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A Multi-Layered Computational Structural Genomics Approach Enhances Domain-Specific Interpretation of Kleefstra Syndrome Variants in EHMT1

bioRxiv, ISSN: 2692-8205
2023
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A Multi-Layered Computational Structural Genomics Approach Enhances Domain-Specific Interpretation of Kleefstra Syndrome Variants in EHMT1

2023 SEP 26 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Genomics & Genetics Daily -- According to news reporting based on a preprint

Article Description

This study investigates the functional significance of assorted variants of uncertain significance (VUS) in euchromatic histone lysine methyltransferase 1 (EHMT1), which is critical for early development and normal physiology. EHMT1 mutations cause Kleefstra syndrome and are linked to various human cancers. However, accurate functional interpretation of these variants are yet to be made, limiting diagnoses and future research. To overcome this, we integrate conventional tools for variant calling with computational biophysics and biochemistry to conduct multi-layered mechanistic analyses of the SET catalytic domain of EHMT1, which is critical for this protein function. We use molecular mechanics and molecular dynamics (MD)-based metrics to analyze the SET domain structure and functional motions resulting from 97 Kleefstra syndrome missense variants within this domain. Our approach allows us to classify the variants in a mechanistic manner into SV (Structural Variant), DV (Dynamic Variant), SDV (Structural and Dynamic Variant), and VUS (Variant of Uncertain Significance). Our findings reveal that the damaging variants are mostly mapped around the active site, substrate binding site, and pre-SET regions. Overall, we report an improvement for this method over conventional tools for variant interpretation and simultaneously provide a molecular mechanism of variant dysfunction.

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Chi, Young-In; Jorge, Salomão D; Jensen, Davin R; Smith, Brian C; Volkman, Brian F; Mathison, Angela J; Lomberk, Gwen; Zimmermann, Michael T; Urrutia, Raul

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology; Agricultural and Biological Sciences; Immunology and Microbiology; Neuroscience; Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics

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