Seroatlas · Human Serome Atlas

CCZ1

Vacuolar fusion protein CCZ1 homolog

Also known as: C7orf28A, CCZ1_HUMAN, CCZ1A, CGI-43

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

Protein identityUniProt · HPA

UniProt accession
P86791
Gene
CCZ1
Ensembl
ENSG00000122674
Chromosome
7
Canonical length
482 aa
Protein class
Predicted intracellular proteins
Subcellular location
Vesicles

OverviewNCBI Gene

Enables guanyl-nucleotide exchange factor activity. Predicted to be involved in vesicle-mediated transport. Located in intracellular membrane-bounded organelle. Part of Mon1-Ccz1 complex. [provided by Alliance of Genome Resources, Apr 2025]

Canonical amino-acid sequenceUniProt

482 residues, UniProt reviewed canonical sequence.

>P86791|CCZ1
     1  MAAAAAGAGS GPWAAQEKQF PPALLSFFIY NPRFGPREGQ EENKILFYHP NEVEKNEKIR
    61  NVGLCEAIVQ FTRTFSPSKP AKSLHTQKNR QFFNEPEENF WMVMVVRNPI IEKQSKDGKP
   121  VIEYQEEELL DKVYSSVLRQ CYSMYKLFNG TFLKAMEDGG VKLLKERLEK FFHRYLQTLH
   181  LQSCDLLDIF GGISFFPLDK MTYLKIQSFI NRMEESLNIV KYTAFLYNDQ LIWSGLEQDD
   241  MRILYKYLTT SLFPRHIEPE LAGRDSPIRA EMPGNLQHYG RFLTGPLNLN DPDAKCRFPK
   301  IFVNTDDTYE ELHLIVYKAM SAAVCFMIDA SVHPTLDFCR RLDSIVGPQL TVLASDICEQ
   361  FNINKRMSGS EKEPQFKFIY FNHMNLAEKS TVHMRKTPSV SLTSVHPDLM KILGDINSDF
   421  TRVDEDEEII VKAMSDYWVV GKKSDRRELY VILNQKNANL IEVNEEVKKL CATQFNNIFF
   481  LD

LocalizationUniProt · AlphaFold · HPA

Whether an antibody against CCZ1 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
Other membrane
Secreted
No
Transmembrane segments
0
Mean surface accessibility (rSASA)
0.28
Highest tissue expression
28 nTPM

Expression across tissuesHPA

Tissue

  • parathyroid gland: 28 nTPM
  • bone marrow: 25 nTPM
  • adrenal gland: 21 nTPM
  • thymus: 19 nTPM
  • urinary bladder: 19 nTPM
  • heart muscle: 17 nTPM

Single-cell type

  • esophageal apical cells: 99 nCPM
  • gastric progenitor cells: 63 nCPM
  • adrenal cortex cells: 57 nCPM
  • foveolar cells: 54 nCPM
  • cytotrophoblasts: 52 nCPM
  • hepatic stellate cells: 52 nCPM

Immune cell

  • T-reg: 4.2 nTPM
  • NK-cell: 2.7 nTPM
  • eosinophil: 2.3 nTPM
  • non-classical monocyte: 2.3 nTPM
  • intermediate monocyte: 2.2 nTPM
  • memory CD8 T-cell: 2 nTPM

Brain region

  • choroid plexus: 16 nTPM
  • cerebellum: 13 nTPM
  • cerebral cortex: 12 nTPM
  • hippocampal formation: 12 nTPM
  • white matter: 12 nTPM
  • hypothalamus: 12 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)
0.92
gnomAD pLI
0
gnomAD missense Z
-0.19

Cancer expressionTCGA

Across TCGA tumor cohorts, this protein is over-expressed in roughly 11% 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

KeywordsUniProt

InteractionsUniProt · HPA

Protein binding partners of CCZ1 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 CCZ1 as an antibody target. Whether an autoantibody or antibody against CCZ1 could matter depends on whether native CCZ1 is physically reachable, whether the body needs it intact, and whether it acts in a disease-relevant tissue.

CCZ1 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 CCZ1 as an autoantigen. Seroatlas presents hypothesis context only and does not manufacture a known-serology claim.

Canonical record: https://seroatlas.com/gene/CCZ1. 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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