Insilico prediction and functional analysis of nonsynonymous SNPs in human CTLA4 gene

The CTLA4 receptor is an immune checkpoint involved in the downregulation of T cells. Polymorphisms in this gene have been found to be associated with different diseases like rheumatoid arthritis, autosomal dominant immune dysregulation syndrome, juvenile idiopathic arthritis and autoimmune Addison&...

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Published in:	Scientific reports 2022-11, Vol.12 (1), p.20441-20441, Article 20441
Main Authors:	Irfan, Muhammad, Iqbal, Talha, Hashmi, Sakina, Ghani, Uzma, Bhatti, Attya
Format:	Article
Language:	eng
Subjects:	Addison Disease Addison's disease Arthritis Arthritis, Juvenile Bioinformatics CTLA-4 Antigen - genetics CTLA-4 protein Epistasis, Genetic Humans Immune checkpoint Lymphocytes T Phosphorylation Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide Precision medicine Rheumatoid arthritis Single-nucleotide polymorphism Structure-function relationships
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Summary:	The CTLA4 receptor is an immune checkpoint involved in the downregulation of T cells. Polymorphisms in this gene have been found to be associated with different diseases like rheumatoid arthritis, autosomal dominant immune dysregulation syndrome, juvenile idiopathic arthritis and autoimmune Addison's disease. Therefore, the identification of polymorphisms that have an effect on the structure and function of CTLA4 gene is important. Here we identified the most damaging missense or non-synonymous SNPs (nsSNPs) that might be crucial for the structure and function of CTLA4 using different bioinformatics tools. These in silico tools included SIFT, PROVEAN, PhD-SNP, PolyPhen-2 followed by MutPred2, I-Mutant 2.0 and ConSurf. The protein structures were predicted using Phyre2 and I-TASSER, while the gene-gene interactions were predicted by GeneMANIA and STRING. Our study identified three damaging missense SNPs rs1553657429, rs1559591863 and rs778534474 in coding region of CTLA4 gene. Among these SNPs the rs1553657429 showed a loss of potential phosphorylation site and was found to be highly conserved. The prediction of gene-gene interaction showed the interaction of CTlA4 with other genes and its importance in different pathways. This investigation of damaging nsSNPs can be considered in future while studying CTLA4 related diseases and can be of great importance in precision medicine.
ISSN:	2045-2322 2045-2322