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ARL5C

Putative ADP-ribosylation factor-like protein 5C

Also known as: ARL12, ARL5C_HUMAN

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

Protein identityUniProt · HPA

UniProt accession
A6NH57
Gene
ARL5C
Ensembl
ENSG00000141748
Chromosome
17
Canonical length
179 aa
Protein class
Predicted intracellular proteins

OverviewNCBI Gene

Predicted to enable GTP binding activity. Predicted to be involved in intracellular protein transport; protein localization to Golgi membrane; and vesicle-mediated transport. Predicted to be active in trans-Golgi network. [provided by Alliance of Genome Resources, Jul 2025]

Canonical amino-acid sequenceUniProt

179 residues, UniProt reviewed canonical sequence.

>A6NH57|ARL5C
     1  MGQLIAKLMS IFGNQEHTVI IVGLDNEGKT TILYRFLTNE VVHMCPTIGS NVEEIILPKT
    61  HFFMWDIVRP EALSFIWNTY YSNTEFIILV IDSTDRDRLL TTREELYKML AHEALQDASV
   121  LIFANKQDVK DSMRMVEISH FLTLSTIKDH SWHIQGCCAL TREGLPARLQ WMESQAAAN

LocalizationUniProt · AlphaFold · HPA

Whether an antibody against ARL5C 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)
0.29
Highest tissue expression
3.2 nTPM

Expression across tissuesHPA

Tissue

  • thymus: 3.2 nTPM
  • retina: 0.6 nTPM
  • pancreas: 0.3 nTPM
  • lymph node: 0.1 nTPM
  • adipose tissue: 0 nTPM
  • adrenal gland: 0 nTPM

Single-cell type

  • retinal bipolar cells: 45 nCPM
  • pdcs: 22 nCPM
  • microglia: 17 nCPM
  • thymocytes: 6.8 nCPM
  • megakaryocytes: 6.2 nCPM
  • macrophages: 4 nCPM

Immune cell

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

Brain region

  • cerebral cortex: 0.4 nTPM
  • hippocampal formation: 0.2 nTPM
  • spinal cord: 0.2 nTPM
  • thalamus: 0.2 nTPM
  • amygdala: 0.1 nTPM
  • basal ganglia: 0.1 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)
0.76
gnomAD pLI
0.31
gnomAD missense Z
0.9
DepMap mean gene effect
-0.18
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 ARL5C as an antibody target. Whether an autoantibody or antibody against ARL5C could matter depends on whether native ARL5C is physically reachable, whether the body needs it intact, and whether it acts in a disease-relevant tissue.

ARL5C 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 ARL5C as an autoantigen. Seroatlas presents hypothesis context only and does not manufacture a known-serology claim.

Canonical record: https://seroatlas.com/gene/ARL5C. 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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