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R756C

Category 4 — Stable Fold, Function DisruptedUncertain significanceLumenal · predictedσ-1 candidateSource card
ArginineCysteine at position 756 · C-terminal ER-lumenal (calcium binding, calmodulin, chaperone) · WFS1 (Wolframin)

Interactive 3D Structure

Wild-type reference
Wild-type R756 — ionic bond to E752
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DynaMut2 mutant · R756C
Mutant C756 — ionic bond contact to E752 lost
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Bond changes · DynaMut2 interaction analysis

1 lost2 gained8 preserved
Interaction typeWild-type partnerMutant partnerStatus
Ionic bondE752Lost
Hydrogen bondE752E752Preserved
Hydrogen bondE753E753Preserved
Hydrogen bondL759L759Preserved
Polar contactE752E752Preserved
Polar contactE753E753Preserved
Polar contactK758K758Preserved
Polar contactL759L759Preserved
Van der WaalsE752Gained
Van der WaalsL754Gained
Van der WaalsK758K758Preserved

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
0.32kcal/mol
Stabilising — mild
AlphaMissense
0.385
ambiguous
AlphaFold pLDDT
83
model confidence
Schema
Cat 4
Category 4 — Stable Fold, Function Disrupted

Clinical Evidence

ClinVar classificationUncertain significance
Review statuscriteria provided, multiple submitters, no conflicts
Associated conditionsWolfram-like syndrome; Wolfram syndrome 1; Autosomal dominant nonsyndromic hearing loss 6; Type 2 diabetes mellitus; Cataract 41
Population frequency (gnomAD v4)Low frequency · AF 0.018%
cDNA changec.2266C>T
ClinVar accessionVCV001695517
Last evaluated2026/01/21 00:00

Observed in the general population.

Full Variant Card

WFS1 Wolframin — R756C Variant Card

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

Arginine → Cysteine at position 756. C-terminal ER-lumenal (calcium binding. ClinVar Uncertain significance, AlphaMissense 0.385, DynaMut2 ΔΔG +0.32 kcal/mol (stabilising).


Identity

FieldValue
VariantR756C (p.Arginine756Cysteine)
DNA changec.2266C>T
Gene · ProteinWFS1 · Wolframin (890 aa)
UniProtO76024 · WFS1_HUMAN
ClinVar accessionVCV001695517
Amino acid changeArginine (R) → Cysteine (C)

Structural Context

FieldValue
AlphaFold modelAF-O76024-F1, v6
pLDDT at residue 75683.44 — well-folded
DomainC-terminal ER-lumenal (calcium binding, calmodulin, chaperone)
Position contextC-terminal lumenal domain · position 756 projects into the ER lumen
IDR flagNo — pLDDT above 50 threshold

UniProt features at this position:

(none catalogued)

Position 756 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 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

FieldValue
am_pathogenicity0.3854
am_classambiguous
InterpretationLikely benign (threshold 0.564)

DynaMut2

FieldValue
ΔΔG (kcal/mol)0.32 (Stabilising)
Job ID178094703908
Result URLhttps://biosig.lab.uq.edu.au/dynamut2/results_prediction/178094703908

Clinical Evidence

FieldValue
ClassificationUncertain significance
Review statuscriteria provided, multiple submitters, no conflicts
Last evaluated2026/01/21 00:00
InheritanceAutosomal dominant pattern indicated by associated DFNA6/14/38 (WFS1 hearing loss 6).
WFS1 variant landscapeR756C is 1 of ~326 pathogenic-spectrum variants in WFS1 (out of 2,243 catalogued in ClinVar)
  • Wolfram-like syndrome
  • Wolfram syndrome 1
  • Autosomal dominant nonsyndromic hearing loss 6
  • Type 2 diabetes mellitus
  • Cataract 41

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|=0.32 negligible. Likely site-specific functional disruption — docking strategy.

Why this card matters. Wolframin's fold survives this substitution (|ΔΔG|=0.32 kcal/mol). The pathogenic signal is real — AlphaMissense places it at 0.385. 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
  • R756C_molstar_viewer.html — interactive 3D viewer (auto-highlights position 756 with ball-and-stick + neighbors within 5Å)
  • R756C_variant_card.md — this card (source of truth)
  • R756C_variant_card.html — styled printable card
  • R756C_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)
  • R756C_wildtype_interactions.pse / R756C_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 R756C 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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