Seroatlas · Human Serome Atlas

CHAD

Chondroadherin

Also known as: CHAD_HUMAN, SLRR4A

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

Protein identityUniProt · HPA

UniProt accession
O15335
Gene
CHAD
Ensembl
ENSG00000136457
Chromosome
17
Canonical length
359 aa
Protein class
Plasma proteins, Predicted intracellular proteins, Predicted secreted proteins
Secretome location
Secreted to extracellular matrix

OverviewNCBI Gene

Chondroadherin is a cartilage matrix protein thought to mediate adhesion of isolated chondrocytes. The protein contains 11 leucine-rich repeats flanked by cysteine-rich regions. The chondroadherin messenger RNA is present in chondrocytes at all ages. [provided by RefSeq, Jul 2008]

Canonical amino-acid sequenceUniProt

359 residues, UniProt reviewed canonical sequence.

>O15335|CHAD
     1  MVRPMLLLSL GLLAGLLPAL AACPQNCHCH SDLQHVICDK VGLQKIPKVS EKTKLLNLQR
    61  NNFPVLAANS FRAMPNLVSL HLQHCQIREV AAGAFRGLKQ LIYLYLSHND IRVLRAGAFD
   121  DLTELTYLYL DHNKVTELPR GLLSPLVNLF ILQLNNNKIR ELRAGAFQGA KDLRWLYLSE
   181  NALSSLQPGA LDDVENLAKF HVDRNQLSSY PSAALSKLRV VEELKLSHNP LKSIPDNAFQ
   241  SFGRYLETLW LDNTNLEKFS DGAFLGVTTL KHVHLENNRL NQLPSNFPFD SLETLALTNN
   301  PWKCTCQLRG LRRWLEAKAS RPDATCASPA KFKGQHIRDT DAFRSCKFPT KRSKKAGRH

LocalizationUniProt · AlphaFold · HPA

Whether an antibody against CHAD 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
Secreted
Secreted
Yes
Transmembrane segments
0
Mean surface accessibility (rSASA)
0.28
Highest tissue expression
37 nTPM

Expression across tissuesHPA

Tissue

  • liver: 37 nTPM
  • cerebellum: 34 nTPM
  • pancreas: 30 nTPM
  • salivary gland: 23 nTPM
  • cervix: 21 nTPM
  • skeletal muscle: 15 nTPM

Single-cell type

  • myonuclei: 16 nCPM
  • papillary tip epithelial cells: 16 nCPM
  • salivary duct cells: 15 nCPM
  • oligodendrocyte progenitor cells: 15 nCPM
  • goblet cells: 13 nCPM
  • breast hormone-responsive cells: 9.8 nCPM

Immune cell

  • memory B-cell: 22 nTPM
  • naive B-cell: 8.1 nTPM
  • total PBMC: 0.6 nTPM
  • memory CD4 T-cell: 0.2 nTPM
  • plasmacytoid DC: 0.2 nTPM
  • myeloid DC: 0.1 nTPM

Brain region

  • cerebellum: 31 nTPM
  • basal ganglia: 11 nTPM
  • hypothalamus: 7.8 nTPM
  • amygdala: 7.4 nTPM
  • cerebral cortex: 7.1 nTPM
  • pons: 6.9 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
0.01
gnomAD missense Z
0.68
DepMap mean gene effect
-0.11
DepMap dependency class
selective

Cancer expressionTCGA

Across TCGA tumor cohorts, this protein is over-expressed in roughly 3% 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

Antibody and autoantibody relevanceSeroatlas analysis

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

CHAD is annotated as secreted, so native CHAD circulates and is directly accessible to antibodies. Secreted and cell-surface proteins are the autoantibody targets most likely to act like drugs, blocking or depleting the native protein.

Annotation status

The present source text does not explicitly label CHAD as an autoantigen. Seroatlas presents hypothesis context only and does not manufacture a known-serology claim.

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