TTRMDb
An amyloid disease database for transthyretin mutants
Sequence
Analysis Tool |
Result |
iMutant 3.0 | Destabilizing |
STRUM | Destabilizing |
iStable | Stabilizing |
Provean | Neutral |
PredictSNP | Neutral |
PhD-SNP | Neutral |
PolyPhen-2 | Neutral |
SIFT | Deleterious |
FATHMM | Damaging |
Structure
Analysis Tool |
Result |
mCSM | Destabilizing |
SDM | Destabilizing |
DUET | Destabilizing |
DynaMut | Destabilizing |
CUPSAT | Stabilizing |
ENCoM | Destabilizing |
FoldX (Protein Stability) | Slightly enhances |
Aggregation
Analysis Tool |
Result |
TANGO (Aggregation Tendency) | No effect |
WALTZ (Amyloid Propensity) | No effect |
LIMBO (Chaperone Binding Tendency) | No effect |
Reported Articles
- Altland K, Benson MD, Costello CE, Ferlini A, Hazenberg BPC, Hund E, et al. Genetic microheterogeneity
of human transthyretin detected by IEF. ELECTROPHORESIS. 2007;28: 2053–2064.
doi:10.1002/elps.200600840
- Gorevic PD, Prelli FC, Wright J, Pras M, and Frangione B. (1989). Systemic senile amyloidosis. Identification
of a new prealbumin (transthyretin) variant in cardiac tissue: Immunologic and biochemical similarity to one
form of familial amyloidotic polyneuropathy. J Clin Invest. 83:836-843
- Jacobson DR, Gorevic PD, and Buxbaum JN. (1990). A homozygous transthyretin variant associated with
senile systemic amyloidosis: evidence for a late-onset disease of genetic etiology.
Am J Hum Genet. 47:127-136
- Jacobson DR, Pastore R, Pool S, Malendowicz S, Kane I, Shivji A, Embury SH, Ballas SK and Buxbaum JN.
(1996). Revised transthyretin Ile122 allele frequency in African-Americans. Hum Genet 98:236-238
- Saraiva MJM, Sherman W, Marboe C, Figueira A, Costa P, De Freitas AF, and Gawinowcz MA. (1990).
Cardiac amyloidosis: Report of a patient heterozygous for the transthyretin isoleucine 122 variant.
Scand J Immunol. 32:341-346
- Nichols WC, Liepnieks JJ, Snyder EL, and Benson MD. (1991). Senile cardiac amyloidosis associated with
homozygosity for a transthyretin variant (ILE-122). J Lab Clin Med. 117:175-180
- Gillmore JD, Booth DR, Pepys MB, and Hawkins PN. (1999). Hereditary cardiac amyloidosis associated with
the transthyretin Ile122 mutation in a white man. Heart (Br Card Soc Online). 82:e2
- Jiang X, Buxbaum JN, Kelly JW. The V122I cardiomyopathy variant of transthyretin increases the velocity
of rate-limiting tetramer dissociation, resulting in accelerated amyloidosis.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2001;98: 14943–14948. doi:10.1073/pnas.261419998
- Buxbaum JN, Ruberg FL. Transthyretin V122I (pV142I)* cardiac amyloidosis: an age-dependent autosomal
dominant cardiomyopathy too common to be overlooked as a cause of significant heart disease in elderly
African Americans. Genet Med. 2017;19: 733–742. doi:10.1038/gim.2016.200
- Manral P, Reixach N. Amyloidogenic and non-amyloidogenic transthyretin variants interact differently with
human cardiomyocytes: insights into early events of non-fibrillar tissue damage. Biosci Rep. 2015;35.
doi:10.1042/BSR20140155
Studies on Therapeutic Strategy*
- Adams D, Gonzalez-Duarte A, O’Riordan WD, Yang C-C, Ueda M, Kristen AV, et
al. Patisiran, an RNAi Therapeutic, for Hereditary Transthyretin Amyloidosis.
N Engl J Med. 2018;379: 11–21. doi:10.1056/NEJMoa1716153
- Benson MD, Waddington-Cruz M, Berk JL, Polydefkis M, Dyck PJ, Wang AK, et
al. Inotersen Treatment for Patients with Hereditary Transthyretin Amyloidosis.
N Engl J Med. 2018;379: 22–31. doi:10.1056/NEJMoa1716793
*includes studies on model organisms and commercially unavailable drugs
Available PDB Structures