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Missense variants causing Wiedemann-Steiner syndrome preferentially occur in the KMT2A-CXXC domain and are accurately classified using AlphaFold2
Wiedemann-Steiner syndrome (WDSTS) is a neurodevelopmental disorder caused by de novo variants in KMT2A, which encodes a multi-domain histone methyltransferase. To gain insight into the currently unknown pathogenesis of WDSTS, we examined the spatial distribution of likely WDSTS-causing variants acr...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9249231/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35727845 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1010278 |
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author | Reynisdottir, Tinna Anderson, Kimberley Jade Boukas, Leandros Bjornsson, Hans Tomas |
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description | Wiedemann-Steiner syndrome (WDSTS) is a neurodevelopmental disorder caused by de novo variants in KMT2A, which encodes a multi-domain histone methyltransferase. To gain insight into the currently unknown pathogenesis of WDSTS, we examined the spatial distribution of likely WDSTS-causing variants across the 15 different domains of KMT2A. Compared to variants in healthy controls, WDSTS variants exhibit a 61.9-fold overrepresentation within the CXXC domain–which mediates binding to unmethylated CpGs–suggesting a major role for this domain in mediating the phenotype. In contrast, we find no significant overrepresentation within the catalytic SET domain. Corroborating these results, we find that hippocampal neurons from Kmt2a-deficient mice demonstrate disrupted histone methylation (H3K4me1 and H3K4me3) preferentially at CpG-rich regions, but this has no systematic impact on gene expression. Motivated by these results, we combine accurate prediction of the CXXC domain structure by AlphaFold2 with prior biological knowledge to develop a classification scheme for missense variants in the CXXC domain. Our classifier achieved 92.6% positive and 92.9% negative predictive value on a hold-out test set. This classification performance enabled us to subsequently perform an in silico saturation mutagenesis and classify a total of 445 variants according to their functional effects. Our results yield a novel insight into the mechanistic basis of WDSTS and provide an example of how AlphaFold2 can contribute to the in silico characterization of variant effects with very high accuracy, suggesting a paradigm potentially applicable to many other Mendelian disorders. |
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spelling | pubmed-92492312022-07-02 Missense variants causing Wiedemann-Steiner syndrome preferentially occur in the KMT2A-CXXC domain and are accurately classified using AlphaFold2 Reynisdottir, Tinna Anderson, Kimberley Jade Boukas, Leandros Bjornsson, Hans Tomas PLoS Genet Research Article Wiedemann-Steiner syndrome (WDSTS) is a neurodevelopmental disorder caused by de novo variants in KMT2A, which encodes a multi-domain histone methyltransferase. To gain insight into the currently unknown pathogenesis of WDSTS, we examined the spatial distribution of likely WDSTS-causing variants across the 15 different domains of KMT2A. Compared to variants in healthy controls, WDSTS variants exhibit a 61.9-fold overrepresentation within the CXXC domain–which mediates binding to unmethylated CpGs–suggesting a major role for this domain in mediating the phenotype. In contrast, we find no significant overrepresentation within the catalytic SET domain. Corroborating these results, we find that hippocampal neurons from Kmt2a-deficient mice demonstrate disrupted histone methylation (H3K4me1 and H3K4me3) preferentially at CpG-rich regions, but this has no systematic impact on gene expression. Motivated by these results, we combine accurate prediction of the CXXC domain structure by AlphaFold2 with prior biological knowledge to develop a classification scheme for missense variants in the CXXC domain. Our classifier achieved 92.6% positive and 92.9% negative predictive value on a hold-out test set. This classification performance enabled us to subsequently perform an in silico saturation mutagenesis and classify a total of 445 variants according to their functional effects. Our results yield a novel insight into the mechanistic basis of WDSTS and provide an example of how AlphaFold2 can contribute to the in silico characterization of variant effects with very high accuracy, suggesting a paradigm potentially applicable to many other Mendelian disorders. Public Library of Science 2022-06-21 /pmc/articles/PMC9249231/ /pubmed/35727845 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1010278 Text en © 2022 Reynisdottir et al https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Reynisdottir, Tinna Anderson, Kimberley Jade Boukas, Leandros Bjornsson, Hans Tomas Missense variants causing Wiedemann-Steiner syndrome preferentially occur in the KMT2A-CXXC domain and are accurately classified using AlphaFold2 |
title | Missense variants causing Wiedemann-Steiner syndrome preferentially occur in the KMT2A-CXXC domain and are accurately classified using AlphaFold2 |
title_full | Missense variants causing Wiedemann-Steiner syndrome preferentially occur in the KMT2A-CXXC domain and are accurately classified using AlphaFold2 |
title_fullStr | Missense variants causing Wiedemann-Steiner syndrome preferentially occur in the KMT2A-CXXC domain and are accurately classified using AlphaFold2 |
title_full_unstemmed | Missense variants causing Wiedemann-Steiner syndrome preferentially occur in the KMT2A-CXXC domain and are accurately classified using AlphaFold2 |
title_short | Missense variants causing Wiedemann-Steiner syndrome preferentially occur in the KMT2A-CXXC domain and are accurately classified using AlphaFold2 |
title_sort | missense variants causing wiedemann-steiner syndrome preferentially occur in the kmt2a-cxxc domain and are accurately classified using alphafold2 |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9249231/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35727845 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1010278 |
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