Seroatlas · Human Serome Atlas

C6orf136

Uncharacterized protein C6orf136

Also known as: CF136_HUMAN, Em:AB023049.8

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

Protein identityUniProt · HPA

UniProt accession
Q5SQH8
Gene
C6orf136
Ensembl
ENSG00000204564
Chromosome
6
Canonical length
315 aa
Protein class
Predicted intracellular proteins, Predicted membrane proteins

OverviewNCBI Gene

Predicted to be located in membrane. [provided by Alliance of Genome Resources, Jul 2025]

Canonical amino-acid sequenceUniProt

315 residues, UniProt reviewed canonical sequence.

>Q5SQH8|C6orf136
     1  MYQPSRGAAR RLGPCLRAYQ ARPQDQLYPG TLPFPPLWPH STTTTSPSSP LFWSPLPPRL
    61  PTQRLPQVPP LPLPQIQALS SAWVVLPPGK GEEGPGPELH SGCLDGLRSL FEGPPCPYPG
   121  AWIPFQVPGT AHPSPATPSG DPSMEEHLSV MYERLRQELP KLFLQSHDYS LYSLDVEFIN
   181  EILNIRTKGR TWYILSLTLC RFLAWNYFAH LRLEVLQLTR HPENWTLQAR WRLVGLPVHL
   241  LFLRFYKRDK DEHYRTYDAY STFYLNSSGL ICRHRLDKLM PSHSPPTPVK KLLVGALVAL
   301  GLSEPEPDLN LCSKP

LocalizationUniProt · AlphaFold · HPA

Whether an antibody against C6orf136 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)
0.5
Highest tissue expression
54 nTPM

Expression across tissuesHPA

Tissue

  • heart muscle: 54 nTPM
  • skeletal muscle: 48 nTPM
  • cerebellum: 46 nTPM
  • cerebral cortex: 46 nTPM
  • kidney: 40 nTPM
  • colon: 38 nTPM

Single-cell type

  • oocytes: 60 nCPM
  • early primary spermatocytes: 41 nCPM
  • enterocytes: 40 nCPM
  • parietal cells: 30 nCPM
  • brain excitatory neurons: 25 nCPM
  • brain inhibitory neurons: 25 nCPM

Immune cell

  • memory B-cell: 1.2 nTPM
  • naive CD4 T-cell: 1.1 nTPM
  • MAIT T-cell: 0.7 nTPM
  • memory CD4 T-cell: 0.7 nTPM
  • naive B-cell: 0.7 nTPM
  • naive CD8 T-cell: 0.7 nTPM

Brain region

  • cerebellum: 9.3 nTPM
  • choroid plexus: 8 nTPM
  • medulla oblongata: 7.8 nTPM
  • cerebral cortex: 7.5 nTPM
  • midbrain: 7.5 nTPM
  • white matter: 7.4 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)
0.35
gnomAD pLI
0.95
gnomAD missense Z
1.26
DepMap mean gene effect
-0.13
DepMap dependency class
selective

Cancer expressionTCGA

Across TCGA tumor cohorts, this protein is over-expressed in roughly 7% of surveyed tumor types (aggregate summary; per-cohort expression, alteration, and survival load in the interactive view).

Protein domainsUniProt · Pfam · InterPro

  • Protein of unknown function DUF2358
  • Uncharacterized conserved protein (DUF2358)

Antibody and autoantibody relevanceSeroatlas analysis

Seroatlas reads C6orf136 as an antibody target. Whether an autoantibody or antibody against C6orf136 could matter depends on whether native C6orf136 is physically reachable, whether the body needs it intact, and whether it acts in a disease-relevant tissue.

C6orf136 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 C6orf136 as an autoantigen. Seroatlas presents hypothesis context only and does not manufacture a known-serology claim.

Canonical record: https://seroatlas.com/gene/C6orf136. 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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