In silico analysis and high-risk pathogenic phenotype predictions of non-synonymous single nucleotide polymorphisms in human Crystallin beta A4 gene associated with congenital cataract

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Autoři: Zhenyu Wang ^aff001; Chen Huang ^aff001; Huibin Lv ^aff001; Mingzhou Zhang ^aff001; Xuemin Li ^aff001
Působiště autorů: Department of Ophthalmology, Peking University Third Hospital, Beijing, China ^aff001; Beijing Key Laboratory of Restoration of Damaged Ocular Nerve, Peking University Third Hospital, Beijing, China ^aff002; Medical Research Center, Peking University Third Hospital, Beijing, China ^aff003
Vyšlo v časopise: PLoS ONE 15(1)
Kategorie: Research Article
doi: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0227859

Souhrn

In order to provide a cost-effective method to narrow down the number of pathogenic Crystallin beta A4 (CRYBA4) non-synonymous single nucleotide polymorphisms (nsSNPs), we collected nsSNP information of the CRYBA4 gene from SNP databases and literature, predicting the pathogenicity and possible changes of protein properties and structures using multiple bioinformatics tools. The nsSNP data of the CRYBA4 gene were collected from 4 databases and published literature. According to 12 criteria, six bioinformatics tools were chosen to predict the pathogenicity. I-Mutant 2.0, Mupro and INPS online tools were used to analyze the effects of amino acid substitution on protein stability by calculating the value of ΔΔG. ConSurf, SOPMA, GETAREA and HOPE online tools were used to predict the evolutionary conservation of amino acids, solvent accessible surface areas, and the physical and chemical properties and changes of protein structure. All 157 CRYBA4 nsSNPs were analyzed. Forty-four CRYBA4 high-risk pathogenic nsSNPs (predicted to be pathogenic by all six software tools) were detected out of the 157 CRYBA4 nsSNPs, four of which (c.283C>T, p.R95W; c.449T>A, p.V150D; c.475G>A, p.G159R; c.575G>C, p.R192P) should be focused on because of their high potential pathogenicity and possibility of changing protein properties. Thirty high-risk nsSNPs were predicted to cause a decrease of protein stability. Twenty-nine high-risk nsSNPs occurred in evolutionary conserved positions. Twenty-two high-risk nsSNPs occurred in the core of the protein. It is predicted that these high-risk pathogenic nsSNPs can cause changes in the physical and chemical properties of amino acids, resulting in structural changes of proteins and changes in the interactions between domains and other molecules, thus affecting the function of proteins. This study provides important reference value when narrowing down the number of pathogenic CRYBA4 nsSNPs and studying the pathogenesis of congenital cataracts. By using this method, we can easily find 44 high-risk pathogenic nsSNPs out of 157 CRYBA4 nsSNPs.

Klíčová slova:

Amino acid analysis – Cataracts – Mutation databases – Pathogenesis – Protein interactions – Protein structure – Protein structure prediction – Software tools

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In silico analysis and high-risk pathogenic phenotype predictions of non-synonymous single nucleotide polymorphisms in human Crystallin beta A4 gene associated with congenital cataract

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