Congenital stationary night blindness: an analysis and update of genotype–phenotype correlations and pathogenic mechanisms

C Zeitz, AG Robson, I Audo - Progress in retinal and eye research, 2015 - Elsevier
Congenital stationary night blindness (CSNB) refers to a group of genetically and clinically
heterogeneous retinal disorders. Seventeen different genes with more than 360 different …

[HTML][HTML] Engineering enzyme access tunnels

P Kokkonen, D Bednar, G Pinto, Z Prokop… - Biotechnology …, 2019 - Elsevier
Enzymes are efficient and specific catalysts for many essential reactions in biotechnological
and pharmaceutical industries. Many times, the natural enzymes do not display the catalytic …

[HTML][HTML] Can predicted protein 3D structures provide reliable insights into whether missense variants are disease associated?

S Ittisoponpisan, SA Islam, T Khanna, E Alhuzimi… - Journal of molecular …, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract Knowledge of protein structure can be used to predict the phenotypic consequence
of a missense variant. Since structural coverage of the human proteome can be roughly …

Tryptophan depletion results in tryptophan-to-phenylalanine substitutants

A Pataskar, J Champagne, R Nagel, J Kenski, M Laos… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Activated T cells secrete interferon-γ, which triggers intracellular tryptophan shortage by
upregulating the indoleamine 2, 3-dioxygenase 1 (IDO1) enzyme,,–. Here we show that …

X-exome sequencing of 405 unresolved families identifies seven novel intellectual disability genes

H Hu, SA Haas, J Chelly, H Van Esch, M Raynaud… - Molecular …, 2016 - nature.com
X-linked intellectual disability (XLID) is a clinically and genetically heterogeneous disorder.
During the past two decades in excess of 100 X-chromosome ID genes have been …

Deleterious variants in X-linked CFAP47 induce asthenoteratozoospermia and primary male infertility

C Liu, C Tu, L Wang, H Wu, BJ Houston… - The American Journal of …, 2021 - cell.com
Asthenoteratozoospermia characterized by multiple morphological abnormalities of the
flagella (MMAF) has been identified as a sub-type of male infertility. Recent progress has …

Spliceosome malfunction causes neurodevelopmental disorders with overlap** features

D Li, Q Wang, A Bayat, MR Battig… - The Journal of …, 2024 - Am Soc Clin Investig
Pre-mRNA splicing is a highly coordinated process. While its dysregulation has been linked
to neurological deficits, our understanding of the underlying molecular and cellular …

Molecular mechanisms of disease-causing missense mutations

S Stefl, H Nishi, M Petukh, AR Panchenko… - Journal of molecular …, 2013 - Elsevier
Genetic variations resulting in a change of amino acid sequence can have a dramatic effect
on stability, hydrogen bond network, conformational dynamics, activity and many other …

SNPeffect 4.0: on-line prediction of molecular and structural effects of protein-coding variants

G De Baets, J Van Durme, J Reumers… - Nucleic acids …, 2012 - academic.oup.com
Single nucleotide variants (SNVs) are, together with copy number variation, the primary
source of variation in the human genome and are associated with phenotypic variation such …

Exome Sequencing Identifies SMAD3 Mutations as a Cause of Familial Thoracic Aortic Aneurysm and Dissection With Intracranial and Other Arterial Aneurysms

ES Regalado, D Guo, C Villamizar, N Avidan… - Circulation …, 2011 - Am Heart Assoc
Rationale: Thoracic aortic aneurysms leading to acute aortic dissections (TAAD) can be
inherited in families in an autosomal dominant manner. As part of the spectrum of clinical …