FCGR Genetic Variation in Two Populations From Ecuador Highlands-Extensive Copy-Number Variation, Distinctive Distribution of Functional Polymorphisms, and a Novel, Locally Common, Chimeric FCGR3B/A (CD16B/A) Gene.

Frontiers in Immunology
Manuela MoraruCarlos Vilches

Abstract

Fcγ receptors (FcγR), cell-surface glycoproteins that bind antigen-IgG complexes, control both humoral and cellular immune responses. The FCGR locus on chromosome 1q23.3 comprises five homologous genes encoding low-affinity FcγRII and FcγRIII, and displays functionally relevant polymorphism that impacts on human health. Recurrent events of non-allelic homologous recombination across the FCGR locus result in copy-number variation of ~82.5 kbp-long fragments known as copy-number regions (CNR). Here, we characterize a recently described deletion that we name CNR5, which results in loss of FCGR3A, FCGR3B, and FCGR2C, and generation of a recombinant FCGR3B/A gene. We show that the CNR5 recombination spot lies at the beginning of the third FCGR3 intron. Although the FCGR3B/A-encoded hybrid protein CD16B/A reaches the plasma membrane in transfected cells, its possible natural expression, predictably restricted to neutrophils, could not be demonstrated in resting or interferon γ-stimulated cells. As the CNR5-deletion was originally described in an Ecuadorian family from Llano Grande (an indigenous community in North-Eastern Quito), we characterized the FCGR genetic variation in two populations from the highlands of Ecuador. Our results...Continue Reading

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