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V176M

Category 3/4 — Most DruggableUncertain significanceCytoplasmic · predictedSource card
ValineMethionine at position 176 · N-terminal cytoplasmic (intrinsically disordered) · WFS1 (Wolframin)

Interactive 3D Structure

Wild-type reference
Wild-type V176 — hydrogen bond to A180
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DynaMut2 mutant · V176M
Mutant M176 — hydrogen bond to E173 lost (3 contacts lost)
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Bond changes · DynaMut2 interaction analysis

3 lost7 gained14 preserved
Interaction typeWild-type partnerMutant partnerStatus
Hydrogen bondL172L172Preserved
Hydrogen bondE173Lost
Hydrogen bondA179A179Preserved
Hydrogen bondA180A180Preserved
Hydrogen bondL381Gained
Hydrogen bondL388Gained
Polar contactL172L172Preserved
Polar contactE173E173Preserved
Polar contactK178Lost
Polar contactA179A179Preserved
Polar contactA180A180Preserved
Polar contactA255Gained
Polar contactL381Gained
Van der WaalsL172Lost
Van der WaalsR174Gained
Van der WaalsA180A180Preserved
Van der WaalsA255Gained
Van der WaalsL388Gained
HydrophobicL172L172Preserved
HydrophobicT251T251Preserved
HydrophobicK252K252Preserved
HydrophobicA255A255Preserved
HydrophobicL381L381Preserved
HydrophobicL388L388Preserved

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
-0.35kcal/mol
Destabilising — mild
AlphaMissense
0.886
likely pathogenic
AlphaFold pLDDT
89
model confidence
Schema
Cat 3/4
Category 3/4 — Most Druggable
ΔΔG confidence: Standard confidence · Cytoplasmic

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, single submitter
Associated conditionsInborn genetic diseases
Population frequency (gnomAD v4)Ultra-rare · AF 0.00093%
cDNA changec.526G>A
ClinVar accessionVCV003469926
Last evaluated2024/09/08 00:00

Observed at very low frequency in gnomAD.

Classified for1★ unverified submission

ClinVar classifies this variant as Uncertain significance, but does not state what it is classified for. ClinVar records the condition only as "Inborn genetic diseases". 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: 1★ single submitter. ClinVar "conditions" is the union of all submissions; 0–1★ entries are submitted conditions, not documented phenotypes.

Population frequency
Global (all ancestries)
AF 0.00093% · 15 / 1,613,194 alleles
Homozygotes
0
Highest-frequency population
South Asian · AF 0.0044%

Highest in South Asian: AF 0.0044% (4 of 91,058 alleles), 4.7x 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.
South Asian0.0044%4 / 91,0580~1 in 11380
African / African American0.0027%2 / 74,8820~1 in 18720
Admixed American · under-sampled0.0017%1 / 59,9860
European (non-Finnish)0.00068%8 / 1,180,0120~1 in 73750

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 — V176M Variant Card

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

Valine → Methionine at position 176. N-terminal cytoplasmic (intrinsically disordered). ClinVar Uncertain significance, AlphaMissense 0.886, DynaMut2 ΔΔG -0.35 kcal/mol (destabilising).


Identity

FieldValue
VariantV176M (p.Valine176Methionine)
DNA changec.526G>A
Gene · ProteinWFS1 · Wolframin (890 aa)
UniProtO76024 · WFS1_HUMAN
ClinVar accessionVCV003469926
Amino acid changeValine (V) → Methionine (M)

Structural Context

FieldValue
AlphaFold modelAF-O76024-F1, v6
pLDDT at residue 17688.88 — 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 176 sits in N-terminal cytoplasmic (intrinsically disordered). The wild-type residue is small hydrophobic (valine — branched); the mutant is hydrophobic sulfur (methionine). The chemistry shift implies altered local packing, hydrogen-bonding, and/or electrostatics at this site.


Computational Predictions

AlphaMissense

FieldValue
am_pathogenicity0.8864
am_classlikely pathogenic
InterpretationLikely pathogenic (threshold 0.564)

DynaMut2

FieldValue
ΔΔG (kcal/mol)-0.35 (Destabilising)
Job ID178092108671
Result URLJob 178092108671 · 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 the condition only as "Inborn genetic diseases". 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, single submitter
Last evaluated2024/09/08 00:00
InheritanceInheritance pattern not specified in ClinVar entry; WFS1 has both AD and AR presentations.
WFS1 variant landscapeV176M is 1 of ~326 pathogenic-spectrum variants in WFS1 (out of 2,243 catalogued in ClinVar)
  • Inborn genetic diseases

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|=0.35 < 2 kcal/mol (fold intact) + AlphaMissense 0.886 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|=0.35 kcal/mol). The pathogenic signal is real — AlphaMissense places it at 0.886. 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
  • V176M_molstar_viewer.html — interactive 3D viewer (auto-highlights position 176 with ball-and-stick + neighbors within 5Å)
  • V176M_variant_card.md — this card (source of truth)
  • V176M_variant_card.html — styled printable card
  • V176M_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)
  • V176M_wildtype_interactions.pse / V176M_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 V176M 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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