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UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot P14136: Variant p.Asp295Asn

Glial fibrillary acidic protein
Gene: GFAP
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Variant information Variant position: help 295 The position of the amino-acid change on the UniProtKB canonical protein sequence.
Type of variant: help LB/B The variants are classified into three categories: LP/P, LB/B and US.
  • LP/P: likely pathogenic or pathogenic.
  • LB/B: likely benign or benign.
  • US: uncertain significance

Residue change: help From Aspartate (D) to Asparagine (N) at position 295 (D295N, p.Asp295Asn). Indicates the amino acid change of the variant. The one-letter and three-letter codes for amino acids used in UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot are those adopted by the commission on Biochemical Nomenclature of the IUPAC-IUB.
Physico-chemical properties: help Change from medium size and acidic (D) to medium size and polar (N) The physico-chemical property of the reference and variant residues and the change implicated.
BLOSUM score: help 1 The score within a Blosum matrix for the corresponding wild-type to variant amino acid change. The log-odds score measures the logarithm for the ratio of the likelihood of two amino acids appearing by chance. The Blosum62 substitution matrix is used. This substitution matrix contains scores for all possible exchanges of one amino acid with another:
  • Lowest score: -4 (low probability of substitution).
  • Highest score: 11 (high probability of substitution).
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Other resources: help Links to websites of interest for the variant.


Sequence information Variant position: help 295 The position of the amino-acid change on the UniProtKB canonical protein sequence.
Protein sequence length: help 432 The length of the canonical sequence.
Location on the sequence: help LRQAKHEANDYRRQLQSLTC D LESLRGTNESLERQMREQEE The residue change on the sequence. Unless the variant is located at the beginning or at the end of the protein sequence, both residues upstream (20) and downstream (20) of the variant will be shown.
Residue conservation: help The multiple alignment of the region surrounding the variant against various orthologous sequences.
Human                         LRQAKHEANDYRRQLQSLTCDLESLRGTNESLERQMREQEE

Mouse                         LRQAKHEANDYRRQLQALTCDLESLRGTNESLERQMREQEE

Rat                           LRQAKHEANDYRRQLQALTCDLESLRGTNESLERQMREQEE

Bovine                        LRQAKHEANDYRRQLQALTCDLESLRGTNESLERQMREQEE

Zebrafish                     LRQAKQEANDYRRQIQGLTCDLESLRGSNESLERQLREMEE

Sequence annotation in neighborhood: help The regions or sites of interest surrounding the variant. In general the features listed are posttranslational modifications, binding sites, enzyme active sites, local secondary structure or other characteristics reported in the cited references. The "Sequence annotation in neighborhood" lines have a fixed format:
  • Type: the type of sequence feature.
  • Positions: endpoints of the sequence feature.
  • Description: contains additional information about the feature.
TypePositionsDescription
Chain 1 – 432 Glial fibrillary acidic protein
Domain 69 – 377 IF rod
Region 257 – 377 Coil 2B



Literature citations
Determination of the gene structure of human GFAP and absence of coding region mutations associated with frontotemporal dementia with parkinsonism linked to chromosome 17.
Isaacs A.; Baker M.; Wavrant-De Vrieze F.; Hutton M.;
Genomics 51:152-154(1998)
Cited for: NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE [MRNA] (ISOFORM 1); VARIANT ASN-295; Mutations in GFAP, encoding glial fibrillary acidic protein, are associated with Alexander disease.
Brenner M.; Johnson A.B.; Boespflug-Tanguy O.; Rodriguez D.; Goldman J.E.; Messing A.;
Nat. Genet. 27:117-120(2001)
Cited for: INVOLVEMENT IN ALXDRD; VARIANTS ALXDRD CYS-79; HIS-79; CYS-239; HIS-239; PRO-258 AND TRP-416; VARIANTS LEU-47 AND ASN-295;
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