Seroatlas · Human Serome Atlas

C1QTNF6

Complement C1q tumor necrosis factor-related protein 6

Also known as: C1QT6_HUMAN, CTRP6, ZACRP6

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

Protein identityUniProt · HPA

UniProt accession
Q9BXI9
Gene
C1QTNF6
Ensembl
ENSG00000133466
Chromosome
22
Canonical length
278 aa
Protein class
Predicted intracellular proteins, Predicted secreted proteins
Subcellular location
Nucleoplasm
Secretome location
Secreted to blood

OverviewNCBI Gene

Enables identical protein binding activity. Predicted to be located in extracellular region and membrane. Predicted to be part of collagen trimer. Predicted to be active in extracellular space. [provided by Alliance of Genome Resources, Jul 2025]

Canonical amino-acid sequenceUniProt

278 residues, UniProt reviewed canonical sequence.

>Q9BXI9|C1QTNF6
     1  MQWLRVRESP GEATGHRVTM GTAALGPVWA ALLLFLLMCE IPMVELTFDR AVASGCQRCC
    61  DSEDPLDPAH VSSASSSGRP HALPEIRPYI NITILKGDKG DPGPMGLPGY MGREGPQGEP
   121  GPQGSKGDKG EMGSPGAPCQ KRFFAFSVGR KTALHSGEDF QTLLFERVFV NLDGCFDMAT
   181  GQFAAPLRGI YFFSLNVHSW NYKETYVHIM HNQKEAVILY AQPSERSIMQ SQSVMLDLAY
   241  GDRVWVRLFK RQRENAIYSN DFDTYITFSG HLIKAEDD

LocalizationUniProt · AlphaFold · HPA

Whether an antibody against C1QTNF6 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)
0.5
Highest tissue expression
30 nTPM

Expression across tissuesHPA

Tissue

  • endometrium: 30 nTPM
  • placenta: 28 nTPM
  • liver: 14 nTPM
  • cervix: 11 nTPM
  • gallbladder: 8.2 nTPM
  • smooth muscle: 7.6 nTPM

Single-cell type

  • extravillous trophoblasts: 599 nCPM
  • migrating cytotrophoblasts: 56 nCPM
  • syncytiotrophoblasts: 33 nCPM
  • breast hormone-responsive cells: 31 nCPM
  • decidual stromal cells: 30 nCPM
  • endometrial stromal cells: 27 nCPM

Immune cell

  • NK-cell: 1.5 nTPM
  • T-reg: 1.4 nTPM
  • naive CD4 T-cell: 0.9 nTPM
  • naive B-cell: 0.7 nTPM
  • naive CD8 T-cell: 0.7 nTPM
  • neutrophil: 0.6 nTPM

Brain region

  • white matter: 7 nTPM
  • medulla oblongata: 5.1 nTPM
  • thalamus: 4.6 nTPM
  • cerebral cortex: 4.5 nTPM
  • pons: 4.4 nTPM
  • hippocampal formation: 3.8 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)
1.62
gnomAD pLI
0
gnomAD missense Z
0.51
DepMap mean gene effect
-0.03
DepMap dependency class
selective

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).

OntologyGO

Molecular functions

Cellular components

Protein domainsUniProt · Pfam · InterPro

KeywordsUniProt

Antibody and autoantibody relevanceSeroatlas analysis

Seroatlas reads C1QTNF6 as an antibody target. Whether an autoantibody or antibody against C1QTNF6 could matter depends on whether native C1QTNF6 is physically reachable, whether the body needs it intact, and whether it acts in a disease-relevant tissue.

C1QTNF6 is annotated as secreted, so native C1QTNF6 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 C1QTNF6 as an autoantigen. Seroatlas presents hypothesis context only and does not manufacture a known-serology claim.

Canonical record: https://seroatlas.com/gene/C1QTNF6. 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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