Seroatlas · Human Serome Atlas

C1QTNF7

Complement C1q tumor necrosis factor-related protein 7

Also known as: C1QT7_HUMAN, CTRP7

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

Protein identityUniProt · HPA

UniProt accession
Q9BXJ2
Gene
C1QTNF7
Ensembl
ENSG00000163145
Chromosome
4
Canonical length
289 aa
Protein class
Plasma proteins, Predicted secreted proteins
Subcellular location
Vesicles
Secretome location
Secreted to blood

OverviewNCBI Gene

Predicted to enable identical protein binding activity. Predicted to be located in extracellular space. Predicted to be part of collagen trimer. [provided by Alliance of Genome Resources, Apr 2025]

Canonical amino-acid sequenceUniProt

289 residues, UniProt reviewed canonical sequence.

>Q9BXJ2|C1QTNF7
     1  MFVLLYVTSF AICASGQPRG NQLKGENYSP RYICSIPGLP GPPGPPGANG SPGPHGRIGL
    61  PGRDGRDGRK GEKGEKGTAG LRGKTGPLGL AGEKGDQGET GKKGPIGPEG EKGEVGPIGP
   121  PGPKGDRGEQ GDPGLPGVCR CGSIVLKSAF SVGITTSYPE ERLPIIFNKV LFNEGEHYNP
   181  ATGKFICAFP GIYYFSYDIT LANKHLAIGL VHNGQYRIKT FDANTGNHDV ASGSTVIYLQ
   241  PEDEVWLEIF FTDQNGLFSD PGWADSLFSG FLLYVDTDYL DSISEDDEL

LocalizationUniProt · AlphaFold · HPA

Whether an antibody against C1QTNF7 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)
0.46
Highest tissue expression
22 nTPM

Expression across tissuesHPA

Tissue

  • cervix: 22 nTPM
  • blood vessel: 20 nTPM
  • ovary: 19 nTPM
  • endometrium: 15 nTPM
  • gallbladder: 13 nTPM
  • smooth muscle: 11 nTPM

Single-cell type

  • adipocytes: 269 nCPM
  • retinal bipolar cells: 151 nCPM
  • fibro-adipogenic progenitors: 104 nCPM
  • vascular smooth muscle cells: 68 nCPM
  • fibroblasts: 67 nCPM
  • peritubular myoid cells: 61 nCPM

Immune cell

  • neutrophil: 0.1 nTPM
  • basophil: 0 nTPM
  • classical monocyte: 0 nTPM
  • eosinophil: 0 nTPM
  • gdT-cell: 0 nTPM
  • intermediate monocyte: 0 nTPM

Brain region

  • cerebral cortex: 9 nTPM
  • hypothalamus: 7.2 nTPM
  • midbrain: 6.8 nTPM
  • basal ganglia: 5.7 nTPM
  • thalamus: 5.7 nTPM
  • cerebellum: 5.6 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)
1.45
gnomAD pLI
0
gnomAD missense Z
0.73
DepMap mean gene effect
0.21
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).

OntologyGO

Molecular functions

Cellular components

Protein domainsUniProt · Pfam · InterPro

KeywordsUniProt

Antibody and autoantibody relevanceSeroatlas analysis

Seroatlas reads C1QTNF7 as an antibody target. Whether an autoantibody or antibody against C1QTNF7 could matter depends on whether native C1QTNF7 is physically reachable, whether the body needs it intact, and whether it acts in a disease-relevant tissue.

C1QTNF7 is annotated as secreted, so native C1QTNF7 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 C1QTNF7 as an autoantigen. Seroatlas presents hypothesis context only and does not manufacture a known-serology claim.

Canonical record: https://seroatlas.com/gene/C1QTNF7. 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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