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RAG1

Chr 11p12

recombination activating 1

Aliases:
RNF74, MGC43321
MANE:
ENST00000299440.6

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Predicted protein structure

Clinical relevance (Genomics England PanelApp)

Diagnostic Grade (Green)

  • COVID-19 research

    BIALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal
  • Gastrointestinal epithelial barrier disorders

    BIALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal
  • Infantile enterocolitis & monogenic inflammatory bowel disease

    BIALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal
  • Primary immunodeficiency or monogenic inflammatory bowel disease

    BIALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal
  • Rare genetic inflammatory skin disorders

    BIALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal
  • Respiratory ciliopathies including non-CF bronchiectasis

    BIALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal

Disease associations (Open Targets)

  • Omenn syndrome

    0.81
  • severe combined immunodeficiency, autosomal recessive, T cell-negative, B cell-negative, NK cell-positive

    0.80
  • combined immunodeficiency with skin granulomas

    0.76
  • combined immunodeficiency due to partial RAG1 deficiency

    0.66
  • recombinase activating gene 1 deficiency

    0.65
  • Combined immunodeficiency T+ B+ due to partial RAG1 deficiency

    0.62
  • severe combined immunodeficiency

    0.56
  • histiocytic medullary reticulosis

    0.55
  • T-B+ severe combined immunodeficiency

    0.53
  • T-B- severe combined immunodeficiency

    0.53

Score is the Open Targets composite evidence score (0-1). Higher = stronger gene-disease association.

Protein function (UniProt)

V(D)J recombination-activating protein 1

Catalytic component of the RAG complex, a multiprotein complex that mediates the DNA cleavage phase during V(D)J recombination. V(D)J recombination assembles a diverse repertoire of immunoglobulin and T-cell receptor genes in developing B and T-lymphocytes through rearrangement of different V (variable), in some cases D (diversity), and J (joining) gene segments. In the RAG complex, RAG1 mediates the DNA-binding to the conserved recombination signal sequences (RSS) and catalyzes the DNA cleavage activities by introducing a double-strand break between the RSS and the adjacent coding segment. RAG2 is not a catalytic component but is required for all known catalytic activities. DNA cleavage occurs in 2 steps: a first nick is introduced in the top strand immediately upstream of the heptamer, generating a 3'-hydroxyl group that can attack the phosphodiester bond on the opposite strand in a direct transesterification reaction, thereby creating 4 DNA ends: 2 hairpin coding ends and 2 blunt, 5'-phosphorylated ends. The chromatin structure plays an essential role in the V(D)J recombination reactions and the presence of histone H3 trimethylated at 'Lys-4' (H3K4me3) stimulates both the nicking and haipinning steps. The RAG complex also plays a role in pre-B cell allelic exclusion, a process leading to expression of a single immunoglobulin heavy chain allele to enforce clonality and monospecific recognition by the B-cell antigen receptor (BCR) expressed on individual B-lymphocytes. The introduction of DNA breaks by the RAG complex on one immunoglobulin allele induces ATM-dependent repositioning of the other allele to pericentromeric heterochromatin, preventing accessibility to the RAG complex and recombination of the second allele. In addition to its endonuclease activity, RAG1 also acts as an E3 ubiquitin-protein ligase that mediates monoubiquitination of histone H3. Histone H3 monoubiquitination is required for the joining step of V(D)J recombination. Mediates polyubiquitination of KPNA1 (By similarity)

Data sources: HGNC (CC BY 4.0), AlphaFold (CC BY 4.0, Jumper et al. Nature 2021), Genomics England PanelApp (CC BY 4.0), ClinGen, Open Targets (CC0), UniProt.

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