Seroatlas · Human Serome Atlas

C10orf120

Uncharacterized protein C10orf120

Also known as: bA318C4.1, CJ120_HUMAN

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

Protein identityUniProt · HPA

UniProt accession
Q5SQS8
Gene
C10orf120
Ensembl
ENSG00000183559
Chromosome
10
Canonical length
335 aa
Protein class
Predicted intracellular proteins

OverviewNCBI Gene

No narrative summary is available for C10orf120 in this catalog release; identity and structured annotations are shown without generated factual claims.

Canonical amino-acid sequenceUniProt

335 residues, UniProt reviewed canonical sequence.

>Q5SQS8|C10orf120
     1  MIREWKNDCQ RIEKQRASDT MVQERKNEKP VRIFNTNSSF QDQAPTCCQE DLSSASPLRI
    61  WSKFYRSDPR IALGKYSPLE KEILRLGGIH TIAARRLLAY KQEEECRMLK ELQLLSPDYK
   121  QAMEYKKKHS SPCAICVPLE KIWTAKVIAP LEAFKMPQRE QVNVSKHIER MRLARALGNH
   181  QPLPYIERFT RSSFLSGVGL GPMAKNKARR KEDNYDTHNC DDANQDKKEE AEGKNTKRRE
   241  IKMNVVFKSK EPKKCLTYHG NDRKSFLPAK KPERSIAGLT NRNLFCISEF PGDLMLMNQD
   301  FISRRDHFSD LVKTYSLEEE SIWKERMRKA TPYHY

LocalizationUniProt · AlphaFold · HPA

Whether an antibody against C10orf120 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)
0.6
Highest tissue expression
29 nTPM

Expression across tissuesHPA

Tissue

  • testis: 29 nTPM
  • pancreas: 0.1 nTPM
  • adipose tissue: 0 nTPM
  • adrenal gland: 0 nTPM
  • amygdala: 0 nTPM
  • appendix: 0 nTPM

Single-cell type

  • early spermatids: 809 nCPM
  • late spermatids: 159 nCPM
  • late primary spermatocytes: 44 nCPM
  • peritubular myoid cells: 1.6 nCPM
  • leydig cells: 0.8 nCPM
  • epididymal basal cells: 0.6 nCPM

Immune cell

  • basophil: 0 nTPM
  • classical monocyte: 0 nTPM
  • eosinophil: 0 nTPM
  • gdT-cell: 0 nTPM
  • intermediate monocyte: 0 nTPM
  • MAIT T-cell: 0 nTPM

Brain region

  • amygdala: 0 nTPM
  • basal ganglia: 0 nTPM
  • cerebellum: 0 nTPM
  • cerebral cortex: 0 nTPM
  • choroid plexus: 0 nTPM
  • hippocampal formation: 0 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)
1.9
gnomAD pLI
0
gnomAD missense Z
-0.23
DepMap mean gene effect
0.13
DepMap dependency class
none

Cancer expressionTCGA

Across TCGA tumor cohorts, this protein is over-expressed in roughly 3% of surveyed tumor types (aggregate summary; per-cohort expression, alteration, and survival load in the interactive view).

Protein domainsUniProt · Pfam · InterPro

  • Protein of unknown function DUF5520
  • Family of unknown function (DUF5520)

Antibody and autoantibody relevanceSeroatlas analysis

Seroatlas reads C10orf120 as an antibody target. Whether an autoantibody or antibody against C10orf120 could matter depends on whether native C10orf120 is physically reachable, whether the body needs it intact, and whether it acts in a disease-relevant tissue.

C10orf120 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 C10orf120 as an autoantigen. Seroatlas presents hypothesis context only and does not manufacture a known-serology claim.

Canonical record: https://seroatlas.com/gene/C10orf120. 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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