinVar "conditions" is the union of all submissions; 0–1★ entries are submitted conditions, not documented phenotypes.

Population frequency
Global (all ancestries)
Absent from gnomAD v4
Homozygotes
Not available

No population breakdown — the variant is absent from gnomAD v4, so no ancestry group has an observed frequency.

No homozygotes — the variant is absent from gnomAD v4 altogether.

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.

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Full Variant Card

K762* — WFS1 Molecular Atlas Card

Variant type: Nonsense (premature stop codon) Position: 762 Wild-type residue: Lysine (K) Domain context (where the stop falls): C-terminal ER-lumenal (calcium binding, calmodulin, chaperone)


Schema category: N4 — NMD-escape, minor truncation — highest druggability

Most domains preserved; only the distal C-terminus is truncated. Highest druggability category among nonsense variants. Candidates: pharmacological chaperones for the partially-folded protein, small-molecule mimetics for the lost C-terminal sequence, and high-content screening (Initiative 8).


NMD prediction

  • Status: NMD-escape
  • Confidence: high
  • Reasoning: Stop codon at position 762 is in the last exon (exon 8, starts ~aa 413). NMD does not target stop codons in the last exon — a truncated protein is produced.

Truncation analysis

  • Residues retained: 1 – 761 (85.5% of full-length protein)
  • Residues lost: 762 – 890 (14.5% of full-length protein)

Retained domains

  • N-terminal cytoplasmic (intrinsically disordered) (aa 1–310)
  • Transmembrane helix 1 (aa 311–331)
  • Cytoplasmic loop 1 (aa 332–340)
  • Transmembrane helix 2 (aa 341–361)
  • Lumenal loop 1 (aa 362–370)
  • Transmembrane helix 3 (aa 371–391)
  • Cytoplasmic loop 2 (aa 392–400)
  • Transmembrane helix 4 (aa 401–421)
  • Lumenal loop 2 (aa 422–431)
  • Transmembrane helix 5 (aa 432–452)
  • Cytoplasmic loop 3 (aa 453–461)
  • Transmembrane helix 6 (aa 462–482)
  • Lumenal loop 3 (aa 483–496)
  • Transmembrane helix 7 (aa 497–517)
  • Cytoplasmic loop 4 (aa 518–532)
  • Transmembrane helix 8 (aa 533–553)
  • Lumenal loop 4 (aa 554–573)
  • Transmembrane helix 9 (aa 574–594)
  • Cytoplasmic loop 5 / pre-lumenal (aa 595–599)

Partially retained at truncation point

  • C-terminal ER-lumenal (calcium binding, calmodulin, chaperone) — partial: aa 600–761 retained, aa 762–890 lost

Lost domains

(no full domains lost — only distal C-terminus)


Clinical evidence

Inheritance and scope

Pathogenic — phenotype scope not stated in ClinVar

ClinVar classifies this variant as Pathogenic, but does not state what it is classified for. ClinVar records no condition for this variant. A classification without a phenotype and an inheritance mode cannot be read as a statement about Wolfram syndrome risk or severity.

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.

  • Classification: Pathogenic
  • Review status: criteria provided, single submitter
  • cDNA change: c.2284A>T
  • ClinVar accession: VCV003714958
  • Last evaluated: 2024/08/17 00:00
  • Submissions: 1

Population frequency

  • Frequency: Not observed in gnomAD v4
  • Allele count: 0 — no carrier observed in the gnomAD v4 cohort
  • Interpretation: No allele observed in the gnomAD v4 WFS1 callset (~800,000 individuals).

Source: gnomAD v4 joint exome + genome callset, cached locally. Frequency is population evidence only — it does not by itself establish or exclude pathogenicity.


Why this variant matters

Late-truncation variants in the distal C-terminus are the most druggable nonsense category in WFS1. The atlas card surfaces both the small-molecule mimetic angle (rescuing the lost C-terminal sequence) and the chaperone angle (stabilizing the mostly-intact protein). High-content screening (Initiative 8) is a strong fit.


Card generated by wolfram-atlas-batch skill (v1) on 2026-07-31T21:00:14.836595Z. NMD rule and schema definitions: reference/nmd_rules.md, reference/card_schema_extension.md. WFS1 reference: UniProt O76024, AlphaFold model v6.