C1S
Complement C1s subcomponent
Also known as: C1S_HUMAN
Cross-references: UniProt · Ensembl · Human Protein Atlas · GeneCards · NCBI Gene
Protein identityUniProt · HPA
- UniProt accession
- P09871
- Gene
- C1S
- Ensembl
- ENSG00000182326
- Chromosome
- 12
- Canonical length
- 688 aa
- Protein class
- Disease related genes, Enzymes, FDA approved drug targets, Human disease related genes, Plasma proteins, Predicted intracellular proteins, Predicted secreted proteins
- Subcellular location
- Nucleoplasm,Cytosol
- Secretome location
- Secreted to blood
OverviewNCBI Gene
This gene encodes a serine protease, which is a major constituent of the human complement subcomponent C1. C1s associates with two other complement components C1r and C1q in order to yield the first component of the serum complement system. Defects in this gene are the cause of selective C1s deficiency. [provided by RefSeq, Mar 2009]
Canonical amino-acid sequenceUniProt
688 residues, UniProt reviewed canonical sequence.
>P09871|C1S
1 MWCIVLFSLL AWVYAEPTMY GEILSPNYPQ AYPSEVEKSW DIEVPEGYGI HLYFTHLDIE
61 LSENCAYDSV QIISGDTEEG RLCGQRSSNN PHSPIVEEFQ VPYNKLQVIF KSDFSNEERF
121 TGFAAYYVAT DINECTDFVD VPCSHFCNNF IGGYFCSCPP EYFLHDDMKN CGVNCSGDVF
181 TALIGEIASP NYPKPYPENS RCEYQIRLEK GFQVVVTLRR EDFDVEAADS AGNCLDSLVF
241 VAGDRQFGPY CGHGFPGPLN IETKSNALDI IFQTDLTGQK KGWKLRYHGD PMPCPKEDTP
301 NSVWEPAKAK YVFRDVVQIT CLDGFEVVEG RVGATSFYST CQSNGKWSNS KLKCQPVDCG
361 IPESIENGKV EDPESTLFGS VIRYTCEEPY YYMENGGGGE YHCAGNGSWV NEVLGPELPK
421 CVPVCGVPRE PFEEKQRIIG GSDADIKNFP WQVFFDNPWA GGALINEYWV LTAAHVVEGN
481 REPTMYVGST SVQTSRLAKS KMLTPEHVFI HPGWKLLEVP EGRTNFDNDI ALVRLKDPVK
541 MGPTVSPICL PGTSSDYNLM DGDLGLISGW GRTEKRDRAV RLKAARLPVA PLRKCKEVKV
601 EKPTADAEAY VFTPNMICAG GEKGMDSCKG DSGGAFAVQD PNDKTKFYAA GLVSWGPQCG
661 TYGLYTRVKN YVDWIMKTMQ ENSTPREDLocalizationUniProt · AlphaFold · HPA
Whether an antibody against C1S 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
- Cell surface
- Secreted
- No
- Transmembrane segments
- 0
- Mean surface accessibility (rSASA)
- 0.29
- Highest tissue expression
- 2,663 nTPM
Expression across tissuesHPA
Tissue
- liver: 2,663 nTPM
- ovary: 596 nTPM
- gallbladder: 494 nTPM
- adipose tissue: 451 nTPM
- urinary bladder: 421 nTPM
- blood vessel: 380 nTPM
Single-cell type
- hepatocytes: 3,327 nCPM
- decidual stromal cells: 1,564 nCPM
- leydig cells: 1,066 nCPM
- fibroblasts: 961 nCPM
- peritubular myoid cells: 643 nCPM
- hepatic stellate cells: 581 nCPM
Immune cell
- basophil: 0.3 nTPM
- memory B-cell: 0.1 nTPM
- classical monocyte: 0 nTPM
- eosinophil: 0 nTPM
- gdT-cell: 0 nTPM
- intermediate monocyte: 0 nTPM
Brain region
- medulla oblongata: 45 nTPM
- choroid plexus: 32 nTPM
- hypothalamus: 29 nTPM
- midbrain: 24 nTPM
- cerebral cortex: 22 nTPM
- spinal cord: 21 nTPM
DiseaseUniProt · ClinVar · IEDB · PubMed
Four sources answering four different questions about C1S.
Disease | AllUniProt
Conditions C1S is implicated in, by any mechanism.
- Complement component C1s deficiency (C1SD) MIM:613783
- Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, periodontal type, 2 (EDSPD2) MIM:617174
Disease | GeneticClinVar
38 pathogenic / likely-pathogenic of 709 ClinVar records.
Conditions with pathogenic or likely-pathogenic variants.
- Complement component C1s deficiency
- Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, periodontal type 2
- Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, periodontal type 1
- C1S-related disorder
Disease | ImmuneIEDB
Conditions an epitope on C1S was assayed in.
- rheumatoid arthritis B cell
Disease | AutoantibodyPubMed
Conditions in which antibodies against C1S are reported. Each links to that disease's full target list.
ReferencesPubMed · IEDB
Publications for C1S from three distinct lines of evidence, kept separate because they answer different questions: whether antibodies are directed at the protein, whether a B-cell epitope has been mapped on it, and whether a T-cell epitope has. Each is labelled with its source.
Reference: AutoantibodyPubMed
7 publications
- Autoimmune haemolytic anaemias.
2024 · Nat Rev Dis Primers · RCR 6.8 · 36 citations - Anti-C1s autoantibodies as complementary serologic biomarker in lupus nephritis.
2025 · Clin Immunol · RCR 1.9 · 5 citations - The Anti-C1s Antibody TNT003 Prevents Complement Activation in the Skin Induced by Bullous Pemphigoid Autoantibodies.
2018 · J Invest Dermatol · RCR 1.8 · 36 citations - Autoantibodies against Complement Classical Pathway Components C1q, C1r, C1s and C1-Inh in Patients with Lupus Nephritis.
2022 · Int J Mol Sci · RCR 1.2 · 12 citations - In vitro stimulation of C1s proteolytic activities by C1s-presenting autoantibodies from patients with systemic lupus erythematosus.
1998 · J Immunol · RCR 0.5 · 18 citations
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- Complement in systemic lupus erythematosus across time and space: from tolerance to tissue injury and from extracellular to intracellular functions.
2025 · Curr Opin Immunol · 4 citations - Beneath the surface in autoimmune hemolytic anemia: pathogenetic networks, therapeutic advancements and open questions.
2025 · Front Immunol · 3 citations
Reference: B cellIEDB
1 publication
- Disordered Antigens and Epitope Overlap Between Anti-Citrullinated Protein Antibodies and Rheumatoid Factor in Rheumatoid Arthritis.
2020 · Arthritis Rheumatol · RCR 1.7 · 30 citations
Reference: T cellIEDB
1 publication
- High-throughput determination of the antigen specificities of T cell receptors in single cells.
2018 · Nat Biotechnol · RCR 4.5 · 163 citations
Sources: PubMed — antigen-level antibody evidence from a custom retrieval. Records matching a controlled set of autoantibody terms (the MeSH descriptors Autoantibodies and Autoantigens, with title and abstract term variants) were obtained through NCBI E-utilities, and their titles and abstracts parsed for constructions that direct an antibody at a named protein rather than for co-occurrence. Captured names were resolved against UniProt nomenclature and each antigen adjudicated individually against the source text. IEDB — curated epitope assays from the Immune Epitope Database (Vita et al., Nucleic Acids Research 2019). Bibliographic records from PubMed and MeSH, U.S. National Library of Medicine; citation metrics from NIH iCite (Hutchins et al., PLoS Biology 2016). Titles link to PubMed; abstracts are not reproduced here. The NLM does not endorse this analysis.
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)
- 0.6
- gnomAD pLI
- 0
- gnomAD missense Z
- 0.56
- DepMap mean gene effect
- -0.06
- 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
Biological processes
Molecular functions
Cellular components
Protein domainsUniProt · Pfam · InterPro
- EGF-type aspartate/asparagine hydroxylation site
- Sushi/SCR/CCP domain
- CUB domain
- Serine proteases, trypsin domain
- Peptidase S1A, chymotrypsin family
- EGF-like calcium-binding domain
- Peptidase S1, PA clan
- EGF-like calcium-binding, conserved site
- Peptidase S1A, complement C1r/C1S/mannan-binding
- Serine proteases, trypsin family, serine active site
- Spermadhesin, CUB domain superfamily
- Sushi/SCR/CCP superfamily
- Sushi repeat (SCR repeat)
- Trypsin
- CUB domain
- Coagulation Factor Xa inhibitory site
KeywordsUniProt
Antibody and autoantibody relevanceSeroatlas analysis
Seroatlas reads C1S as an antibody target. Whether an autoantibody or antibody against C1S could matter depends on whether native C1S is physically reachable, whether the body needs it intact, and whether it acts in a disease-relevant tissue.
C1S is annotated at the cell surface, where native C1S is exposed to circulating antibodies and is a prime autoantibody target that could block, deplete, or overstimulate it.
Annotation status
The present source text does not explicitly label C1S as an autoantigen. Seroatlas presents hypothesis context only and does not manufacture a known-serology claim.
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