Bioinformatic processing to identify single nucleotide polymorphism that potentially affect Ape1 function

Mutation Research
Eizadora T Yu, Masood Z Hadi

Abstract

Inactivation of DNA damage response mechanisms is associated with several disease syndromes, including cancer, aging and neurodegeneration. A major corrective pathway for alkylation or oxidative DNA damage is base excision repair (BER). As part of an effort to identify variation in DNA repair genes, we used the expressed sequence tag (EST) database to identify amino acid variation in Ape1, an essential gene in the BER repair pathway. Nucleotide substitutions were considered valid only if the amino acid changes were observed in at least two independent EST sequencing runs (i.e. two independent EST reports). In total eighty amino acid variants were identified for the Ape1 gene. Using software tools SIFT and PolyPhen, which predict impacts of amino acid substitutions on protein structure and function, twenty-six variants were predicted by both algorithms to be deleterious to protein function. Majority of these intolerant mutations such as V206C and F240S, lie within the core of the protein and may affect the stability and folding of Ape1, or in the case of N212H, N212K, and Y171N, are close to the enzyme's active site and could drastically affect its function. A few of the intolerant mutations, i.e., G178V and E217R, are surface r...Continue Reading

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