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M781I

Category 3/4 — Most DruggableUncertain significanceLumenal · predictedσ-1 candidateSource card
MethionineIsoleucine at position 781 · C-terminal ER-lumenal (calcium binding, calmodulin, chaperone) · WFS1 (Wolframin)

Interactive 3D Structure

Wild-type reference
Wild-type M781 — hydrogen bond to I802
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DynaMut2 mutant · M781I
Mutant I781 — hydrogen bond to I802 lost (8 contacts lost)
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Bond changes · DynaMut2 interaction analysis

8 lost3 gained2 preserved
Interaction typeWild-type partnerMutant partnerStatus
Hydrogen bondK800Gained
Hydrogen bondI802Lost
Polar contactT701Lost
Polar contactF783Lost
Polar contactK800Gained
Van der WaalsW666Lost
Van der WaalsI802Lost
HydrophobicW666W666Preserved
HydrophobicW700Lost
HydrophobicV779Lost
HydrophobicK800Gained
HydrophobicI802I802Preserved
HydrophobicF825Lost

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
-0.72kcal/mol
Destabilising — mild
AlphaMissense
0.660
likely pathogenic
AlphaFold pLDDT
84
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 classificationUncertain significance
Review statuscriteria provided, multiple submitters, no conflicts
Associated conditions
Population frequency (gnomAD v4)Ultra-rare · AF 0.00012%
cDNA changec.2343G>A
ClinVar accessionVCV001678045
Last evaluated2025/10/26 00:00

Observed at very low frequency in gnomAD.

Classified for2★ documented assertion

ClinVar classifies this variant as Uncertain significance, 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: 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 0.00012% · 2 / 1,612,884 alleles
Homozygotes
0
Highest-frequency population
African / African American · AF 0.0027%

Highest in African / African American: AF 0.0027% (2 of 74,952 alleles), 21.5x 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.
African / African American0.0027%2 / 74,9520~1 in 18740

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 — M781I Variant Card

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

Methionine → Isoleucine at position 781. C-terminal ER-lumenal (calcium binding. ClinVar Uncertain significance, AlphaMissense 0.660, DynaMut2 ΔΔG -0.72 kcal/mol (destabilising).


Identity

FieldValue
VariantM781I (p.Methionine781Isoleucine)
DNA changec.2343G>A
Gene · ProteinWFS1 · Wolframin (890 aa)
UniProtO76024 · WFS1_HUMAN
ClinVar accessionVCV001678045
Amino acid changeMethionine (M) → Isoleucine (I)

Structural Context

FieldValue
AlphaFold modelAF-O76024-F1, v6
pLDDT at residue 78184.12 — well-folded
DomainC-terminal ER-lumenal (calcium binding, calmodulin, chaperone)
Position contextC-terminal lumenal domain · position 781 projects into the ER lumen
IDR flagNo — pLDDT above 50 threshold

UniProt features at this position:

(none catalogued)

Position 781 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 hydrophobic sulfur (methionine); the mutant is medium hydrophobic (isoleucine — branched). The chemistry shift implies altered local packing, hydrogen-bonding, and/or electrostatics at this site.


Computational Predictions

AlphaMissense

FieldValue
am_pathogenicity0.6605
am_classlikely pathogenic
InterpretationLikely pathogenic (threshold 0.564)

DynaMut2

FieldValue
ΔΔG (kcal/mol)-0.72 (Destabilising)
Job ID178092128367
Result URLJob 178092128367 · retrieved 2026-06-08 — result self-hosted by RareResearch.AI (Biosig no longer serves this page)

Clinical Evidence

Inheritance and scope

Uncertain significance — phenotype scope not stated in ClinVar

ClinVar classifies this variant as Uncertain significance, 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.

FieldValue
ClassificationUncertain significance
Review statuscriteria provided, multiple submitters, no conflicts
Last evaluated2025/10/26 00:00
InheritanceInheritance pattern not specified in ClinVar entry; WFS1 has both AD and AR presentations.
WFS1 variant landscapeM781I is 1 of ~326 pathogenic-spectrum variants in WFS1 (out of 2,243 catalogued in ClinVar)

(no conditions catalogued)


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|=0.72 < 2 kcal/mol (fold intact) + AlphaMissense 0.660 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|=0.72 kcal/mol). The pathogenic signal is real — AlphaMissense places it at 0.660. 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
  • M781I_molstar_viewer.html — interactive 3D viewer (auto-highlights position 781 with ball-and-stick + neighbors within 5Å)
  • M781I_variant_card.md — this card (source of truth)
  • M781I_variant_card.html — styled printable card
  • M781I_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)
  • M781I_wildtype_interactions.pse / M781I_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 M781I 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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