First comprehensive in silico analysis of the functional and structural consequences of SNPs in human GalNAc-T1 gene

Comput Math Methods Med. 2014:2014:904052. doi: 10.1155/2014/904052. Epub 2014 Mar 4.

Abstract

GalNAc-T1, a key candidate of GalNac-transferases genes family that is involved in mucin-type O-linked glycosylation pathway, is expressed in most biological tissues and cell types. Despite the reported association of GalNAc-T1 gene mutations with human disease susceptibility, the comprehensive computational analysis of coding, noncoding and regulatory SNPs, and their functional impacts on protein level, still remains unknown. Therefore, sequence- and structure-based computational tools were employed to screen the entire listed coding SNPs of GalNAc-T1 gene in order to identify and characterize them. Our concordant in silico analysis by SIFT, PolyPhen-2, PANTHER-cSNP, and SNPeffect tools, identified the potential nsSNPs (S143P, G258V, and Y414D variants) from 18 nsSNPs of GalNAc-T1. Additionally, 2 regulatory SNPs (rs72964406 and #x26; rs34304568) were also identified in GalNAc-T1 by using FastSNP tool. Using multiple computational approaches, we have systematically classified the functional mutations in regulatory and coding regions that can modify expression and function of GalNAc-T1 enzyme. These genetic variants can further assist in better understanding the wide range of disease susceptibility associated with the mucin-based cell signalling and pathogenic binding, and may help to develop novel therapeutic elements for associated diseases.

MeSH terms

  • Algorithms
  • Amino Acid Sequence
  • Bayes Theorem
  • Binding Sites
  • Computational Biology / methods
  • Computer Simulation
  • Conserved Sequence
  • Data Mining / methods
  • Disease Susceptibility
  • Evolution, Molecular
  • Humans
  • Hydrogen Bonding
  • Ligands
  • Models, Molecular
  • Molecular Conformation
  • Molecular Sequence Data
  • Mutation
  • N-Acetylgalactosaminyltransferases / genetics*
  • Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide*
  • Polypeptide N-acetylgalactosaminyltransferase
  • Protein Binding
  • Protein Interaction Mapping
  • Sequence Homology, Amino Acid
  • Software
  • Static Electricity

Substances

  • Ligands
  • N-Acetylgalactosaminyltransferases