Seroatlas · Human Serome Atlas

AKR1C1

Aldo-keto reductase family 1 member C1

Also known as: AK1C1_HUMAN, DD1, DDH, DDH1, HAKRC, MBAB

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

Protein identityUniProt · HPA

UniProt accession
Q04828
Gene
AKR1C1
Ensembl
ENSG00000187134
Chromosome
10
Canonical length
323 aa
Protein class
Enzymes, Metabolic proteins, Predicted intracellular proteins
Subcellular location
Endoplasmic reticulum,Cytosol

OverviewNCBI Gene

This gene encodes a member of the aldo/keto reductase superfamily, which consists of more than 40 known enzymes and proteins. These enzymes catalyze the conversion of aldehydes and ketones to their corresponding alcohols by utilizing NADH and/or NADPH as cofactors. The enzymes display overlapping but distinct substrate specificity. This enzyme catalyzes the reaction of progesterone to the inactive form 20-alpha-hydroxy-progesterone. This gene shares high sequence identity with three other gene members and is clustered with those three genes at chromosome 10p15-p14. [provided by RefSeq, Jul 2008]

Canonical amino-acid sequenceUniProt

323 residues, UniProt reviewed canonical sequence.

>Q04828|AKR1C1
     1  MDSKYQCVKL NDGHFMPVLG FGTYAPAEVP KSKALEATKL AIEAGFRHID SAHLYNNEEQ
    61  VGLAIRSKIA DGSVKREDIF YTSKLWCNSH RPELVRPALE RSLKNLQLDY VDLYLIHFPV
   121  SVKPGEEVIP KDENGKILFD TVDLCATWEA VEKCKDAGLA KSIGVSNFNR RQLEMILNKP
   181  GLKYKPVCNQ VECHPYFNQR KLLDFCKSKD IVLVAYSALG SHREEPWVDP NSPVLLEDPV
   241  LCALAKKHKR TPALIALRYQ LQRGVVVLAK SYNEQRIRQN VQVFEFQLTS EEMKAIDGLN
   301  RNVRYLTLDI FAGPPNYPFS DEY

LocalizationUniProt · AlphaFold · HPA

Whether an antibody against AKR1C1 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)
0.23
Highest tissue expression
581 nTPM

Expression across tissuesHPA

Tissue

  • liver: 581 nTPM
  • adipose tissue: 173 nTPM
  • stomach: 131 nTPM
  • heart muscle: 130 nTPM
  • skeletal muscle: 114 nTPM
  • breast: 111 nTPM

Single-cell type

  • hepatocytes: 795 nCPM
  • conjunctival goblet cells: 572 nCPM
  • respiratory secretory cells: 380 nCPM
  • urothelial cells: 344 nCPM
  • cholangiocytes: 338 nCPM
  • foveolar cells: 324 nCPM

Immune cell

  • basophil: 1.5 nTPM
  • gdT-cell: 0.5 nTPM
  • naive CD8 T-cell: 0.4 nTPM
  • eosinophil: 0.3 nTPM
  • neutrophil: 0.3 nTPM
  • memory CD4 T-cell: 0.2 nTPM

Brain region

  • medulla oblongata: 42 nTPM
  • pons: 40 nTPM
  • thalamus: 39 nTPM
  • white matter: 34 nTPM
  • spinal cord: 34 nTPM
  • hypothalamus: 32 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)
1.59
gnomAD pLI
0
gnomAD missense Z
-1.42

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

InteractionsUniProt · HPA

Protein binding partners of AKR1C1 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 AKR1C1 as an antibody target. Whether an autoantibody or antibody against AKR1C1 could matter depends on whether native AKR1C1 is physically reachable, whether the body needs it intact, and whether it acts in a disease-relevant tissue.

AKR1C1 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 AKR1C1 as an autoantigen. Seroatlas presents hypothesis context only and does not manufacture a known-serology claim.

Canonical record: https://seroatlas.com/gene/AKR1C1. 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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