Seroatlas · Human Serome Atlas

AIF1L

Allograft inflammatory factor 1-like

Also known as: AIF1L_HUMAN, C9orf58, FLJ12783, IBA2

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

Protein identityUniProt · HPA

UniProt accession
Q9BQI0
Gene
AIF1L
Ensembl
ENSG00000126878
Chromosome
9
Canonical length
150 aa
Protein class
Predicted intracellular proteins
Quaternary structure
Homodimer

OverviewNCBI Gene

Enables actin filament binding activity. Predicted to be involved in actin filament bundle assembly and ruffle assembly. Located in actin filament and focal adhesion. Biomarker of breast cancer. [provided by Alliance of Genome Resources, Jul 2025]

Canonical amino-acid sequenceUniProt

150 residues, UniProt reviewed canonical sequence.

>Q9BQI0|AIF1L
     1  MSGELSNRFQ GGKAFGLLKA RQERRLAEIN REFLCDQKYS DEENLPEKLT AFKEKYMEFD
    61  LNNEGEIDLM SLKRMMEKLG VPKTHLEMKK MISEVTGGVS DTISYRDFVN MMLGKRSAVL
   121  KLVMMFEGKA NESSPKPVGP PPERDIASLP

LocalizationUniProt · AlphaFold · HPA

Whether an antibody against AIF1L 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)
0.4
Highest tissue expression
358 nTPM

Expression across tissuesHPA

Tissue

  • kidney: 358 nTPM
  • spinal cord: 262 nTPM
  • spleen: 195 nTPM
  • midbrain: 192 nTPM
  • hippocampal formation: 146 nTPM
  • basal ganglia: 140 nTPM

Single-cell type

  • esophageal apical cells: 2,988 nCPM
  • extravillous trophoblasts: 590 nCPM
  • breast lactating cells: 271 nCPM
  • renal collecting duct principal cells: 212 nCPM
  • renal connecting tubule cells: 173 nCPM
  • loop of henle epithelial cells: 162 nCPM

Immune cell

  • NK-cell: 0.4 nTPM
  • basophil: 0 nTPM
  • classical monocyte: 0 nTPM
  • eosinophil: 0 nTPM
  • gdT-cell: 0 nTPM
  • intermediate monocyte: 0 nTPM

Brain region

  • white matter: 270 nTPM
  • medulla oblongata: 240 nTPM
  • midbrain: 229 nTPM
  • basal ganglia: 216 nTPM
  • pons: 214 nTPM
  • thalamus: 194 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)
1.02
gnomAD pLI
0.01
gnomAD missense Z
0.3
DepMap mean gene effect
-0.04
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

Molecular functions

Cellular components

Protein domainsUniProt · Pfam · InterPro

KeywordsUniProt

Antibody and autoantibody relevanceSeroatlas analysis

Seroatlas reads AIF1L as an antibody target. Whether an autoantibody or antibody against AIF1L could matter depends on whether native AIF1L is physically reachable, whether the body needs it intact, and whether it acts in a disease-relevant tissue.

AIF1L 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 AIF1L as an autoantigen. Seroatlas presents hypothesis context only and does not manufacture a known-serology claim.

Canonical record: https://seroatlas.com/gene/AIF1L. 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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