Seroatlas · Human Serome Atlas

CCDC169

Coiled-coil domain-containing protein 169

Also known as: C13orf38, CC169_HUMAN, LOC728591, RP11-251J8.1

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

Protein identityUniProt · HPA

UniProt accession
A6NNP5
Gene
CCDC169
Ensembl
ENSG00000242715
Chromosome
13
Canonical length
214 aa
Protein class
Predicted intracellular proteins
Subcellular location
Nucleoplasm,Nuclear speckles,Vesicles

OverviewNCBI Gene

No narrative summary is available for CCDC169 in this catalog release; identity and structured annotations are shown without generated factual claims.

Canonical amino-acid sequenceUniProt

214 residues, UniProt reviewed canonical sequence.

>A6NNP5|CCDC169
     1  MKEERNYNFD GVSTNRLKQQ LLEEVRKKDA VQLSIFELRH KITELEAKLN TDNEGSEWKT
    61  RYETQLELND ELEKQIVYLK EKVEKIHGNS SDRLSSIRVY ERMPVESLNT LLKQLEEEKK
   121  TLESQVKYYA LKLEQESKAY QKINNERRTY LAEMSQGSGL HQVSKRQQVD QLPRMQENLV
   181  KTGRYNPAKQ KTVSAKRGPV KKITRPNHLP ELHP

LocalizationUniProt · AlphaFold · HPA

Whether an antibody against CCDC169 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)
0.55
Highest tissue expression
56 nTPM

Expression across tissuesHPA

Tissue

  • testis: 56 nTPM
  • bone marrow: 2.7 nTPM
  • epididymis: 2.3 nTPM
  • retina: 2.3 nTPM
  • parathyroid gland: 1.8 nTPM
  • smooth muscle: 1.4 nTPM

Single-cell type

  • late spermatids: 2,737 nCPM
  • early spermatids: 700 nCPM
  • late primary spermatocytes: 321 nCPM
  • bergmann glia: 25 nCPM
  • choroid plexus epithelial cells: 20 nCPM
  • early primary spermatocytes: 12 nCPM

Immune cell

  • basophil: 0.2 nTPM
  • neutrophil: 0.2 nTPM
  • naive B-cell: 0.1 nTPM
  • NK-cell: 0.1 nTPM
  • classical monocyte: 0 nTPM
  • eosinophil: 0 nTPM

Brain region

  • cerebral cortex: 22 nTPM
  • white matter: 21 nTPM
  • cerebellum: 21 nTPM
  • basal ganglia: 19 nTPM
  • amygdala: 17 nTPM
  • hippocampal formation: 17 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)
1.25
gnomAD pLI
0
gnomAD missense Z
0.33
DepMap mean gene effect
0.04
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

  • Protein of unknown function DUF4600
  • Domain of unknown function (DUF4600)

KeywordsUniProt

Antibody and autoantibody relevanceSeroatlas analysis

Seroatlas reads CCDC169 as an antibody target. Whether an autoantibody or antibody against CCDC169 could matter depends on whether native CCDC169 is physically reachable, whether the body needs it intact, and whether it acts in a disease-relevant tissue.

CCDC169 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 CCDC169 as an autoantigen. Seroatlas presents hypothesis context only and does not manufacture a known-serology claim.

Canonical record: https://seroatlas.com/gene/CCDC169. 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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