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StabilitySort: assessment of protein stability changes on a genome-wide scale to prioritize potentially pathogenic genetic variation

Year: 2022

Type: article

Abstract: SUMMARY: Missense mutations that change protein stability are strongly associated with human genetic disease. With the recent availability of predicted structures for all human proteins generated using the AlphaFold2 prediction model, genome-wide assessment of the stability effects of genetic variation can, for the first time, be easily performed. This facilitates the interrogation of personal genetic variation for potentially pathogenic effects through the application of stability metrics. Here, we present a novel tool to prioritize variants predicted to cause strong instability in essential proteins. We show that by filtering by ΔΔG values and then prioritizing by StabilitySort Z-scores, we are able to more accurately discriminate pathogenic, protein-destabilizing mutations from population variation, compared with other mutation effect predictors. AVAILABILITY AND IMPLEMENTATION: StabilitySort is available as a web service (https://www.stabilitysort.org), as a data download for integration with other tools (https://www.stabilitysort.org/download) or can be deployed as a standalone system from source code (https://gitlab.com/baaron/StabilitySort). SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.

Source: Bioinformatics

DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btac465

Authors: Aaron Chuah, Sean Li, Andrea Do, Matt Field, Dan Andrews

Institutions: Australian National University, Garvan Institute of Medical Research, Menzies School of Health Research, James Cook University

Language: English

Topic: Genomics and Rare Diseases

Subfield: Genetics

Field: Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

Domain: Life Sciences

SDG: Good health and well-being

Open Access status: green

Funder: Bioplatforms Australia