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T461I

Category 4 — Stable Fold, Function DisruptedConflictingTransmembrane · predictedEditorial
ThreonineIsoleucine at position 461 · Connecting loop · WFS1 (Wolframin)

Threonine → Isoleucine at position 461 in a connecting loop. ClinVar Conflicting including Wolfram syndrome 1. AlphaMissense 0.30 (below threshold) — AM under-call. DynaMut2 ΔΔG -0.30 kcal/mol. Adjacent to E462G (Atlas card).

Interactive 3D Structure

Wild-type reference
Wild-type T461 — hydrogen bond to R457
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DynaMut2 mutant · T461I
Mutant I461 — hydrogen bond contact to R457 lost
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Bond changes · DynaMut2 interaction analysis

1 lost6 gained12 preserved
Interaction typeWild-type partnerMutant partnerStatus
Hydrogen bondR457R457Preserved
Hydrogen bondA458A458Preserved
Hydrogen bondT464T464Preserved
Hydrogen bondA465A465Preserved
Hydrogen bondL507Gained
Polar contactR457R457Preserved
Polar contactA458A458Preserved
Polar contactL459L459Preserved
Polar contactT464Gained
Polar contactA465A465Preserved
Van der WaalsA458A458Preserved
Van der WaalsL459L459Preserved
Van der WaalsA465A465Preserved
Van der WaalsY510Lost
Van der WaalsL511Gained
HydrophobicL507Gained
HydrophobicY510Y510Preserved
HydrophobicL511Gained
HydrophobicL514Gained

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
-0.30kcal/mol
Destabilising — mild
AlphaMissense
0.296
LBen
AlphaFold pLDDT
86
model confidence
Schema
Cat 4
Category 4 — Stable Fold, Function Disrupted
ΔΔG confidence: Reduced confidence · Transmembrane
  • transmembrane position; predictor benchmarked on soluble proteins

This variant sits in the transmembrane band. The stability value was computed with a predictor benchmarked on water-soluble proteins. Published benchmarks of ddG predictors on membrane proteins report correlation below 0.4. Treat the magnitude as unreliable and the sign as weak evidence only.

Do not rank this value against a variant from a different region on ΔΔG alone.

Clinical Evidence

ClinVar classificationConflicting classifications of pathogenicity
Review statuscriteria provided, conflicting classifications
Associated conditionsWolfram syndrome 1
InheritanceWolfram syndrome 1.
Population frequency (gnomAD v4)Ultra-rare · AF 0.00014%
cDNA changec.1382C>T
ClinVar accessionVCV000229636
Last evaluated2015/12/31 00:00

Observed at very low frequency in gnomAD.

Classified for1★ unverified submission

ClinVar classifies this variant as Conflicting classifications of pathogenicity for Wolfram syndrome (classic) (autosomal recessive, OMIM 222300). Classic Wolfram syndrome is recessive: a single copy does not produce it, and this classification says nothing about a carrier's own risk.

  • Wolfram syndrome (classic)autosomal recessive · OMIM 222300submitted as: Wolfram syndrome 1
  • Submitters conflict on this classification (1★). Treat the conditions above as submitted, not as documented phenotypes.
  • 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★ conflicting classifications. ClinVar "conditions" is the union of all submissions; 0–1★ entries are submitted conditions, not documented phenotypes.

Population frequency
Global (all ancestries)
AF 0.00014% · 2 / 1,459,904 alleles
Homozygotes
0
Highest-frequency population
European (non-Finnish) · AF 0.00018%

Highest in European (non-Finnish): AF 0.00018% (2 of 1,111,798 alleles), in line with the global figure.

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.
European (non-Finnish)0.00018%2 / 1,111,7980~1 in 277950

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.

Structural Context

Position 461 sits in a connecting loop, immediately upstream of E462 (E462G Atlas card). Neighbors: GLU462 (2.5 Å — the E462G variant position!), ALA460 (2.5 Å), ALA458 (3.6 Å). The E462 contact at 2.5 Å places T461 in direct sequence contact with the E462G pathogenic variant.

The wild-type T461 hydroxyl likely H-bonds with E462's carboxylate, stabilizing the local loop geometry. Replacing T461 with isoleucine eliminates the H-bonding capacity; the E462 carboxylate loses its sequence-neighbor H-bond partner.

|ΔΔG| 0.30 + AM 0.30 below threshold + Wolfram syndrome 1 confirm pathogenicity. The mechanism is loss of T461-E462 H-bond — perturbing the same loop microregion that E462G disrupts.

Amino-acid chemistry
Threonine (T) → Isoleucine (I) — small polar hydroxyl replaced by branched aliphatic hydrophobic. Loss of H-bonding.
Position in the protein
Connecting loop · position 461 (pLDDT 86).

Druggability Assessment

Category 3/4 — Most Druggable (AM under-call). |ΔΔG| = 0.30. AlphaMissense 0.30 below threshold and Wolfram 1 does not resolve it (ClinVar: conflicting submissions).

Mechanism: loss of T461-E462 H-bond. Therapeutic strategy: same E462 loop microregion as E462G.

Why this matters

T461I + E462G are sister variants at adjacent positions — both disrupt the T461-E462 H-bond geometry.
Therapeutic Strategy Handoff · prediction

Feed this card to Wolfram Intelligence

Download the T461I 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.

Download T461I PDF card ↓Strategies are AI-generated predictions, not validated therapeutics.

UniProt Domain Annotation

Chain1890 · Wolframin
Natural variant461463 · in WFS1