Seroatlas · Human Serome Atlas

C15orf61

Uncharacterized protein C15orf61

Also known as: CO061_HUMAN, LOC145853

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

Protein identityUniProt · HPA

UniProt accession
A6NNL5
Gene
C15orf61
Ensembl
ENSG00000189227
Chromosome
15
Canonical length
157 aa
Protein class
Predicted intracellular proteins, Predicted secreted proteins
Subcellular location
Nucleoli,Vesicles,Cytosol
Secretome location
Secreted - unknown location

OverviewNCBI Gene

Located in mitochondrion. [provided by Alliance of Genome Resources, Jul 2025]

Canonical amino-acid sequenceUniProt

157 residues, UniProt reviewed canonical sequence.

>A6NNL5|C15orf61
     1  MEALRRAHEV ALRLLLCRPW ASRAAARPKP SASEVLTRHL LQRRLPHWTS FCVPYSAVRN
    61  DQFGLSHFNW PVQGANYHVL RTGCFPFIKY HCSKAPWQDL ARQNRFFTAL KVVNLGIPTL
   121  LYGLGSWLFA RVTETVHTSY GPITVYFLNK EDEGAMY

LocalizationUniProt · AlphaFold · HPA

Whether an antibody against C15orf61 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
Secreted
Secreted
Yes
Transmembrane segments
0
Mean surface accessibility (rSASA)
0.33
Highest tissue expression
22 nTPM

Expression across tissuesHPA

Tissue

  • skeletal muscle: 22 nTPM
  • retina: 10 nTPM
  • cerebellum: 8.8 nTPM
  • tongue: 7.7 nTPM
  • testis: 7.4 nTPM
  • basal ganglia: 6.5 nTPM

Single-cell type

  • late primary spermatocytes: 547 nCPM
  • oocytes: 415 nCPM
  • early spermatids: 174 nCPM
  • undifferentiated spermatogonia: 81 nCPM
  • epididymal principal cells: 75 nCPM
  • esophageal basal cells: 71 nCPM

Immune cell

  • eosinophil: 7.9 nTPM
  • basophil: 7.7 nTPM
  • naive CD4 T-cell: 6.2 nTPM
  • memory CD4 T-cell: 6 nTPM
  • memory B-cell: 5.3 nTPM
  • MAIT T-cell: 5.2 nTPM

Brain region

  • cerebellum: 23 nTPM
  • basal ganglia: 21 nTPM
  • cerebral cortex: 17 nTPM
  • hippocampal formation: 15 nTPM
  • midbrain: 13 nTPM
  • amygdala: 13 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)
1.32
gnomAD pLI
0.09
gnomAD missense Z
-0.13
DepMap mean gene effect
0.08
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).

OntologyGO

Cellular components

Protein domainsUniProt · Pfam · InterPro

  • Protein of unknown function DUF4528
  • Domain of unknown function (DUF4528)

KeywordsUniProt

Antibody and autoantibody relevanceSeroatlas analysis

Seroatlas reads C15orf61 as an antibody target. Whether an autoantibody or antibody against C15orf61 could matter depends on whether native C15orf61 is physically reachable, whether the body needs it intact, and whether it acts in a disease-relevant tissue.

C15orf61 is annotated as secreted, so native C15orf61 circulates and is directly accessible to antibodies. Secreted and cell-surface proteins are the autoantibody targets most likely to act like drugs, blocking or depleting the native protein.

Annotation status

The present source text does not explicitly label C15orf61 as an autoantigen. Seroatlas presents hypothesis context only and does not manufacture a known-serology claim.

Canonical record: https://seroatlas.com/gene/C15orf61. 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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