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Fusion Gene and Fusion Protein Summary

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Fusion Amino Acid Sequences (multiple BPs and multiple gene isoforms)

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Fusion Protein Breakpoint Sequences - (for the Screening of the FusionNeoAntigens)

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Potential FusionNeoAntigens in HLA I - (netMHCpan v4.1 + deepHLApan v1.1)

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Potential FusionNeoAntigens in HLA II - (netMHCIIpan v4.1)

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Fusion Breakpoint 14 AA Peptide Structure - (RoseTTAFold)

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Filtering FusionNeoAntigens Through Checking the Interaction with HLAs in 3D - (Glide)

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Vaccine Design for the FusionNeoAntigens (RNA/protein sequences)

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Potential target of CAR-T therapy development

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Information on the samples that have these potential fusion neoantigens

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Fusion Protein Targeting Drugs - (Manual Curation)

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Fusion Protein Related diseases - (Manual Curation)

Fusion Protein:ALAS1-HHEX

Fusion Gene and Fusion Protein Summary

check button Fusion gene summary
Fusion partner gene informationFusion gene name: ALAS1-HHEX
FusionPDB ID: 3718
FusionGDB2.0 ID: 3718
HgeneTgene
Gene symbol

ALAS1

HHEX

Gene ID

211

3087

Gene name5'-aminolevulinate synthase 1hematopoietically expressed homeobox
SynonymsALAS|ALAS-H|ALAS3|ALASH|MIG4HEX|HMPH|HOX11L-PEN|PRH|PRHX
Cytomap

3p21.2

10q23.33

Type of geneprotein-codingprotein-coding
Description5-aminolevulinate synthase, nonspecific, mitochondrial5-aminolevulinic acid synthase 1aminolevulinate, delta-, synthase 1delta-ALA synthase 1delta-aminolevulinate synthase 1migration-inducing protein 4hematopoietically-expressed homeobox protein HHEXhomeobox protein HEXhomeobox protein PRHhomeobox, hematopoietically expressedproline-rich homeodomain-containing transcription factor
Modification date2020031320200329
UniProtAcc

P13196

Main function of 5'-partner protein:
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Ensembl transtripts involved in fusion geneENST idsENST00000310271, ENST00000394965, 
ENST00000469224, ENST00000484952, 
ENST00000472590, ENST00000492654, 
ENST00000282728, 
Fusion gene scores for assessment (based on all fusion genes of FusionGDB 2.0)* DoF score6 X 6 X 5=1802 X 2 X 2=8
# samples 62
** MAII scorelog2(6/180*10)=-1.58496250072116
possibly effective Gene in Pan-Cancer Fusion Genes (peGinPCFGs).
DoF>8 and MAII<0
log2(2/8*10)=1.32192809488736
Fusion gene context

PubMed: ALAS1 [Title/Abstract] AND HHEX [Title/Abstract] AND fusion [Title/Abstract]

Fusion neoantigen context

PubMed: ALAS1 [Title/Abstract] AND HHEX [Title/Abstract] AND neoantigen [Title/Abstract]

Most frequent breakpoint (based on all fusion genes of FusionGDB 2.0)ALAS1(52242227)-HHEX(94449946), # samples:2
Anticipated loss of major functional domain due to fusion event.ALAS1-HHEX seems lost the major protein functional domain in Hgene partner, which is a CGC by not retaining the major functional domain in the partially deleted in-frame ORF.
ALAS1-HHEX seems lost the major protein functional domain in Hgene partner, which is a essential gene by not retaining the major functional domain in the partially deleted in-frame ORF.
* DoF score (Degree of Frequency) = # partners X # break points X # cancer types
** MAII score (Major Active Isofusion Index) = log2(# samples/DoF score*10)

check button Gene ontology of each fusion partner gene with evidence of Inferred from Direct Assay (IDA) from Entrez
PartnerGeneGO IDGO termPubMed ID
TgeneHHEX

GO:0000122

negative regulation of transcription by RNA polymerase II

10871399|15016828

TgeneHHEX

GO:0006406

mRNA export from nucleus

12554669

TgeneHHEX

GO:0034504

protein localization to nucleus

18713067

TgeneHHEX

GO:0045736

negative regulation of cyclin-dependent protein serine/threonine kinase activity

12554669

TgeneHHEX

GO:0045892

negative regulation of transcription, DNA-templated

10871399|15016828

TgeneHHEX

GO:0045944

positive regulation of transcription by RNA polymerase II

12655000

TgeneHHEX

GO:0070663

regulation of leukocyte proliferation

12554669

TgeneHHEX

GO:0071103

DNA conformation change

18755198



check button Four levels of functional features of fusion genes
Go to FGviewer search page for the most frequent breakpoint (https://ccsmweb.uth.edu/FGviewer/chr3:52242227/chr10:94449946)
- FGviewer provides the online visualization of the retention search of the protein functional features across DNA, RNA, protein, and pathological levels.
- How to search
1. Put your fusion gene symbol.
2. Press the tab key until there will be shown the breakpoint information filled.
4. Go down and press 'Search' tab twice.
4. Go down to have the hyperlink of the search result.
5. Click the hyperlink.
6. See the FGviewer result for your fusion gene.
FGviewer

check buttonRetention analysis results of each fusion partner protein across 39 protein features of UniProt such as six molecule processing features, 13 region features, four site features, six amino acid modification features, two natural variation features, five experimental info features, and 3 secondary structure features, are available here.

check buttonFusion gene breakpoints across ALAS1 (5'-gene)
* Click on the image to open the UCSC genome browser with custom track showing this image in a new window.
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check buttonFusion gene breakpoints across HHEX (3'-gene)
* Click on the image to open the UCSC genome browser with custom track showing this image in a new window.
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Fusion Amino Acid Sequences


check buttonFusion information from ORFfinder translation from full-length transcript sequence from FusionPDB.
HenstTenstHgeneHchrHbpHstrandTgeneTchrTbpTstrandSeq length
(transcript)
BP loci
(transcript)
Predicted start
(transcript)
Predicted stop
(transcript)
Seq length
(amino acids)
ENST00000469224ALAS1chr352242227+ENST00000282728HHEXchr1094449946+289114031961521441
ENST00000394965ALAS1chr352242227+ENST00000282728HHEXchr1094449946+30491561631679538
ENST00000310271ALAS1chr352242227+ENST00000282728HHEXchr1094449946+28341346251464479
ENST00000484952ALAS1chr352242227+ENST00000282728HHEXchr1094449946+301015223151640441

check buttonDeepORF prediction of the coding potential based on the fusion transcript sequence of in-frame fusion genes. DeepORF is a coding potential classifier based on convolutional neural network by comparing the real Ribo-seq data. If the no-coding score < 0.5 and coding score > 0.5, then the in-frame fusion transcript is predicted as being likely translated.
HenstTenstHgeneHchrHbpHstrandTgeneTchrTbpTstrandNo-coding scoreCoding score
ENST00000469224ENST00000282728ALAS1chr352242227+HHEXchr1094449946+0.0027007410.99729925
ENST00000394965ENST00000282728ALAS1chr352242227+HHEXchr1094449946+0.0020195020.99798054
ENST00000310271ENST00000282728ALAS1chr352242227+HHEXchr1094449946+0.0024602480.99753976
ENST00000484952ENST00000282728ALAS1chr352242227+HHEXchr1094449946+0.0024059190.99759406

check button Predicted full-length fusion amino acid sequences. For individual full-length fusion transcript sequence from FusionPDB, we ran ORFfinder and chose the longest ORF among all the predicted ones.

Get the fusion protein sequences from here.

Fusion protein sequence information is available in the fasta format.
>FusionGDB ID_FusionGDB isoform ID_FGname_Hgene_Hchr_Hbp_Henst_Tgene_Tchr_Tbp_Tenst_length(fusion AA) seq_BP

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Fusion Protein Breakpoint Sequences for ALAS1-HHEX

check button +/-13 AA sequence from the breakpoints of the fusion protein sequences.
HgeneHchrHbpTgeneTchrTbpLength(fusion protein)BP in fusion proteinPeptide
ALAS1chr352242227HHEXchr10944499461346441VMPKMDIISGTLGCTSPRRSIQPSRT
ALAS1chr352242227HHEXchr10944499461403403VMPKMDIISGTLGCTSPRRSIQPSRT
ALAS1chr352242227HHEXchr10944499461522403VMPKMDIISGTLGCTSPRRSIQPSRT
ALAS1chr352242227HHEXchr10944499461561500VMPKMDIISGTLGCTSPRRSIQPSRT

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Potential FusionNeoAntigen Information of ALAS1-HHEX in HLA I

check button Multiple sequence alignments of the potential FusionNeoAntigens per fusion breakpoints. If the MSA is empty, then it means that there were predicted fusion neoantigens in this fusion breakpoint, but those predicted fusion neoantigens were not across the breakpoint, which is not fusion-specific.
ALAS1-HHEX_52242227_94449946.msa

check button Potential FusionNeoAntigen Information
* We used NetMHCpan v4.1 (%rank<0.5) and deepHLApan v1.1 (immunogenic score>0.5)
Fusion geneHchrHbpTgeneTchrTbpHLA IFusionNeoAntigen peptideBinding scoreImmunogenic scoreNeoantigen start (at BP 13)Neoantigen end (at BP 13)
ALAS1-HHEXchr352242227chr10944499461346HLA-A31:06GTLGCTSPR0.98980.7458918

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Potential FusionNeoAntigen Information of ALAS1-HHEX in HLA II

check button Multiple sequence alignments of the potential FusionNeoAntigens per fusion breakpoints. If the MSA is empty, then it means that there were predicted fusion neoantigens in this fusion breakpoint, but those predicted fusion neoantigens were not across the breakpoint, which is not fusion-specific.

check button Potential FusionNeoAntigen Information
* We used NetMHCIIpan v4.1 (%rank<0.5).
Fusion geneHchrHbpTgeneTchrTbpHLA IIFusionNeoAntigen peptideNeoantigen start (at BP 13)Neoantigen end (at BP 13)

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Fusion breakpoint peptide structures of ALAS1-HHEX

check button3D structures of the fusion breakpoint peptide of 14AA sequence that have potential fusion neoantigens
* The minimum length of the amino acid sequence in RoseTTAFold is 14AA. Here, we predicted the 14AA fusion protein breakpoint sequence not the fusion neoantigen peptide, which is shorter than 14 AA.
File nameBPseqHgeneTgeneHchrHbpTchrTbpAAlen
3741IISGTLGCTSPRRSALAS1HHEXchr352242227chr10944499461346

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Filtering FusionNeoAntigens Through Checking the Interaction with HLAs in 3D of ALAS1-HHEX

check buttonVirtual screening between 25 HLAs (from PDB) and FusionNeoAntigens
* We used Glide to predict the interaction between HLAs and neoantigens.
HLA allelePDB IDFile nameBPseqDocking scoreGlide score
HLA-B14:023BVN3741IISGTLGCTSPRRS-7.15543-7.26883
HLA-B14:023BVN3741IISGTLGCTSPRRS-4.77435-5.80965
HLA-B52:013W393741IISGTLGCTSPRRS-6.80875-6.92215
HLA-B52:013W393741IISGTLGCTSPRRS-4.20386-5.23916
HLA-A11:014UQ23741IISGTLGCTSPRRS-7.5194-8.5547
HLA-A11:014UQ23741IISGTLGCTSPRRS-6.9601-7.0735
HLA-A24:025HGA3741IISGTLGCTSPRRS-7.52403-7.63743
HLA-A24:025HGA3741IISGTLGCTSPRRS-5.82433-6.85963
HLA-B27:056PYJ3741IISGTLGCTSPRRS-3.28285-4.31815
HLA-B44:053DX83741IISGTLGCTSPRRS-5.91172-6.94702
HLA-B44:053DX83741IISGTLGCTSPRRS-4.24346-4.35686

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Vaccine Design for the FusionNeoAntigens of ALAS1-HHEX

check button mRNA and peptide sequences of FusionNeoAntigens that have potential interaction with HLA-Is.
Fusion geneHchrHbpTchrTbpStart in +/-13AAEnd in +/-13AAFusionNeoAntigen peptide sequenceFusionNeoAntigen RNA sequence
ALAS1-HHEXchr352242227chr1094449946918GTLGCTSPRCTGGAACACTTGGGTGTACGAGCCCAC

check button mRNA and peptide sequences of FusionNeoAntigens that have potential interaction with HLA-IIs.
Fusion geneHchrHbpTchrTbpStart in +/-13AAEnd in +/-13AAFusionNeoAntigen peptideFusionNEoAntigen RNA sequence

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Information of the samples that have these potential fusion neoantigens of ALAS1-HHEX

check button These samples were reported as having these fusion breakpoints. For individual breakpoints, we checked the open reading frames considering multiple gene isoforms and chose the in-frame fusion genes only. Then, we made fusion protein sequences and predicted the fusion neoantigens. These fusion-positive samples may have these potential fusion neoantigens.
Cancer typeFusion geneHchrHbpHenstTchrTbpTenstSample
BRCAALAS1-HHEXchr352242227ENST00000310271chr1094449946ENST00000282728TCGA-AN-A0XT-01A

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Potential target of CAR-T therapy development for ALAS1-HHEX

check button Predicted 3D structure. We used RoseTTAFold.

check buttonRetention analysis result of each fusion partner protein across 39 protein features of UniProt such as six molecule processing features, 13 region features, four site features, six amino acid modification features, two natural variation features, five experimental info features, and 3 secondary structure features. Here, to provide the retention of the transmembrane domain, we only show the protein feature retention information of those transmembrane features


* Minus value of BPloci means that the break point is located before the CDS.
- In-frame and retained 'Transmembrane'.
PartnerGeneHbpTbpENSTStrandBPexonTotalExonProtein feature loci*BPlociTotalLenProtein featureProtein feature note

check button Subcellular localization prediction of the transmembrane domain retained fusion proteins
* We used DeepLoc 1.0. The order of the X-axis of the barplot is as follows: Entry_ID, Localization, Type, Nucleus, Cytoplasm, Extracellular, Mitochondrion, Cell_membrane, Endoplasmic_reticulum, Plastid, Golgi.apparatus, Lysosome.Vacuole, Peroxisome. Y-axis is the output score of DeepLoc. Clicking the image will open a new tab with a large image.
HgeneHchrHbpHenstTgeneTchrTbpTenstDeepLoc result

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Related Drugs to ALAS1-HHEX

check button Drugs used for this fusion-positive patient.
(Manual curation of PubMed, 04-30-2022 + MyCancerGenome)
HgeneTgeneDrugSourcePMID

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Related Diseases to ALAS1-HHEX

check button Diseases that have this fusion gene.
(Manual curation of PubMed, 04-30-2022 + MyCancerGenome)
HgeneTgeneDiseaseSourcePMID

check button Diseases associated with fusion partners.
(DisGeNet 4.0)
PartnerGeneDisease IDDisease name# pubmedsSource