Seroatlas · Human Serome Atlas

CAB39L

Calcium-binding protein 39-like

Also known as: bA103J18.3, CB39L_HUMAN, FLJ12577, MO2L

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

Protein identityUniProt · HPA

UniProt accession
Q9H9S4
Gene
CAB39L
Ensembl
ENSG00000102547
Chromosome
13
Canonical length
337 aa
Protein class
Plasma proteins, Predicted intracellular proteins
Subcellular location
Vesicles

OverviewNCBI Gene

Predicted to enable protein serine/threonine kinase activator activity. Predicted to be involved in intracellular signal transduction. Predicted to be located in cytoplasm. Predicted to be part of serine/threonine protein kinase complex. [provided by Alliance of Genome Resources, Jul 2025]

Canonical amino-acid sequenceUniProt

337 residues, UniProt reviewed canonical sequence.

>Q9H9S4|CAB39L
     1  MKKMPLFSKS HKNPAEIVKI LKDNLAILEK QDKKTDKASE EVSKSLQAMK EILCGTNEKE
    61  PPTEAVAQLA QELYSSGLLV TLIADLQLID FEGKKDVTQI FNNILRRQIG TRSPTVEYIS
   121  AHPHILFMLL KGYEAPQIAL RCGIMLRECI RHEPLAKIIL FSNQFRDFFK YVELSTFDIA
   181  SDAFATFKDL LTRHKVLVAD FLEQNYDTIF EDYEKLLQSE NYVTKRQSLK LLGELILDRH
   241  NFAIMTKYIS KPENLKLMMN LLRDKSPNIQ FEAFHVFKVF VASPHKTQPI VEILLKNQPK
   301  LIEFLSSFQK ERTDDEQFAD EKNYLIKQIR DLKKTAP

LocalizationUniProt · AlphaFold · HPA

Whether an antibody against CAB39L 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
Intracellular
Secreted
No
Transmembrane segments
0
Mean surface accessibility (rSASA)
0.27
Highest tissue expression
88 nTPM

Expression across tissuesHPA

Tissue

  • choroid plexus: 88 nTPM
  • colon: 53 nTPM
  • prostate: 39 nTPM
  • adrenal gland: 35 nTPM
  • breast: 35 nTPM
  • testis: 31 nTPM

Single-cell type

  • choroid plexus epithelial cells: 585 nCPM
  • early spermatids: 299 nCPM
  • schwann cells: 297 nCPM
  • prostatic glandular cells: 297 nCPM
  • late primary spermatocytes: 211 nCPM
  • fibro-adipogenic progenitors: 207 nCPM

Immune cell

  • basophil: 6.7 nTPM
  • neutrophil: 5.6 nTPM
  • eosinophil: 5.4 nTPM
  • T-reg: 3.6 nTPM
  • memory CD8 T-cell: 3.4 nTPM
  • memory CD4 T-cell: 3.2 nTPM

Brain region

  • choroid plexus: 137 nTPM
  • hypothalamus: 76 nTPM
  • midbrain: 69 nTPM
  • thalamus: 60 nTPM
  • spinal cord: 52 nTPM
  • white matter: 52 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
gnomAD pLI
0
gnomAD missense Z
0.64
DepMap mean gene effect
0.02
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).

OntologyGO

Biological processes

Molecular functions

Cellular components

Protein domainsUniProt · Pfam · InterPro

InteractionsUniProt · HPA

Protein binding partners of CAB39L in the human serome: UniProt-annotated complex subunits plus reported interactors. Each links to its own Seroatlas record.

Antibody and autoantibody relevanceSeroatlas analysis

Seroatlas reads CAB39L as an antibody target. Whether an autoantibody or antibody against CAB39L could matter depends on whether native CAB39L is physically reachable, whether the body needs it intact, and whether it acts in a disease-relevant tissue.

CAB39L 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 CAB39L as an autoantigen. Seroatlas presents hypothesis context only and does not manufacture a known-serology claim.

Canonical record: https://seroatlas.com/gene/CAB39L. 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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