CHADL
Chondroadherin-like protein
Also known as: CHADL_HUMAN, SLRR4B
Cross-references: UniProt · Ensembl · Human Protein Atlas · GeneCards · NCBI Gene
Protein identityUniProt · HPA
- UniProt accession
- Q6NUI6
- Gene
- CHADL
- Ensembl
- ENSG00000100399
- Chromosome
- 22
- Canonical length
- 762 aa
- Protein class
- Predicted intracellular proteins, Predicted secreted proteins
- Secretome location
- Secreted to extracellular matrix
OverviewNCBI Gene
Enables collagen binding activity and collagen fibril binding activity. Involved in negative regulation of collagen fibril organization. Located in collagen-containing extracellular matrix. [provided by Alliance of Genome Resources, Apr 2025]
Canonical amino-acid sequenceUniProt
762 residues, UniProt reviewed canonical sequence.
>Q6NUI6|CHADL
1 MEGPRSSTHV PLVLPLLVLL LLAPARQAAA QRCPQACICD NSRRHVACRY QNLTEVPDAI
61 PELTQRLDLQ GNLLKVIPAA AFQGVPHLTH LDLRHCEVEL VAEGAFRGLG RLLLLNLASN
121 HLRELPQEAL DGLGSLRRLE LEGNALEELR PGTFGALGAL ATLNLAHNAL VYLPAMAFQG
181 LLRVRWLRLS HNALSVLAPE ALAGLPALRR LSLHHNELQA LPGPVLSQAR GLARLELGHN
241 PLTYAGEEDG LALPGLRELL LDGGALQALG PRAFAHCPRL HTLDLRGNQL DTLPPLQGPG
301 QLRRLRLQGN PLWCGCQARP LLEWLARARV RSDGACQGPR RLRGEALDAL RPWDLRCPGD
361 AAQEEEELEE RAVAGPRAPP RGPPRGPGEE RAVAPCPRAC VCVPESRHSS CEGCGLQAVP
421 RGFPSDTQLL DLRRNHFPSV PRAAFPGLGH LVSLHLQHCG IAELEAGALA GLGRLIYLYL
481 SDNQLAGLSA AALEGAPRLG YLYLERNRFL QVPGAALRAL PSLFSLHLQD NAVDRLAPGD
541 LGRTRALRWV YLSGNRITEV SLGALGPARE LEKLHLDRNQ LREVPTGALE GLPALLELQL
601 SGNPLRALRD GAFQPVGRSL QHLFLNSSGL EQICPGAFSG LGPGLQSLHL QKNQLRALPA
661 LPSLSQLELI DLSSNPFHCD CQLLPLHRWL TGLNLRVGAT CATPPNARGQ RVKAAAAVFE
721 DCPGWAARKA KRTPASRPSA RRTPIKGRQC GADKVGKEKG RLLocalizationUniProt · AlphaFold · HPA
Whether an antibody against CHADL 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)
- 0.29
- Highest tissue expression
- 110 nTPM
Expression across tissuesHPA
Tissue
- spinal cord: 110 nTPM
- midbrain: 47 nTPM
- hippocampal formation: 30 nTPM
- basal ganglia: 26 nTPM
- hypothalamus: 25 nTPM
- amygdala: 21 nTPM
Single-cell type
- oligodendrocytes: 103 nCPM
- schwann cells: 71 nCPM
- retinal pigment epithelial cells: 47 nCPM
- melanocytes: 46 nCPM
- breast lactating cells: 41 nCPM
- müller glia: 40 nCPM
Immune cell
- plasmacytoid DC: 1.2 nTPM
- eosinophil: 0.4 nTPM
- intermediate monocyte: 0.4 nTPM
- naive CD4 T-cell: 0.4 nTPM
- total PBMC: 0.3 nTPM
- MAIT T-cell: 0.2 nTPM
Brain region
- white matter: 218 nTPM
- medulla oblongata: 144 nTPM
- basal ganglia: 125 nTPM
- cerebellum: 118 nTPM
- thalamus: 114 nTPM
- midbrain: 105 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)
- 1.17
- gnomAD pLI
- 0
- gnomAD missense Z
- 1.96
- DepMap mean gene effect
- 0.03
- DepMap dependency class
- none
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
- negative regulation of chondrocyte differentiation
- negative regulation of collagen fibril organization
Molecular functions
- collagen binding
- collagen fibril binding
- extracellular matrix structural constituent conferring compression resistance
- signaling receptor activity
Cellular components
Protein domainsUniProt · Pfam · InterPro
KeywordsUniProt
Antibody and autoantibody relevanceSeroatlas analysis
Seroatlas reads CHADL as an antibody target. Whether an autoantibody or antibody against CHADL could matter depends on whether native CHADL is physically reachable, whether the body needs it intact, and whether it acts in a disease-relevant tissue.
CHADL is annotated as secreted, so native CHADL 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 CHADL as an autoantigen. Seroatlas presents hypothesis context only and does not manufacture a known-serology claim.
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