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Record W4211053972 · doi:10.1107/s010876732109005x

Structural characterization of missense mutation identified in BRCA2 using comparative biophysical and dynamics studies

2021· article· en· W4211053972 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueActa Crystallographica Section A Foundations and Advances · 2021
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
TopicGenetics, Bioinformatics, and Biomedical Research
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Lethbridge
Fundersnot available
KeywordsMissense mutationBiologyGeneticsMutantHomologous recombinationMutationDNAComputational biologyGene

Abstract

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Breast cancer type 2 susceptibility (BRCA2) protein plays an essential role in the repair of DNA double-strand breaks and interstrand cross-links by Homologous recombination [1].Germ-line mutations in BRCA2 confer an increased risk of hereditary breast and ovarian cancer [2].A large number of missense mutations have been identified in the DNA binding carboxy-terminal domain of BRCA2 which is also known to interact with FANCD2 [3].However, majority of these missense mutations are classified as variants of 'Uncertain Significance' due to lack of structural, functional, and clinical studies.Accurate and reliable methods to predict the pathogenicity of variants are utmost required for better clinical management of the disease.Here we present a multi-disciplinary approach to characterize a missense mutation identified in the C-terminal domain of BRCA2.Different functional domains of the wild-type and mutant BRCA2 protein were cloned and the proteins were expressed and purified in bacterial system.Circulardichroism and Fluorescence spectroscopic techniques were employed to evaluate the differences between secondary and tertiary structures of wild-type and mutant protein.Molecular Dynamics Simulation was further utilized to measure the effect of mutations on the structural conformation of the protein.

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metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
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Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Bench or experimental · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.846
Threshold uncertainty score0.333

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Opus teacher head0.030
GPT teacher head0.334
Teacher spread0.304 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it