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N159S

Category 3/4 — Most DruggableUncertain significanceCytoplasmic · predictedSource card
AsparagineSerine at position 159 · N-terminal cytoplasmic (intrinsically disordered) · WFS1 (Wolframin)

Interactive 3D Structure

Wild-type reference
Wild-type N159 — hydrogen bond to V163
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DynaMut2 mutant · N159S
Mutant S159 — hydrogen bond to I155 lost (9 contacts lost)
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Bond changes · DynaMut2 interaction analysis

9 lost0 gained6 preserved
Interaction typeWild-type partnerMutant partnerStatus
Hydrogen bondG154Lost
Hydrogen bondI155Lost
Hydrogen bondT156T156Preserved
Hydrogen bondE162Lost
Hydrogen bondV163V163Preserved
Polar contactG154Lost
Polar contactI155Lost
Polar contactT156T156Preserved
Polar contactR161R161Preserved
Polar contactE162E162Preserved
Polar contactV163V163Preserved
Van der WaalsT156Lost
Van der WaalsR161Lost
Van der WaalsE162Lost
HydrophobicV163Lost

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
-0.53kcal/mol
Destabilising — mild
AlphaMissense
0.770
likely pathogenic
AlphaFold pLDDT
90
model confidence
Schema
Cat 3/4
Category 3/4 — Most Druggable

Clinical Evidence

ClinVar classificationUncertain significance
Review statusno assertion criteria provided
Associated conditionsWFS1-related disorder
Population frequency (gnomAD v4)Ultra-rare · AF 0.00034%
cDNA changec.476A>G
ClinVar accessionVCV003044331
Last evaluated2023/11/24 00:00

Observed at very low frequency in gnomAD.

Full Variant Card

WFS1 Wolframin — N159S Variant Card

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

Asparagine → Serine at position 159. N-terminal cytoplasmic (intrinsically disordered). ClinVar Uncertain significance, AlphaMissense 0.770, DynaMut2 ΔΔG -0.53 kcal/mol (destabilising).


Identity

FieldValue
VariantN159S (p.Asparagine159Serine)
DNA changec.476A>G
Gene · ProteinWFS1 · Wolframin (890 aa)
UniProtO76024 · WFS1_HUMAN
ClinVar accessionVCV003044331
Amino acid changeAsparagine (N) → Serine (S)

Structural Context

FieldValue
AlphaFold modelAF-O76024-F1, v6
pLDDT at residue 15990.00 — well-folded
DomainN-terminal cytoplasmic (intrinsically disordered)
Position contextN-terminal cytoplasmic (intrinsically disordered)
IDR flagNo — pLDDT above 50 threshold

UniProt features at this position:

(none catalogued)

Position 159 sits in N-terminal cytoplasmic (intrinsically disordered). The wild-type residue is polar amide (asparagine — H-bond donor/acceptor); the mutant is small polar (serine — hydroxyl). The chemistry shift implies altered local packing, hydrogen-bonding, and/or electrostatics at this site.


Computational Predictions

AlphaMissense

FieldValue
am_pathogenicity0.7699
am_classlikely pathogenic
InterpretationLikely pathogenic (threshold 0.564)

DynaMut2

FieldValue
ΔΔG (kcal/mol)-0.53 (Destabilising)
Job ID178092119208
Result URLhttps://biosig.lab.uq.edu.au/dynamut2/results_prediction/178092119208

Clinical Evidence

FieldValue
ClassificationUncertain significance
Review statusno assertion criteria provided
Last evaluated2023/11/24 00:00
InheritanceInheritance pattern not specified in ClinVar entry; WFS1 has both AD and AR presentations.
WFS1 variant landscapeN159S is 1 of ~326 pathogenic-spectrum variants in WFS1 (out of 2,243 catalogued in ClinVar)
  • WFS1-related disorder

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|=0.53 < 2 kcal/mol (fold intact) + AlphaMissense 0.770 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|=0.53 kcal/mol). The pathogenic signal is real — AlphaMissense places it at 0.770. 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
  • N159S_molstar_viewer.html — interactive 3D viewer (auto-highlights position 159 with ball-and-stick + neighbors within 5Å)
  • N159S_variant_card.md — this card (source of truth)
  • N159S_variant_card.html — styled printable card
  • N159S_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)
  • N159S_wildtype_interactions.pse / N159S_mutant_interactions.pse — PyMOL sessions

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Therapeutic Strategy Handoff · prediction

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Download the N159S 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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