Seroatlas · Human Serome Atlas

HLA-DRB5

HLA class II histocompatibility antigen, DR beta 5 chain

Also known as: DRB5_HUMAN

Cross-references: UniProt · Ensembl · Human Protein Atlas · GeneCards · NCBI Gene

Protein identityUniProt · HPA

UniProt accession
Q30154
Gene
HLA-DRB5
Ensembl
ENSG00000198502
Chromosome
6
Canonical length
266 aa
Protein class
Human disease related genes, Predicted membrane proteins
Quaternary structure
Homotrimer

OverviewNCBI Gene

HLA-DRB5 belongs to the HLA class II beta chain paralogues. This class II molecule is a heterodimer consisting of an alpha (DRA) and a beta (DRB) chain, both anchored in the membrane. It plays a central role in the immune system by presenting peptides derived from extracellular proteins. Class II molecules are expressed in antigen presenting cells. The beta chain is approximately 26-28 kDa and its gene contains 6 exons. Exon one encodes the leader peptide, exons 2 and 3 encode the two extracellular domains, exon 4 encodes the transmembrane domain and exon 5 encodes the cytoplasmic tail. Within the DR molecule the beta chain contains all the polymorphisms specifying the peptide binding specificities. Typing for these polymorphisms is routinely done for bone marrow and kidney transplantation. There are multiple pseudogenes of this gene. [provided by RefSeq, Feb 2020]

Canonical amino-acid sequenceUniProt

266 residues, UniProt reviewed canonical sequence.

>Q30154|HLA-DRB5
     1  MVCLKLPGGS YMAKLTVTLM VLSSPLALAG DTRPRFLQQD KYECHFFNGT ERVRFLHRDI
    61  YNQEEDLRFD SDVGEYRAVT ELGRPDAEYW NSQKDFLEDR RAAVDTYCRH NYGVGESFTV
   121  QRRVEPKVTV YPARTQTLQH HNLLVCSVNG FYPGSIEVRW FRNSQEEKAG VVSTGLIQNG
   181  DWTFQTLVML ETVPRSGEVY TCQVEHPSVT SPLTVEWRAQ SESAQSKMLS GVGGFVLGLL
   241  FLGAGLFIYF KNQKGHSGLH PTGLVS

LocalizationUniProt · AlphaFold · HPA

Whether an antibody against HLA-DRB5 can act on the native protein depends on physical access: surface and secreted proteins are reachable by circulating antibodies, intracellular proteins usually are not.

Antibody reachability
Cell surface
Secreted
No
Transmembrane segments
1
Mean surface accessibility (rSASA)
0.4
Highest tissue expression
397 nTPM

Expression across tissuesHPA

Tissue

  • lymph node: 397 nTPM
  • lung: 336 nTPM
  • spleen: 215 nTPM
  • stomach: 202 nTPM
  • small intestine: 174 nTPM
  • thymus: 154 nTPM

Single-cell type

  • enterocytes: 627 nCPM
  • cdc: 423 nCPM
  • endometrial secretory cells: 363 nCPM
  • macrophages: 284 nCPM
  • conjunctival goblet cells: 129 nCPM
  • microglia: 125 nCPM

Immune cell

  • myeloid DC: 62 nTPM
  • total PBMC: 52 nTPM
  • intermediate monocyte: 35 nTPM
  • classical monocyte: 29 nTPM
  • naive B-cell: 26 nTPM
  • memory B-cell: 23 nTPM

Brain region

  • thalamus: 4.3 nTPM
  • choroid plexus: 4 nTPM
  • spinal cord: 3.1 nTPM
  • white matter: 2.7 nTPM
  • hypothalamus: 2.6 nTPM
  • cerebral cortex: 2.5 nTPM

DiseaseUniProt · ClinVar · IEDB · PubMed

Four sources answering four different questions about HLA-DRB5.

Disease | ImmuneIEDB

Conditions an epitope on HLA-DRB5 was assayed in.

Genetic constraint and essentialitygnomAD · DepMap

Does the body need this protein intact? Low LOEUF or a strong DepMap dependency means loss or blockade of the protein is likely to be felt.

gnomAD LOEUF (loss-of-function intolerance)
1.85
gnomAD pLI
0
gnomAD missense Z
0.61
DepMap mean gene effect
0.13
DepMap dependency class
none

OntologyGO

Biological processes

Molecular functions

Cellular components

Protein domainsUniProt · Pfam · InterPro

KeywordsUniProt

Antibody and autoantibody relevanceSeroatlas analysis

Seroatlas reads HLA-DRB5 as an antibody target. Whether an autoantibody or antibody against HLA-DRB5 could matter depends on whether native HLA-DRB5 is physically reachable, whether the body needs it intact, and whether it acts in a disease-relevant tissue.

HLA-DRB5 is annotated at the cell surface, where native HLA-DRB5 is exposed to circulating antibodies and is a prime autoantibody target that could block, deplete, or overstimulate it.

Annotation status

The present source text does not explicitly label HLA-DRB5 as an autoantigen. Seroatlas presents hypothesis context only and does not manufacture a known-serology claim.

Canonical record: https://seroatlas.com/gene/HLA-DRB5. Study-independent annotations aggregated from UniProt, Human Protein Atlas, PubMed, IEDB, Pfam, InterPro, Gene Ontology, AlphaFold, gnomAD, DepMap, ClinVar, TCGA. Catalog release seroatlas-reviewed-human-uniprot-20260313.

Seroatlas is the reference for exploring autoantibody and antibody serology at the human-protein level: the autoreactome and human serome, multiplex serology (HuProt, HuScan, VirScan, PhIP-Seq).

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