Seroatlas · Human Serome Atlas

BTF3L4

Transcription factor BTF3 homolog 4

Also known as: BT3L4_HUMAN, MGC23908

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

Protein identityUniProt · HPA

UniProt accession
Q96K17
Gene
BTF3L4
Ensembl
ENSG00000134717
Chromosome
1
Canonical length
158 aa
Protein class
Predicted intracellular proteins
Subcellular location
Nucleoplasm,Cytosol

OverviewNCBI Gene

No narrative summary is available for BTF3L4 in this catalog release; identity and structured annotations are shown without generated factual claims.

Canonical amino-acid sequenceUniProt

158 residues, UniProt reviewed canonical sequence.

>Q96K17|BTF3L4
     1  MNQEKLAKLQ AQVRIGGKGT ARRKKKVVHR TATADDKKLQ SSLKKLAVNN IAGIEEVNMI
    61  KDDGTVIHFN NPKVQASLSA NTFAITGHAE AKPITEMLPG ILSQLGADSL TSLRKLAEQF
   121  PRQVLDSKAP KPEDIDEEDD DVPDLVENFD EASKNEAN

LocalizationUniProt · AlphaFold · HPA

Whether an antibody against BTF3L4 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
Unknown
Secreted
No
Transmembrane segments
0
Mean surface accessibility (rSASA)
0.53
Highest tissue expression
65 nTPM

Expression across tissuesHPA

Tissue

  • skeletal muscle: 65 nTPM
  • ovary: 61 nTPM
  • bone marrow: 58 nTPM
  • tongue: 55 nTPM
  • adrenal gland: 49 nTPM
  • thymus: 46 nTPM

Single-cell type

  • esophageal apical cells: 270 nCPM
  • oocytes: 249 nCPM
  • parietal cells: 212 nCPM
  • esophageal suprabasal cells: 190 nCPM
  • kupffer cells: 182 nCPM
  • decidual stromal cells: 176 nCPM

Immune cell

  • intermediate monocyte: 79 nTPM
  • classical monocyte: 74 nTPM
  • myeloid DC: 73 nTPM
  • non-classical monocyte: 71 nTPM
  • eosinophil: 71 nTPM
  • basophil: 71 nTPM

Brain region

  • white matter: 64 nTPM
  • cerebral cortex: 55 nTPM
  • hypothalamus: 52 nTPM
  • pons: 48 nTPM
  • medulla oblongata: 47 nTPM
  • midbrain: 47 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)
0.7
gnomAD pLI
0.57
gnomAD missense Z
1.86
DepMap mean gene effect
-0.43
DepMap dependency class
selective

Cancer expressionTCGA

Across TCGA tumor cohorts, this protein is over-expressed in roughly 6% of surveyed tumor types (aggregate summary; per-cohort expression, alteration, and survival load in the interactive view).

Protein domainsUniProt · Pfam · InterPro

KeywordsUniProt

InteractionsUniProt · HPA

Protein binding partners of BTF3L4 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 BTF3L4 as an antibody target. Whether an autoantibody or antibody against BTF3L4 could matter depends on whether native BTF3L4 is physically reachable, whether the body needs it intact, and whether it acts in a disease-relevant tissue.

BTF3L4 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 BTF3L4 as an autoantigen. Seroatlas presents hypothesis context only and does not manufacture a known-serology claim.

Canonical record: https://seroatlas.com/gene/BTF3L4. 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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