Structural characterization and mutational assessment of podocin — A novel drug target to nephrotic syndrome — An in silico approach
0301 basic medicine
Nephrotic Syndrome
Sequence Homology, Amino Acid
Protein Conformation
Molecular Sequence Data
Intracellular Signaling Peptides and Proteins
Computational Biology
Membrane Proteins
Ligands
Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide
3. Good health
03 medical and health sciences
Mutagenesis
Catalytic Domain
Mutation
Humans
Thermodynamics
Computer Simulation
Amino Acid Sequence
DOI:
10.1007/s12539-014-0190-4
Publication Date:
2014-01-27T03:16:37Z
AUTHORS (7)
ABSTRACT
Non-synonymous single nucleotide changes (nSNC) are coding variants that introduce amino acid changes in their corresponding proteins. They can affect protein function; they are believed to have the largest impact on human health compared with SNCs in other regions of the genome. Such a sequence alteration directly affects their structural stability through conformational changes. Presence of these conformational changes near catalytic site or active site may alter protein function and as a consequence receptor-ligand complex interactions. The present investigation includes assessment of human podocin mutations (G92C, P118L, R138Q, and D160G) on its structure. Podocin is an important glomerular integral membrane protein thought to play a key role in steroid resistant nephrotic syndrome. Podocin has a hairpin like structure with 383 amino acids, it is an integral protein homologous to stomatin, and acts as a molecular link in a stretch-sensitive system. We modeled 3D structure of podocin by means of Modeller and validated via PROCHECK to get a Ramachandran plot (88.5% in most favored region), main chain, side chain, bad contacts, gauche and pooled standard deviation. Further, a protein engineering tool Triton was used to induce mutagenesis corresponding to four variants G92C, P118L, R138Q and D160G in the wild type. Perusal of energies of wild and mutated type of podocin structures confirmed that mutated structures were thermodynamically more stable than wild type and therefore biological events favored synthesis of mutated forms of podocin than wild type. As a conclusive part, two mutations G92C (-8179.272 kJ/mol) and P118L (-8136.685 kJ/mol) are more stable and probable to take place in podocin structure over wild podocin structure (-8105.622 kJ/mol). Though there is lesser difference in mutated and wild type (approximately, 74 and 35 kJ/mol), it may play a crucial role in deciding why mutations are favored and occur at the genetic level.
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