CCR5

C-C motif chemokine receptor 5

Summary

This gene encodes a member of the beta chemokine receptor family, which is predicted to be a seven transmembrane protein similar to G protein-coupled receptors. This protein is expressed by T cells and macrophages, and is known to be an important co-receptor for macrophage-tropic virus, including HIV, to enter host cells. Defective alleles of this gene have been associated with the HIV infection resistance. The ligands of this receptor include monocyte chemoattractant protein 2 (MCP-2), macrophage inflammatory protein 1 alpha (MIP-1 alpha), macrophage inflammatory protein 1 beta (MIP-1 beta) and regulated on activation normal T expressed and secreted protein (RANTES). Expression of this gene was also detected in a promyeloblastic cell line, suggesting that this protein may play a role in granulocyte lineage proliferation and differentiation. This gene is located at the chemokine receptor gene cluster region. An allelic polymorphism in this gene results in both functional and non-functional alleles; the reference genome represents the functional allele. Two transcript variants encoding the same protein have been found for this gene. [provided by RefSeq, Jul 2015]

Known Variants31 total

rsidPosition (GRCh37)AllelesClassClinVar
rs3333:46,373,453I/Dframeshift variant
rs28567583:46,411,661A/Gregulatory region variant
rs17999873:46,411,935A/Gintron variantpathogenic
rs17999883:46,412,259C/T5 prime UTR variant
rs414693513:46,412,262C/T5 prime UTR variantpathogenic
rs7631030733:46,414,462C/Alikely benign
rs7516504953:46,414,467T/Auncertain significance
rs563403263:46,414,485G/Auncertain significance
rs7795701673:46,414,509T/Guncertain significance
rs18009403:46,414,573G/Tmissense variantprotective
rs1428294203:46,414,580A/Tuncertain significance
rs9014096703:46,414,665C/Tuncertain significance
rs7660829633:46,414,667G/Auncertain significance
rs17016909733:46,414,688A/Tuncertain significance
rs18005603:46,414,696T/Astop gainedprotective
rs1836625843:46,414,709G/Alikely benign
rs7621670483:46,414,715T/Cuncertain significance
rs7547994233:46,414,816G/Alikely benign
rs18009423:46,414,885C/Guncertain significance
rs12599610943:46,414,895A/Guncertain significance
rs14480478503:46,414,910G/Tuncertain significance
rs17017019343:46,415,034A/Guncertain significance
rs18004523:46,415,061G/Amissense variantbenign
rs15752798543:46,415,108A/Guncertain significance
rs1411391653:46,415,134C/Tlikely benign
rs7614834543:46,415,207T/Cuncertain significance
rs5591945263:46,415,286C/Auncertain significance
rs9689489353:46,415,373T/Cuncertain significance
rs18009443:46,415,397C/Tmissense variantbenign
rs25295530443:46,415,403C/Tuncertain significance
rs3759164643:46,415,424G/Auncertain significance

Gene information from NCBI Gene. Variant classifications from ClinVar.