[HTML][HTML] Analysis and interpretation of the impact of missense variants in cancer

M Petrosino, L Novak, A Pasquo, R Chiaraluce… - International journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Large scale genome sequencing allowed the identification of a massive number of genetic
variations, whose impact on human health is still unknown. In this review we analyze, by an …

Loss-of-function, gain-of-function and dominant-negative mutations have profoundly different effects on protein structure

L Gerasimavicius, BJ Livesey, JA Marsh - Nature communications, 2022 - nature.com
Most known pathogenic mutations occur in protein-coding regions of DNA and change the
way proteins are made. Taking protein structure into account has therefore provided great …

An AAV capsid reprogrammed to bind human transferrin receptor mediates brain-wide gene delivery

Q Huang, KY Chan, J Wu, NR Botticello-Romero… - Science, 2024 - science.org
Develo** vehicles that efficiently deliver genes throughout the human central nervous
system (CNS) will broaden the range of treatable genetic diseases. We engineered an …

Molecular and cellular evolution of the primate dorsolateral prefrontal cortex

S Ma, M Skarica, Q Li, C Xu, RD Risgaard… - Science, 2022 - science.org
The granular dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (dlPFC) is an evolutionary specialization of
primates that is centrally involved in cognition. We assessed more than 600,000 single …

Mutation informatics: SARS-CoV-2 receptor-binding domain of the spike protein

S Verma, VM Patil, MK Gupta - Drug Discovery Today, 2022 - Elsevier
Highlights•Mutation informatics study on RBD of SARS-CoV-2 variants.•Discussion of small
molecules targeting the RBD/ACE2 interface.•Ideation to design novel inhibitors against wild …

Activating Point Mutations in the MET Kinase Domain Represent a Unique Molecular Subset of Lung Cancer and Other Malignancies Targetable with MET Inhibitors

F Pecci, S Nakazawa, B Ricciuti, G Harada… - Cancer …, 2024 - aacrjournals.org
Activating point mutations in the MET tyrosine kinase domain (TKD) are oncogenic in a
subset of papillary renal cell carcinomas. Here, using comprehensive genomic profiling …

[HTML][HTML] Analysis of missense variants in the human genome reveals widespread gene-specific clustering and improves prediction of pathogenicity

M Quinodoz, VG Peter, K Cisarova… - The American Journal of …, 2022 - cell.com
We used a machine learning approach to analyze the within-gene distribution of missense
variants observed in hereditary conditions and cancer. When applied to 840 genes from the …

Predicting functional effect of missense variants using graph attention neural networks

H Zhang, MS Xu, X Fan, WK Chung… - Nature Machine …, 2022 - nature.com
Accurate prediction of damaging missense variants is critically important for interpreting a
genome sequence. Although many methods have been developed, their performance has …

SLC6A1 variant pathogenicity, molecular function and phenotype: a genetic and clinical analysis

A Stefanski, E Pérez-Palma, T Brünger, L Montanucci… - Brain, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Genetic variants in the SLC6A1 gene can cause a broad phenotypic disease spectrum by
altering the protein function. Thus, systematically curated clinically relevant genotype …

Genomics 2 Proteins portal: a resource and discovery tool for linking genetic screening outputs to protein sequences and structures

S Kwon, J Safer, DT Nguyen, D Hoksza, P May… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Recent advances in AI-based methods have revolutionized the field of structural biology.
Concomitantly, high-throughput sequencing and functional genomics have generated …