| recombination activating gene 1 | |
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| Identifiers | |
| Symbol | RAG1 |
| Entrez | 5896 |
| HUGO | 9831 |
| OMIM | 179615 |
| RefSeq | NM_000448 |
| UniProt | P15918 |
| Other data | |
| Locus | Chr. 11 p13 |
| recombination activating gene 2 | |
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| Identifiers | |
| Symbol | RAG2 |
| Entrez | 5897 |
| HUGO | 9832 |
| OMIM | 179616 |
| RefSeq | NM_000536 |
| UniProt | P55895 |
| Other data | |
| Locus | Chr. 11 p13 |
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| Symbol | RAG | ||||||||
| Pfam | PF03089 | ||||||||
| InterPro | IPR004321 | ||||||||
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| Symbol | RAG | ||||||||
| Pfam | PF12940 | ||||||||
| InterPro | IPR004321 | ||||||||
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The recombination activating genes (RAGs) encode enzymes that play an important role in the rearrangement and recombination of the genes of immunoglobulin and T cell receptor molecules during the process of VDJ recombination. There are two recombination activating gene products known as RAG-1 and RAG-2, whose cellular expression is restricted to lymphocytes during their developmental stages. RAG-1 and RAG-2 are essential to the generation of mature B and T lymphocytes, two cell types that are crucial components of the adaptive immune system.
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Function [link]
In the vertebrate immune system, each antibody is customized to attack one particular antigen (foreign proteins and carbohydrates) without attacking the body itself. The human genome has at most 30,000 genes, and yet it generates millions of different antibodies, which can respond to invasion from millions of different antigens. The immune system generates this diversity of antibodies by shuffling a few hundred genes (the VDJ genes) to create millions of permutations, in a process called VDJ recombination. RAG-1 and RAG-2 are proteins at the ends of VDJ genes that separate, shuffle, and rejoin the VDJ genes. This shuffling takes place inside B cells and T cells during their maturation.
RAG enzymes work as a multi-subunit complex to induce cleavage of a single double stranded DNA (dsDNA) molecule between the antigen receptor coding segment and a flanking recombination signal sequence (RSS). They do this in two steps. They initially introduce a ‘nick’ in the 5' (upstream) end of the RSS heptamer (a conserved region of 7 nucleotides) that is adjacent to the coding sequence, leaving behind a specific biochemical structure on this region of DNA: a 3'-hydroxyl (OH) group at the coding end and a 5'-phosphate (PO4) group at the RSS end. The next step couples these chemical groups, binding the OH-group (on the coding end) to the PO4-group (that is sitting between the RSS and the gene segment on the opposite strand). This produces a 5'-phosphorylated double-stranded break at the RSS and a covalently closed hairpin at the coding end. The RAG proteins remain at these junctions until other enzymes repair the DNA breaks.
The RAG proteins initiate V(D)J recombination, which is essential for the maturation of pre-B and pre-T cells. Activated mature B cells also possess two other remarkable, RAG independent, phenomena of manipulating their own DNA; so-called class-switch recombination (AKA isotype switching) and somatic hypermutation (AKA affinity maturation).
Structure [link]
As with many enzymes, RAG proteins are fairly large. For example, mouse RAG-1 contains 1040 amino acids and mouse RAG-2 contains 527 amino acids. The enzymatic activity of the RAG proteins is largely concentrated in a core region; residues 384–1008 of RAG-1 and residues 1–387 of RAG-2 retain most of the DNA cleavage activity. The RAG-1 core contains three acidic residues (D600, D708, and E962) in what is called the DDE motif, the major active site for DNA cleavage. These residues are critical for nicking the DNA strand and for forming the DNA hairpin. Residues 384–454 of RAG-1 comprise a nonamer-binding region (NBR) that specifically binds the conserved nonomer (9 nucleotides) of the RSS and the central domain (amino acids 528–760) of RAG-1 binds specifically to the RSS heptamer. The core region of RAG-2 is predicted to form a six-bladed beta-propeller structure that appears less specific than RAG-1 for its target.
Evolution [link]
The RAG-1 protein evolved from a transposase encoded by an ancient transposable element related to the Transib superfamily.[citation needed]
See also [link]
References [link]
- Janeway CA, Jr. et al. (2005). Immunobiology. (6th ed.). Garland Science. ISBN 0-443-07310-4.
- Abbas AK and Lichtman AH (2003). Cellular and Molecular Immunology (5th ed.). Saunders, Philadelphia. ISBN 0-7216-0008-5.
- Sadofsky MJ (August 2004). "Recombination-activating gene proteins: more regulation, please". Immunol. Rev. 200: 83–9. DOI:10.1111/j.0105-2896.2004.00164.x. PMID 15242398.
- De P, Rodgers KK (August 2004). "Putting the pieces together: identification and characterization of structural domains in the V(D)J recombination protein RAG1". Immunol. Rev. 200: 70–82. DOI:10.1111/j.0105-2896.2004.00154.x. PMID 15242397.
- Kapitonov VV and Jurka J (May 2005). "RAG1 Core and V(D)J Recombination Signal Sequences Were Derived from Transib Transposons". PLoS Biol. 3 (6): e181. DOI:10.1371/journal.pbio.0030181. PMID 15898832.
External links [link]
- Travis J (November 1998). "The Accidental Immune System; Long ago, a wandering piece of DNA—perhaps from a microbe—created a key strategy". Science News 154 (19): 302. https://www.sciencenews.org/pages/pdfs/data/1998/154-19/15419-22.pdf. A simple explanation of recombination activating gene for the general reader.
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