Incidental Mutation 'G5030:Usp40'
ID 510
Institutional Source Beutler Lab
Gene Symbol Usp40
Ensembl Gene ENSMUSG00000005501
Gene Name ubiquitin specific peptidase 40
Synonyms B230215L03Rik
Accession Numbers
Essential gene? Non essential (E-score: 0.000) question?
Stock # G5030 (G3) of strain 560
Quality Score
Status Validated
Chromosome 1
Chromosomal Location 87872841-87936273 bp(-) (GRCm39)
Type of Mutation missense
DNA Base Change (assembly) A to T at 87921941 bp (GRCm39)
Zygosity Heterozygous
Amino Acid Change Histidine to Glutamine at position 307 (H307Q)
Ref Sequence ENSEMBL: ENSMUSP00000140107 (fasta)
Gene Model predicted gene model for transcript(s): [ENSMUST00000040783] [ENSMUST00000187758] [ENSMUST00000188332]
AlphaFold Q8BWR4
Predicted Effect probably damaging
Transcript: ENSMUST00000040783
AA Change: H307Q

PolyPhen 2 Score 0.996 (Sensitivity: 0.55; Specificity: 0.98)
SMART Domains Protein: ENSMUSP00000038533
Gene: ENSMUSG00000005501
AA Change: H307Q

DomainStartEndE-ValueType
Pfam:UCH 40 344 1.1e-31 PFAM
Pfam:UCH_1 41 320 1.2e-20 PFAM
low complexity region 641 650 N/A INTRINSIC
Predicted Effect noncoding transcript
Transcript: ENSMUST00000186315
Predicted Effect probably damaging
Transcript: ENSMUST00000187758
AA Change: H307Q

PolyPhen 2 Score 0.996 (Sensitivity: 0.55; Specificity: 0.98)
SMART Domains Protein: ENSMUSP00000140107
Gene: ENSMUSG00000005501
AA Change: H307Q

DomainStartEndE-ValueType
Pfam:UCH 40 346 8.7e-41 PFAM
Pfam:UCH_1 41 319 2.4e-22 PFAM
low complexity region 641 650 N/A INTRINSIC
Predicted Effect probably benign
Transcript: ENSMUST00000188332
SMART Domains Protein: ENSMUSP00000140574
Gene: ENSMUSG00000005501

DomainStartEndE-ValueType
Pfam:UCH 40 70 5.9e-6 PFAM
Meta Mutation Damage Score 0.5251 question?
Coding Region Coverage
  • 1x: 81.1%
  • 3x: 60.2%
Het Detection Efficiency 35.6%
Validation Efficiency 87% (206/237)
MGI Phenotype FUNCTION: [Summary is not available for the mouse gene. This summary is for the human ortholog.] Modification of cellular proteins by ubiquitin is an essential regulatory mechanism controlled by the coordinated action of multiple ubiquitin-conjugating and deubiquitinating enzymes. USP40 belongs to a large family of cysteine proteases that function as deubiquitinating enzymes (Quesada et al., 2004 [PubMed 14715245]).[supplied by OMIM, Mar 2008]
Allele List at MGI

All alleles(4) : Targeted, other(2) Gene trapped(2)

Other mutations in this stock
Total: 30 list
GeneRefVarChr/LocMutationPredicted EffectZygosity
Abca8a T A 11: 109,961,165 (GRCm39) I585F probably damaging Het
Adam18 C G 8: 25,141,872 (GRCm39) L232F probably benign Homo
Atp13a4 A G 16: 29,274,306 (GRCm39) I385T probably damaging Homo
Ccdc17 T A 4: 116,455,699 (GRCm39) S277T probably benign Het
Ccng1 A G 11: 40,644,629 (GRCm39) probably benign Het
Ces1f T C 8: 94,000,847 (GRCm39) D99G probably benign Het
Clec16a G A 16: 10,389,425 (GRCm39) R187Q probably damaging Homo
Cryl1 C T 14: 57,579,595 (GRCm39) probably benign Het
Cryzl2 C T 1: 157,292,580 (GRCm39) Q48* probably null Het
Dtx4 A G 19: 12,446,943 (GRCm39) L583P probably benign Het
Ephx4 A T 5: 107,577,693 (GRCm39) D339V probably damaging Het
Eri2 A T 7: 119,385,601 (GRCm39) V300E possibly damaging Het
F3 T A 3: 121,518,648 (GRCm39) N37K probably damaging Homo
Fpr1 A T 17: 18,097,068 (GRCm39) L307H probably damaging Het
Fv1 T A 4: 147,953,618 (GRCm39) N61K possibly damaging Het
Gm5548 T C 3: 112,961,512 (GRCm39) noncoding transcript Homo
Il1r1 A G 1: 40,352,323 (GRCm39) K498E possibly damaging Homo
Myh11 T C 16: 14,068,443 (GRCm39) I192M probably damaging Homo
Nckap5 T C 1: 125,953,591 (GRCm39) K923R probably damaging Het
Nmbr A T 10: 14,642,747 (GRCm39) Y102F possibly damaging Het
Or6c75 A G 10: 129,337,406 (GRCm39) T218A probably benign Homo
Pde1a C T 2: 79,718,180 (GRCm39) probably benign Het
Pex6 T C 17: 47,026,382 (GRCm39) probably benign Het
Rtn2 T C 7: 19,027,099 (GRCm39) S305P probably damaging Homo
Saal1 G A 7: 46,342,207 (GRCm39) T412I probably damaging Homo
Slc46a2 A T 4: 59,913,867 (GRCm39) I352N probably damaging Het
Trim37 A T 11: 87,033,967 (GRCm39) H99L probably damaging Het
Tubgcp4 C T 2: 121,014,815 (GRCm39) R242C probably damaging Het
Twf2 C A 9: 106,084,141 (GRCm39) L27I possibly damaging Het
Zfhx3 T G 8: 109,678,091 (GRCm39) V3047G possibly damaging Het
Other mutations in Usp40
AlleleSourceChrCoordTypePredicted EffectPPH Score
IGL00264:Usp40 APN 1 87,931,960 (GRCm39) splice site probably benign
IGL00828:Usp40 APN 1 87,906,028 (GRCm39) unclassified probably benign
IGL01090:Usp40 APN 1 87,890,187 (GRCm39) missense probably benign 0.01
IGL01123:Usp40 APN 1 87,913,845 (GRCm39) missense probably benign 0.01
IGL01401:Usp40 APN 1 87,921,920 (GRCm39) missense probably damaging 1.00
IGL02506:Usp40 APN 1 87,909,738 (GRCm39) missense probably damaging 0.98
IGL02580:Usp40 APN 1 87,908,688 (GRCm39) splice site probably null
IGL02625:Usp40 APN 1 87,877,739 (GRCm39) missense probably benign 0.19
IGL02811:Usp40 APN 1 87,923,458 (GRCm39) missense probably damaging 1.00
IGL02958:Usp40 APN 1 87,906,207 (GRCm39) missense probably damaging 0.99
Brink UTSW 1 87,908,755 (GRCm39) missense probably benign 0.11
void UTSW 1 87,923,435 (GRCm39) nonsense probably null
R0019:Usp40 UTSW 1 87,906,133 (GRCm39) missense probably benign 0.00
R0282:Usp40 UTSW 1 87,908,680 (GRCm39) splice site probably benign
R0453:Usp40 UTSW 1 87,874,320 (GRCm39) makesense probably null
R0646:Usp40 UTSW 1 87,906,244 (GRCm39) missense probably benign 0.00
R1440:Usp40 UTSW 1 87,909,808 (GRCm39) missense probably benign 0.01
R1490:Usp40 UTSW 1 87,916,687 (GRCm39) nonsense probably null
R1620:Usp40 UTSW 1 87,921,947 (GRCm39) missense probably damaging 1.00
R1881:Usp40 UTSW 1 87,921,993 (GRCm39) missense probably benign 0.08
R1903:Usp40 UTSW 1 87,909,778 (GRCm39) missense probably benign 0.15
R1912:Usp40 UTSW 1 87,874,368 (GRCm39) missense probably benign 0.00
R1919:Usp40 UTSW 1 87,923,564 (GRCm39) missense possibly damaging 0.75
R1976:Usp40 UTSW 1 87,906,258 (GRCm39) missense probably benign 0.00
R2111:Usp40 UTSW 1 87,877,936 (GRCm39) missense probably benign 0.17
R2112:Usp40 UTSW 1 87,877,936 (GRCm39) missense probably benign 0.17
R2163:Usp40 UTSW 1 87,923,580 (GRCm39) splice site probably benign
R2432:Usp40 UTSW 1 87,909,804 (GRCm39) missense probably benign
R2865:Usp40 UTSW 1 87,877,701 (GRCm39) nonsense probably null
R3885:Usp40 UTSW 1 87,894,991 (GRCm39) missense probably damaging 1.00
R4360:Usp40 UTSW 1 87,880,083 (GRCm39) missense probably damaging 1.00
R4370:Usp40 UTSW 1 87,925,597 (GRCm39) missense probably benign
R4496:Usp40 UTSW 1 87,923,459 (GRCm39) missense possibly damaging 0.69
R4714:Usp40 UTSW 1 87,894,901 (GRCm39) splice site probably null
R4888:Usp40 UTSW 1 87,913,923 (GRCm39) critical splice acceptor site probably null
R4944:Usp40 UTSW 1 87,880,077 (GRCm39) missense probably benign 0.10
R5269:Usp40 UTSW 1 87,923,504 (GRCm39) missense probably benign 0.01
R5629:Usp40 UTSW 1 87,908,731 (GRCm39) missense probably benign
R5696:Usp40 UTSW 1 87,923,474 (GRCm39) missense probably benign 0.27
R5756:Usp40 UTSW 1 87,879,413 (GRCm39) missense possibly damaging 0.66
R5887:Usp40 UTSW 1 87,927,592 (GRCm39) missense probably damaging 1.00
R5910:Usp40 UTSW 1 87,896,122 (GRCm39) nonsense probably null
R6014:Usp40 UTSW 1 87,907,738 (GRCm39) missense probably damaging 1.00
R6044:Usp40 UTSW 1 87,917,872 (GRCm39) missense probably benign
R6083:Usp40 UTSW 1 87,906,281 (GRCm39) missense probably benign 0.01
R6299:Usp40 UTSW 1 87,925,649 (GRCm39) missense probably damaging 0.99
R6625:Usp40 UTSW 1 87,894,935 (GRCm39) missense probably benign 0.01
R6757:Usp40 UTSW 1 87,907,759 (GRCm39) missense probably damaging 0.99
R6810:Usp40 UTSW 1 87,908,755 (GRCm39) missense probably benign 0.11
R7110:Usp40 UTSW 1 87,913,884 (GRCm39) missense probably benign 0.11
R7573:Usp40 UTSW 1 87,913,794 (GRCm39) missense probably benign 0.09
R7575:Usp40 UTSW 1 87,877,682 (GRCm39) missense probably damaging 1.00
R7634:Usp40 UTSW 1 87,890,152 (GRCm39) nonsense probably null
R7756:Usp40 UTSW 1 87,894,922 (GRCm39) missense probably damaging 0.99
R7767:Usp40 UTSW 1 87,909,900 (GRCm39) missense probably benign 0.01
R7861:Usp40 UTSW 1 87,909,852 (GRCm39) missense probably damaging 0.99
R7881:Usp40 UTSW 1 87,923,435 (GRCm39) nonsense probably null
R7896:Usp40 UTSW 1 87,906,201 (GRCm39) missense possibly damaging 0.77
R8119:Usp40 UTSW 1 87,895,400 (GRCm39) splice site probably null
R8354:Usp40 UTSW 1 87,908,694 (GRCm39) missense probably benign 0.00
R8358:Usp40 UTSW 1 87,908,770 (GRCm39) missense possibly damaging 0.71
R8425:Usp40 UTSW 1 87,887,558 (GRCm39) missense probably benign
R8446:Usp40 UTSW 1 87,906,190 (GRCm39) missense probably benign
R8454:Usp40 UTSW 1 87,908,694 (GRCm39) missense probably benign 0.00
R8744:Usp40 UTSW 1 87,911,491 (GRCm39) missense probably benign
R9002:Usp40 UTSW 1 87,935,063 (GRCm39) missense probably benign
R9033:Usp40 UTSW 1 87,923,499 (GRCm39) utr 3 prime probably benign
R9210:Usp40 UTSW 1 87,885,035 (GRCm39) missense possibly damaging 0.90
R9245:Usp40 UTSW 1 87,878,009 (GRCm39) missense probably benign
R9331:Usp40 UTSW 1 87,901,828 (GRCm39) missense probably damaging 1.00
R9378:Usp40 UTSW 1 87,885,032 (GRCm39) missense probably damaging 1.00
R9379:Usp40 UTSW 1 87,881,889 (GRCm39) missense probably benign
R9501:Usp40 UTSW 1 87,925,557 (GRCm39) missense probably benign 0.01
R9535:Usp40 UTSW 1 87,935,161 (GRCm39) start gained probably benign
R9537:Usp40 UTSW 1 87,935,117 (GRCm39) missense probably benign 0.01
RF006:Usp40 UTSW 1 87,894,917 (GRCm39) missense possibly damaging 0.47
Z1177:Usp40 UTSW 1 87,896,136 (GRCm39) missense probably damaging 1.00
Nature of Mutation
DNA sequencing using the SOLiD technique identified a T to A transversion at position 1054 of the Usp40 transcript in exon 8 of 28 total exons. Two transcripts of the Usp40 gene are displayed on Ensembl.  The mutated nucleotide causes a histidine to glutamine substitution at amino acid 307 of the encoded protein. The mutation has been confirmed by DNA sequencing using the Sanger method (Figure 1).
Protein Function and Prediction

The Usp40 gene encodes a 1235 amino acid protein that belongs to a large family of cysteine proteases that function as deubiquitinating enzymes. These enzymes catalyze the thiol-dependent hydrolysis of ester, thioester, amide, peptide and isopeptide bonds formed by the C-terminal Gly of ubiquitin.  Cys 50 (the nucleophile) and His 305 (the proton acceptor) are key catalytical residues. Several isoforms of this protein have been reported (Uniprot Q8BWR4).

The H307Q change occurs close to the key catalytic histidine (His 305), and is predicted to be probably damaging by the PolyPhen program (see report).
Posted On 2010-10-26