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ArticleNucleic acids research2016

Localized structural frustration for evaluating the impact of sequence variants.

Sushant Kumar, Declan Clarke, Mark Gerstein

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Article in Nucleic acids research, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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9citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

9 citing papers in PubMed, 19 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Frustration in physiology and molecular medicine.Molecular aspects of medicine · 2025
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  6. Leveraging protein dynamics to identify cancer mutational hotspots using 3D structures.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2019
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  7. Insights into genetics, human biology and disease gleaned from family based genomic studies.Genetics in medicine : official journal of the American College of Medical Genetics · 2019
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  9. Frustration, function and folding.Current opinion in structural biology · 2018
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Sushant KumarProgram in Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Yale University, 260/266 Whitney Avenue PO Box 208114, New Haven, CT 06520, USA.
Declan ClarkeProgram in Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Yale University, 260/266 Whitney Avenue PO Box 208114, New Haven, CT 06520, USA.
Mark GersteinProgram in Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Yale University, 260/266 Whitney Avenue PO Box 208114, New Haven, CT 06520, USA mark@gersteinlab.org.
Whitney Museum of American Art · US

Funding

Yale Center for Mendelian GenomicsUM1HG006504 · NHGRI · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI GERSTEIN, MARK BENDER, GUNEL, MURAT · 2016 to 2020
$14.8M
An Integrative Analysis of Structural Variation for the 1000 Genomes ProjectU41HG007497 · NHGRI · JACKSON LABORATORY · PI LEE, CHARLES · 2013 to 2017
$13.0M
NHGRI NIH HHS U41 HG007497NHGRI NIH HHS UM1 HG006504
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Population-scale sequencing is increasingly uncovering large numbers of rare single-nucleotide variants (SNVs) in coding regions of the genome. The rarity of these variants makes it challenging to evaluate their deleteriousness with conventional phenotype-genotype associations. Protein structures provide a way of addressing this challenge. Previous efforts have focused on globally quantifying the impact of SNVs on protein stability. However, local perturbations may severely impact protein functionality without strongly disrupting global stability (e.g. in relation to catalysis or allostery). Here, we describe a workflow in which localized frustration, quantifying unfavorable local interactions, is employed as a metric to investigate such effects. Using this workflow on the Protein Databank, we find that frustration produces many immediately intuitive results: for instance, disease-related SNVs create stronger changes in localized frustration than non-disease related variants, and rare SNVs tend to disrupt local interactions to a larger extent than common variants. Less obviously, we observe that somatic SNVs associated with oncogenes and tumor suppressor genes (TSGs) induce very different changes in frustration. In particular, those associated with TSGs change the frustration more in the core than the surface (by introducing loss-of-function events), whereas those associated with oncogenes manifest the opposite pattern, creating gain-of-function events.

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Genetic VariationOncogenesComputational BiologyDatabases, ProteinEvolution, MolecularGenes, Tumor SuppressorHumansNeoplasmsPolymorphism, Single NucleotideProteinsWorkflowProteins

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PMID27915290
PMCPMC5137452
OpenAlexW2952313836

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