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ArticleCurrent research in structural biology2022

HGDiscovery: An online tool providing functional and phenotypic information on novel variants of homogentisate 1,2- dioxigenase.

Malancha Karmakar, Vittoria Cicaloni, Carlos H M Rodrigues, Ottavia Spiga, Annalisa Santucci, David B Ascher

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Article in Current research in structural biology, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

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11 citing papers in PubMed, 10 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

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6 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Malancha KarmakarComputational Biology and Clinical Informatics, Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Vittoria CicaloniComputational Biology and Clinical Informatics, Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Carlos H M RodriguesComputational Biology and Clinical Informatics, Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Ottavia SpigaDepartment of Biotechnology, Chemistry and Pharmacy, University of Siena, Siena, Italy.
Annalisa SantucciDepartment of Biotechnology, Chemistry and Pharmacy, University of Siena, Siena, Italy.
David B AscherComputational Biology and Clinical Informatics, Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute · AUUniversity of Siena · IT

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Alkaptonuria (AKU), a rare genetic disorder, is characterized by the accumulation of homogentisic acid (HGA) in the body. Affected individuals lack functional levels of an enzyme required to breakdown HGA. Mutations in the homogentisate 1,2-dioxygenase (HGD) gene cause AKU and they are responsible for deficient levels of functional HGD, which, in turn, leads to excess levels of HGA. Although HGA is rapidly cleared from the body by the kidneys, in the long term it starts accumulating in various tissues, especially cartilage. Over time (rarely before adulthood), it eventually changes the color of affected tissue to slate blue or black. Here we report a comprehensive mutation analysis of 111 pathogenic and 190 non-pathogenic HGD missense mutations using protein structural information. Using our comprehensive suite of graph-based signature methods, mCSM complemented with sequence-based tools, we studied the functional and molecular consequences of each mutation on protein stability, interaction and evolutionary conservation. The scores generated from the structure and sequence-based tools were used to train a supervised machine learning algorithm with 89% accuracy. The empirical classifier was used to generate the variant phenotype for novel HGD missense mutations. All this information is deployed as a user friendly freely available web server called HGDiscovery (https://biosig.lab.uq.edu.au/hgdiscovery/).

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AlkaptonuriaMachine learningPrecision medicineRare genetic disorderStructural bioinformatics

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PMID36118553
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