Seroatlas · Human Serome Atlas

C12orf54

Uncharacterized protein C12orf54

Also known as: CL054_HUMAN, MGC35033

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

Protein identityUniProt · HPA

UniProt accession
Q6X4T0
Gene
C12orf54
Ensembl
ENSG00000177627
Chromosome
12
Canonical length
127 aa
Protein class
Predicted intracellular proteins
Subcellular location
Intermediate filaments,Cytosol

OverviewNCBI Gene

No narrative summary is available for C12orf54 in this catalog release; identity and structured annotations are shown without generated factual claims.

Canonical amino-acid sequenceUniProt

127 residues, UniProt reviewed canonical sequence.

>Q6X4T0|C12orf54
     1  MAQHPCQDQE QKVEMTSKQQ RSTSIEETMR PQEKQVTITE TLWDQVLTVF KDIQKELQED
    61  ARIRGMSNCS MTPMTSAPRT GSIRPPDSLM TPKLRRLQFS SGEQPSGGRI HNLKTQLFSQ
   121  SAYYPGP

LocalizationUniProt · AlphaFold · HPA

Whether an antibody against C12orf54 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)
0.64
Highest tissue expression
50 nTPM

Expression across tissuesHPA

Tissue

  • testis: 50 nTPM
  • tonsil: 0.6 nTPM
  • esophagus: 0.5 nTPM
  • cerebral cortex: 0.4 nTPM
  • midbrain: 0.4 nTPM
  • ovary: 0.4 nTPM

Single-cell type

  • late spermatids: 4,343 nCPM
  • early spermatids: 654 nCPM
  • late primary spermatocytes: 111 nCPM
  • esophageal basal cells: 31 nCPM
  • esophageal suprabasal cells: 26 nCPM
  • esophageal apical cells: 11 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

  • cerebral cortex: 2.1 nTPM
  • medulla oblongata: 1.5 nTPM
  • pons: 1.5 nTPM
  • white matter: 1.5 nTPM
  • midbrain: 1.4 nTPM
  • basal ganglia: 1.2 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)
1.55
gnomAD pLI
0
gnomAD missense Z
-0.08
DepMap mean gene effect
-0.04
DepMap dependency class
none

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).

Protein domainsUniProt · Pfam · InterPro

  • Protein of unknown function DUF4681
  • Domain of unknown function (DUF4681)

Antibody and autoantibody relevanceSeroatlas analysis

Seroatlas reads C12orf54 as an antibody target. Whether an autoantibody or antibody against C12orf54 could matter depends on whether native C12orf54 is physically reachable, whether the body needs it intact, and whether it acts in a disease-relevant tissue.

C12orf54 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 C12orf54 as an autoantigen. Seroatlas presents hypothesis context only and does not manufacture a known-serology claim.

Canonical record: https://seroatlas.com/gene/C12orf54. 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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