R139C

Category 4 — Stable Fold, Function DisruptedUncertain significanceCytoplasmic · predictedSource card

Arginine → Cysteine at position 139 · N-terminal cytoplasmic (intrinsically disordered) · WFS1 (Wolframin)

Interactive 3D Structure

Wild-type reference

Wild-type R139 — hydrogen bond to K143

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DynaMut2 mutant · R139C

Mutant C139 — van der waals contact to K143 lost

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Bond changes · DynaMut2 interaction analysis

1 lost0 gained5 preserved

Interaction type	Wild-type partner	Mutant partner	Status
Hydrogen bond	V142	V142	Preserved
Hydrogen bond	K143	K143	Preserved
Polar contact	G137	G137	Preserved
Polar contact	V142	V142	Preserved
Polar contact	K143	K143	Preserved
Van der Waals	K143	—	Lost

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

0.27kcal/mol

Stabilising — mild

AlphaMissense

0.360

ambiguous

AlphaFold pLDDT

model confidence

Schema

Cat 4

Category 4 — Stable Fold, Function Disrupted

Clinical Evidence

ClinVar classificationUncertain significance

Review statuscriteria provided, multiple submitters, no conflicts

Associated conditions—

Population frequency (gnomAD v4)Ultra-rare · AF 0.00032%

cDNA changec.415C>T

ClinVar accessionVCV001438513

Last evaluated2024/06/24 00:00

Observed at very low frequency in gnomAD.

Full Variant Card

WFS1 Wolframin — R139C Variant Card

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

Arginine → Cysteine at position 139. N-terminal cytoplasmic (intrinsically disordered). ClinVar Uncertain significance, AlphaMissense 0.360, DynaMut2 ΔΔG +0.27 kcal/mol (stabilising).

Identity

Field	Value
Variant	R139C (p.Arginine139Cysteine)
DNA change	c.415C>T
Gene · Protein	WFS1 · Wolframin (890 aa)
UniProt	O76024 · WFS1_HUMAN
ClinVar accession	VCV001438513
Amino acid change	Arginine (R) → Cysteine (C)

Structural Context

Field	Value
AlphaFold model	AF-O76024-F1, v6
pLDDT at residue 139	87.88 — well-folded
Domain	N-terminal cytoplasmic (intrinsically disordered)
Position context	N-terminal cytoplasmic (intrinsically disordered)
IDR flag	No — pLDDT above 50 threshold

UniProt features at this position:

(none catalogued)

Position 139 sits in N-terminal cytoplasmic (intrinsically disordered). The wild-type residue is positively charged (arginine — guanidinium, strong H-bond donor); the mutant is thiol (cysteine — disulfide-capable, free -SH). The chemistry shift implies altered local packing, hydrogen-bonding, and/or electrostatics at this site.

Computational Predictions

AlphaMissense

Field	Value
am_pathogenicity	0.3604
am_class	ambiguous
Interpretation	Likely benign (threshold 0.564)

DynaMut2

Field	Value
ΔΔG (kcal/mol)	0.27 (Stabilising)
Job ID	178094720975
Result URL	https://biosig.lab.uq.edu.au/dynamut2/results_prediction/178094720975

Clinical Evidence

Field	Value
Classification	Uncertain significance
Review status	criteria provided, multiple submitters, no conflicts
Last evaluated	2024/06/24 00:00
Inheritance	Inheritance pattern not specified in ClinVar entry; WFS1 has both AD and AR presentations.
WFS1 variant landscape	R139C 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 4 — Stable Fold, Function Disrupted

<strong>Category 4 — Stable Fold, Function Disrupted</strong><br/><br/>|ΔΔG|=0.27 negligible. Likely site-specific functional disruption — docking strategy.

Why this card matters. Wolframin's fold survives this substitution (|ΔΔG|=0.27 kcal/mol). The pathogenic signal is real — AlphaMissense places it at 0.360. 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
R139C_molstar_viewer.html — interactive 3D viewer (auto-highlights position 139 with ball-and-stick + neighbors within 5Å)
R139C_variant_card.md — this card (source of truth)
R139C_variant_card.html — styled printable card
R139C_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)
R139C_wildtype_interactions.pse / R139C_mutant_interactions.pse — PyMOL sessions

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Therapeutic Strategy Handoff · prediction

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Download the R139C 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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