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. 2015 Oct 22;17(5):841–862. doi: 10.1093/bib/bbv084

Table 5.

Examples of the functional variants located in sequence features perturbing diverse functional and structural effects in proteins

Variant location Description URL
Protein domain DMDM: A database that compiles domain mapping of disease mutations have information about 202 507 mutations associated with 10 919 domains (compiled from CDD, Pfam, COG and SMART databases). http://bioinf.umbc.edu/dmdm/
Phosphorylation site Mutation of an AKT phosphorylation site of human B-raf. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15791648
Propeptide Mutation in the von Willebrand factor (VWF) propeptide affects the oligomerization. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20335223
Signal peptide Mutation in signal peptide of ADAMTS10 influence secretion of full-length enzyme. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18567016
Active site Mutation in the active site of human deoxycytidine kinase affects the substrate specificity. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18361501
Linear motif Linear motifs mediate functional diversity of transcript variants. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22638587
Structural motif Heterozygous missense mutation of a spatially distributed structural motif in human connexin ( GJB3 ) gene cause erythrokeratodermia variabilis. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9843209
Subcellular localization Missense mutations in the NPHS2 gene altering the trafficking of nephrin to the plasma membrane. www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15496146