Seroatlas · Human Serome Atlas

C12orf71

Uncharacterized protein C12orf71

Also known as: CL071_HUMAN, LOC728858

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

Protein identityUniProt · HPA

UniProt accession
A8MTZ7
Gene
C12orf71
Ensembl
ENSG00000214700
Chromosome
12
Canonical length
269 aa
Protein class
Predicted intracellular proteins
Subcellular location
Cytosol

OverviewNCBI Gene

No narrative summary is available for C12orf71 in this catalog release; identity and structured annotations are shown without generated factual claims.

Canonical amino-acid sequenceUniProt

269 residues, UniProt reviewed canonical sequence.

>A8MTZ7|C12orf71
     1  MAYSSSNSDI EDDSSKSNSN LSLSVGYFPC EDTPCEDTTS WEDAPSKGPS IHFLPPVQGA
    61  WGTERIGRRM KRQDQIQDEP EQFCKLSIFL AWDVDIGSDN TDSRANRLLN GDNLWIDKLP
   121  KERTKLSVGK LNNLVQEFQI FLENLKDDDA VFPETAQQDF QLSSGSPPEM VQMISQATAS
   181  QRTSAPEISS ILSEQPEKDD TPSHTQAQCC LNFGWAFSWL RQRILPSLLR RDHPVNATKS
   241  PHRSAPTKRL FHRGKRIQPQ ETLELGHPI

LocalizationUniProt · AlphaFold · HPA

Whether an antibody against C12orf71 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)
0.63
Highest tissue expression
2.9 nTPM

Expression across tissuesHPA

Tissue

  • testis: 2.9 nTPM
  • bone marrow: 1.3 nTPM
  • skin: 0.7 nTPM
  • cerebellum: 0.3 nTPM
  • retina: 0.3 nTPM
  • cerebral cortex: 0.2 nTPM

Single-cell type

  • late primary spermatocytes: 27 nCPM
  • early spermatids: 11 nCPM
  • epididymal basal cells: 2.6 nCPM
  • epicardial cells: 2.3 nCPM
  • late spermatids: 2.3 nCPM
  • cardiomyocytes: 0.5 nCPM

Immune cell

  • NK-cell: 1 nTPM
  • basophil: 0 nTPM
  • classical monocyte: 0 nTPM
  • eosinophil: 0 nTPM
  • gdT-cell: 0 nTPM
  • intermediate monocyte: 0 nTPM

Brain region

  • cerebral cortex: 2.6 nTPM
  • amygdala: 2.3 nTPM
  • hippocampal formation: 2.2 nTPM
  • white matter: 2.2 nTPM
  • thalamus: 2.1 nTPM
  • pons: 1.9 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)
1.72
gnomAD pLI
0
gnomAD missense Z
0.36
DepMap mean gene effect
0.03
DepMap dependency class
selective

Cancer expressionTCGA

Across TCGA tumor cohorts, this protein is over-expressed in roughly 5% 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 DUF4640
  • Domain of unknown function (DUF4640)

Antibody and autoantibody relevanceSeroatlas analysis

Seroatlas reads C12orf71 as an antibody target. Whether an autoantibody or antibody against C12orf71 could matter depends on whether native C12orf71 is physically reachable, whether the body needs it intact, and whether it acts in a disease-relevant tissue.

C12orf71 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 C12orf71 as an autoantigen. Seroatlas presents hypothesis context only and does not manufacture a known-serology claim.

Canonical record: https://seroatlas.com/gene/C12orf71. 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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