Seroatlas · Human Serome Atlas

C4orf17

Uncharacterized protein C4orf17

Also known as: CD017_HUMAN, DKFZP434G072

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

Protein identityUniProt · HPA

UniProt accession
Q53FE4
Gene
C4orf17
Ensembl
ENSG00000138813
Chromosome
4
Canonical length
359 aa
Protein class
Predicted intracellular proteins
Subcellular location
Mid piece

OverviewNCBI Gene

No narrative summary is available for C4orf17 in this catalog release; identity and structured annotations are shown without generated factual claims.

Canonical amino-acid sequenceUniProt

359 residues, UniProt reviewed canonical sequence.

>Q53FE4|C4orf17
     1  MNLNPPTSAL QIEGKGSHIM ARNVSCFLVR HTPHPRRVCH IKGLNNIPIC TVNDDENAFG
    61  TLWGVGQSNY LEKNRIPFAN CSYPSSTAVQ ESPVRGMSPA PNGAKVPPRP HSEPSRKIKE
   121  CFKTSSENPL VIKKEEIKAK RPPSPPKACS TPGSCSSGMT STKNDVKANT ICIPNYLDQE
   181  IKILAKLCSI LHTDSLAEVL QWLLHATSKE KEWVSALIHS ELAEINLLTH HRRNTSMEPA
   241  AETGKPPTVK SPPTVKLPPN FTAKSKVLTR DTEGDQPTRV SSQGSEENKE VPKEAEHKPP
   301  LLIRRNNMKI PVAEYFSKPN SPPRPNTQES GSAKPVSARS IQEYNLCPQR ACYPSTHRR

LocalizationUniProt · AlphaFold · HPA

Whether an antibody against C4orf17 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)
0.65
Highest tissue expression
19 nTPM

Expression across tissuesHPA

Tissue

  • testis: 19 nTPM
  • adipose tissue: 0 nTPM
  • adrenal gland: 0 nTPM
  • amygdala: 0 nTPM
  • appendix: 0 nTPM
  • basal ganglia: 0 nTPM

Single-cell type

  • late primary spermatocytes: 246 nCPM
  • early spermatids: 159 nCPM
  • late spermatids: 7.8 nCPM
  • epicardial cells: 2.3 nCPM
  • sertoli cells: 1.1 nCPM
  • respiratory ciliated cells: 0.9 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)
1.43
gnomAD pLI
0
gnomAD missense Z
0.6
DepMap mean gene effect
0.03
DepMap dependency class
none

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).

Protein domainsUniProt · Pfam · InterPro

Antibody and autoantibody relevanceSeroatlas analysis

Seroatlas reads C4orf17 as an antibody target. Whether an autoantibody or antibody against C4orf17 could matter depends on whether native C4orf17 is physically reachable, whether the body needs it intact, and whether it acts in a disease-relevant tissue.

C4orf17 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 C4orf17 as an autoantigen. Seroatlas presents hypothesis context only and does not manufacture a known-serology claim.

Canonical record: https://seroatlas.com/gene/C4orf17. 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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