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Widespread macromolecular interaction perturbations in human genetic disorders

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Sahni, Nidhi, Yi, Song, Taipale, Mikko, Fuxman Bass, Juan I., Coulombe-Huntington, Jasmin, Yang, Fan, Peng, Jian, Weile, Jochen +40 more·2015·Cell

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How disease-associated mutations impair protein activities in the context of biological networks remains mostly undetermined. Although a few renowned alleles are well characterized, functional information is missing for over 100,000 disease-associated variants. Here we functionally profile several thousand missense mutations across a spectrum of Mendelian disorders using various interaction assays. The majority of disease-associated alleles exhibit wild-type chaperone binding profiles, suggesting they preserve protein folding or stability. While common variants from healthy individuals rarely affect interactions, two-thirds of disease-associated alleles perturb protein-protein interactions, with half corresponding to "edgetic" alleles affecting only a subset of interactions while leaving most other interactions unperturbed. With transcription factors, many alleles that leave protein-protein interactions intact affect DNA binding. Different mutations in the same gene leading to different interaction profiles often result in distinct disease phenotypes. Thus disease-associated alleles that perturb distinct protein activities rather than grossly affecting folding and stability are relatively widespread.

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Sahni, N., Yi, S., Taipale, M., Fuxman Bass, J. I., Coulombe-Huntington, J., Yang, F., Peng, J., Weile, J., Karras, G. I., Wang, Y., Kovács, I. A., Kamburov, A., Krykbaeva, I., Lam, M. H., Tucker, G., Khurana, V., Sharma, A., Liu, Y.-Y., Yachie, N., Zhong, Q., Shen, Y., Palagi, A., San-Miguel, A., Fan, C., Balcha, D., Dricot, A., Jordan, D. M., Walsh, J. M., Shah, A. A., Yang, X., Stoyanova, A. K., Leighton, A., Calderwood, M. A., Jacob, Y., Cusick, M. E., Salehi-Ashtiani, K., Whitesell, L. J., Sunyaev, S., Berger, B., Barabási, A.-L., Charloteaux, B., Hill, D. E., Hao, T., Roth, F. P., Xia, Y., Walhout, A. J. M., Lindquist, S., & Vidal, M.
Affiliations
  • Harvard University (US)
  • Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research (US)
  • Mount Sinai Hospital (CA)
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology (US)
  • University of Toronto (CA)
  • Northeastern University (US)
  • Brigham and Women's Hospital (US)
  • Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR)
  • Howard Hughes Medical Institute (US)
  • Broad Institute (US)
  • MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (US)
  • Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CA)
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (US)
  • University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School (US)
Corresponding author
  • Lindquist, Susan
  • Vidal, Marc
Venue
Cell
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2015-04
Volume
161
Issue
3
Pages
647-660
ISSN
0092-8674 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2119097398
Cited by
594
References
71
Citations by year
2026: 49 · 2025: 46 · 2024: 63 · 2023: 43 · 2022: 45 · 2021: 54 · 2020: 61 · 2019: 50 · 2018: 66 · 2017: 40 · 2016: 52 · 2015: 24 · 2014: 1
FWCI
41.48
Type
journal article
Language
en
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Locations
  • Cell (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
  • eScholarship@UMassChan (submittedVersion)
  • DSpace@MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
  • Open Repository and Bibliography (University of Liège) (submittedVersion)
  • PMC
Funders
  • Howard Hughes Medical Institute
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
  • National Human Genome Research Institute (R01HG001715, RC4HG006066, U41HG001715, P50HG004233)
  • National Institute of General Medical Sciences (R01GM082971, R01GM081871, GM082971)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genetics › Genomics and Rare Diseases
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Heat shock proteins research
Keywords
disease-associated mutations, missense mutations, protein-protein interaction, protein folding, protein stability, transcription factor-DNA binding, monogenic disorders, genotype-phenotype correlation
MeSH terms
Disease, DNA-Binding Proteins, Humans, Proteins, Open Reading Frames, Protein Folding, Mutation, Missense, Genome-Wide Association Study, Protein Stability, Protein Interaction Maps

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