Seroatlas · Human Serome Atlas

C20orf144

Uncharacterized protein C20orf144

Also known as: bclt, CT144_HUMAN, dJ63M2.6

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

Protein identityUniProt · HPA

UniProt accession
Q9BQM9
Gene
C20orf144
Ensembl
ENSG00000149609
Chromosome
20
Canonical length
153 aa
Protein class
Predicted intracellular proteins

OverviewNCBI Gene

No narrative summary is available for C20orf144 in this catalog release; identity and structured annotations are shown without generated factual claims.

Canonical amino-acid sequenceUniProt

153 residues, UniProt reviewed canonical sequence.

>Q9BQM9|C20orf144
     1  MGNYSSHKRT KAPKQARKER PADMDKAWWK SFLNHLTRKK PATRIVLILP LDKRQPLANA
    61  GQRIDYASGA GLGSPAAPRL RGAGEGSERE PRMPVLLLLR RQEARRPEEG GARAALSWPR
   121  LLSRFRSPGK APREAGPAEE QPRKRCRCPR PQL

LocalizationUniProt · AlphaFold · HPA

Whether an antibody against C20orf144 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)
0.69
Highest tissue expression
175 nTPM

Expression across tissuesHPA

Tissue

  • testis: 175 nTPM
  • breast: 0.1 nTPM
  • prostate: 0.1 nTPM
  • adipose tissue: 0 nTPM
  • adrenal gland: 0 nTPM
  • amygdala: 0 nTPM

Single-cell type

  • late spermatids: 3,596 nCPM
  • early spermatids: 2,587 nCPM
  • late primary spermatocytes: 649 nCPM
  • sertoli cells: 13 nCPM
  • epicardial cells: 9.1 nCPM
  • leydig cells: 7 nCPM

Immune cell

  • basophil: 0 nTPM
  • classical monocyte: 0 nTPM
  • eosinophil: 0 nTPM
  • gdT-cell: 0 nTPM
  • intermediate monocyte: 0 nTPM
  • MAIT T-cell: 0 nTPM

Brain region

  • amygdala: 0 nTPM
  • basal ganglia: 0 nTPM
  • cerebellum: 0 nTPM
  • cerebral cortex: 0 nTPM
  • choroid plexus: 0 nTPM
  • hippocampal formation: 0 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)
1.95
gnomAD pLI
0
gnomAD missense Z
-0.76
DepMap mean gene effect
-0.08
DepMap dependency class
none

Cancer expressionTCGA

Across TCGA tumor cohorts, this protein is over-expressed in roughly 6% of surveyed tumor types (aggregate summary; per-cohort expression, alteration, and survival load in the interactive view).

Protein domainsUniProt · Pfam · InterPro

  • Putative Bcl-2 like protein of testis
  • Putative Bcl-2 like protein of testis

Antibody and autoantibody relevanceSeroatlas analysis

Seroatlas reads C20orf144 as an antibody target. Whether an autoantibody or antibody against C20orf144 could matter depends on whether native C20orf144 is physically reachable, whether the body needs it intact, and whether it acts in a disease-relevant tissue.

C20orf144 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 C20orf144 as an autoantigen. Seroatlas presents hypothesis context only and does not manufacture a known-serology claim.

Canonical record: https://seroatlas.com/gene/C20orf144. 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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