ACTR8
Actin-related protein 8
Also known as: ARP8, ARP8_HUMAN, INO80N
Cross-references: UniProt · Ensembl · Human Protein Atlas · GeneCards · NCBI Gene
Protein identityUniProt · HPA
- UniProt accession
- Q9H981
- Gene
- ACTR8
- Ensembl
- ENSG00000113812
- Chromosome
- 3
- Canonical length
- 624 aa
- Protein class
- Predicted intracellular proteins
- Subcellular location
- Nucleoplasm,Centrosome
OverviewNCBI Gene
Predicted to enable ATP binding activity. Involved in several processes, including chromatin remodeling; regulation of chromosome organization; and regulation of nucleobase-containing compound metabolic process. Located in centrosome and nucleoplasm. Part of Ino80 complex. [provided by Alliance of Genome Resources, Jul 2025]
Canonical amino-acid sequenceUniProt
624 residues, UniProt reviewed canonical sequence.
>Q9H981|ACTR8
1 MTQAEKGDTE NGKEKGGEKE KEQRGVKRPI VPALVPESLQ EQIQSNFIIV IHPGSTTLRI
61 GRATDTLPAS IPHVIARRHK QQGQPLYKDS WLLREGLNKP ESNEQRQNGL KMVDQAIWSK
121 KMSNGTRRIP VSPEQARSYN KQMRPAILDH CSGNKWTNTS HHPEYLVGEE ALYVNPLDCY
181 NIHWPIRRGQ LNIHPGPGGS LTAVLADIEV IWSHAIQKYL EIPLKDLKYY RCILLIPDIY
241 NKQHVKELVN MILMKMGFSG IVVHQESVCA TYGSGLSSTC IVDVGDQKTS VCCVEDGVSH
301 RNTRLCLAYG GSDVSRCFYW LMQRAGFPYR ECQLTNKMDC LLLQHLKETF CHLDQDISGL
361 QDHEFQIRHP DSPALLYQFR LGDEKLQAPM ALFYPATFGI VGQKMTTLQH RSQGDPEDPH
421 DEHYLLATQS KQEQSAKATA DRKSASKPIG FEGDLRGQSS DLPERLHSQE VDLGSAQGDG
481 LMAGNDSEEA LTALMSRKTA ISLFEGKALG LDKAILHSID CCSSDDTKKK MYSSILVVGG
541 GLMFHKAQEF LQHRILNKMP PSFRRIIENV DVITRPKDMD PRLIAWKGGA VLACLDTTQE
601 LWIYQREWQR FGVRMLRERA AFVWLocalizationUniProt · AlphaFold · HPA
Whether an antibody against ACTR8 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
- Intracellular
- Secreted
- No
- Transmembrane segments
- 0
- Mean surface accessibility (rSASA)
- 0.3
- Highest tissue expression
- 20 nTPM
Expression across tissuesHPA
Tissue
- testis: 20 nTPM
- heart muscle: 17 nTPM
- choroid plexus: 16 nTPM
- tonsil: 14 nTPM
- parathyroid gland: 14 nTPM
- lymph node: 13 nTPM
Single-cell type
- late spermatids: 133 nCPM
- late primary spermatocytes: 60 nCPM
- megakaryocytes: 43 nCPM
- early spermatids: 42 nCPM
- oocytes: 37 nCPM
- tuft cells: 35 nCPM
Immune cell
- basophil: 56 nTPM
- NK-cell: 15 nTPM
- T-reg: 15 nTPM
- intermediate monocyte: 12 nTPM
- myeloid DC: 11 nTPM
- eosinophil: 11 nTPM
Brain region
- choroid plexus: 30 nTPM
- cerebellum: 25 nTPM
- midbrain: 23 nTPM
- hypothalamus: 23 nTPM
- white matter: 23 nTPM
- spinal cord: 22 nTPM
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)
- 0.99
- gnomAD pLI
- 0
- gnomAD missense Z
- 1.23
- DepMap mean gene effect
- -0.5
- DepMap dependency class
- selective
Cancer expressionTCGA
Across TCGA tumor cohorts, this protein is over-expressed in roughly 4% of surveyed tumor types (aggregate summary; per-cohort expression, alteration, and survival load in the interactive view).
OntologyGO
Biological processes
- cell division
- chromatin remodeling
- DNA recombination
- double-strand break repair
- positive regulation of DNA repair
- positive regulation of DNA-templated transcription
- positive regulation of telomere maintenance in response to DNA damage
- regulation of cell cycle
- regulation of chromosome organization
- regulation of DNA repair
- regulation of DNA replication
- regulation of DNA strand elongation
- regulation of DNA-templated transcription
- regulation of embryonic development
- telomere maintenance
Molecular functions
Cellular components
Protein domainsUniProt · Pfam · InterPro
KeywordsUniProt
InteractionsUniProt · HPA
Protein binding partners of ACTR8 in the human serome: UniProt-annotated complex subunits plus reported interactors. Each links to its own Seroatlas record.
Antibody and autoantibody relevanceSeroatlas analysis
Seroatlas reads ACTR8 as an antibody target. Whether an autoantibody or antibody against ACTR8 could matter depends on whether native ACTR8 is physically reachable, whether the body needs it intact, and whether it acts in a disease-relevant tissue.
ACTR8 is annotated as predominantly intracellular. Intracellular proteins are common autoantibody markers, becoming visible to the immune system after cell injury or altered processing, but are usually markers of disease rather than direct drivers.
Annotation status
The present source text does not explicitly label ACTR8 as an autoantigen. Seroatlas presents hypothesis context only and does not manufacture a known-serology claim.
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