ATG5

autophagy related 5

Summary

The protein encoded by this gene, in combination with autophagy protein 12, functions as an E1-like activating enzyme in a ubiquitin-like conjugating system. The encoded protein is involved in several cellular processes, including autophagic vesicle formation, mitochondrial quality control after oxidative damage, negative regulation of the innate antiviral immune response, lymphocyte development and proliferation, MHC II antigen presentation, adipocyte differentiation, and apoptosis. Several transcript variants encoding different protein isoforms have been found for this gene. [provided by RefSeq, Sep 2015]

Known Variants23 total

rsidPosition (GRCh37)AllelesClassClinVar
rs122014586:106,642,687C/Aregulatory region variant—
rs7637086456:106,649,859T/C—likely benign
rs22452146:106,662,741C/Gintron variant—
rs93721206:106,667,535T/Gintron variant—
rs6657916:106,674,850G/C——
rs624228786:106,676,470C/Tintron variant—
rs38276446:106,685,195G/Cintron variant—
rs38043296:106,686,427A/Gintron variant—
rs21145139426:106,696,039A/T—uncertain significance
rs346018386:106,727,570T/C—benign
rs347932506:106,727,629T/C—benign
rs11316922656:106,727,648T/A—no classifications from unflagged records
rs1476412186:106,727,653T/C—uncertain significance
rs1171270576:106,740,989T/C—benign
rs778591166:106,756,282T/C—benign
rs6711166:106,760,597A/Gregulatory region variant—
rs15826925756:106,763,977T/C—uncertain significance
rs1141098606:106,764,018T/C—benign
rs13330253956:106,764,022G/C—uncertain significance
rs5737756:106,764,866G/Aintron variant—
rs8033606:106,766,129G/A——
rs1908254546:106,773,627G/T——
rs5104326:106,774,030T/Cregulatory region variant—

Gene information from NCBI Gene. Variant classifications from ClinVar.