Seroatlas · Human Serome Atlas

CILP

Cartilage intermediate layer protein 1

Also known as: CILP1_HUMAN, HsT18872

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

Protein identityUniProt · HPA

UniProt accession
O75339
Gene
CILP
Ensembl
ENSG00000138615
Chromosome
15
Canonical length
1184 aa
Protein class
Disease related genes, Human disease related genes, Predicted secreted proteins
Secretome location
Secreted to extracellular matrix

OverviewNCBI Gene

Major alterations in the composition of the cartilage extracellular matrix occur in joint disease, such as osteoarthrosis. This gene encodes the cartilage intermediate layer protein (CILP), which increases in early osteoarthrosis cartilage. The encoded protein was thought to encode a protein precursor for two different proteins; an N-terminal CILP and a C-terminal homolog of NTPPHase, however, later studies identified no nucleotide pyrophosphatase phosphodiesterase (NPP) activity. The full-length and the N-terminal domain of this protein was shown to function as an IGF-1 antagonist. An allelic variant of this gene has been associated with lumbar disc disease. [provided by RefSeq, Sep 2010]

Canonical amino-acid sequenceUniProt

1184 residues, UniProt reviewed canonical sequence.

>O75339|CILP
     1  MVGTKAWVFS FLVLEVTSVL GRQTMLTQSV RRVQPGKKNP SIFAKPADTL ESPGEWTTWF
    61  NIDYPGGKGD YERLDAIRFY YGDRVCARPL RLEARTTDWT PAGSTGQVVH GSPREGFWCL
   121  NREQRPGQNC SNYTVRFLCP PGSLRRDTER IWSPWSPWSK CSAACGQTGV QTRTRICLAE
   181  MVSLCSEASE EGQHCMGQDC TACDLTCPMG QVNADCDACM CQDFMLHGAV SLPGGAPASG
   241  AAIYLLTKTP KLLTQTDSDG RFRIPGLCPD GKSILKITKV KFAPIVLTMP KTSLKAATIK
   301  AEFVRAETPY MVMNPETKAR RAGQSVSLCC KATGKPRPDK YFWYHNDTLL DPSLYKHESK
   361  LVLRKLQQHQ AGEYFCKAQS DAGAVKSKVA QLIVIASDET PCNPVPESYL IRLPHDCFQN
   421  ATNSFYYDVG RCPVKTCAGQ QDNGIRCRDA VQNCCGISKT EEREIQCSGY TLPTKVAKEC
   481  SCQRCTETRS IVRGRVSAAD NGEPMRFGHV YMGNSRVSMT GYKGTFTLHV PQDTERLVLT
   541  FVDRLQKFVN TTKVLPFNKK GSAVFHEIKM LRRKKPITLE AMETNIIPLG EVVGEDPMAE
   601  LEIPSRSFYR QNGEPYIGKV KASVTFLDPR NISTATAAQT DLNFINDEGD TFPLRTYGMF
   661  SVDFRDEVTS EPLNAGKVKV HLDSTQVKMP EHISTVKLWS LNPDTGLWEE EGDFKFENQR
   721  RNKREDRTFL VGNLEIRERR LFNLDVPESR RCFVKVRAYR SERFLPSEQI QGVVISVINL
   781  EPRTGFLSNP RAWGRFDSVI TGPNGACVPA FCDDQSPDAY SAYVLASLAG EELQAVESSP
   841  KFNPNAIGVP QPYLNKLNYR RTDHEDPRVK KTAFQISMAK PRPNSAEESN GPIYAFENLR
   901  ACEEAPPSAA HFRFYQIEGD RYDYNTVPFN EDDPMSWTED YLAWWPKPME FRACYIKVKI
   961  VGPLEVNVRS RNMGGTHRQT VGKLYGIRDV RSTRDRDQPN VSAACLEFKC SGMLYDQDRV
  1021  DRTLVKVIPQ GSCRRASVNP MLHEYLVNHL PLAVNNDTSE YTMLAPLDPL GHNYGIYTVT
  1081  DQDPRTAKEI ALGRCFDGTS DGSSRIMKSN VGVALTFNCV ERQVGRQSAF QYLQSTPAQS
  1141  PAAGTVQGRV PSRRQQRASR GGQRQGGVVA SLRFPRVAQQ PLIN

LocalizationUniProt · AlphaFold · HPA

Whether an antibody against CILP 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)
0.31
Highest tissue expression
48 nTPM

Expression across tissuesHPA

Tissue

  • smooth muscle: 48 nTPM
  • adipose tissue: 47 nTPM
  • cervix: 42 nTPM
  • gallbladder: 35 nTPM
  • tongue: 31 nTPM
  • urinary bladder: 27 nTPM

Single-cell type

  • leydig cells: 363 nCPM
  • thymic myoid cells: 330 nCPM
  • fibroblasts: 164 nCPM
  • peritubular myoid cells: 83 nCPM
  • fibro-adipogenic progenitors: 63 nCPM
  • hepatic stellate cells: 58 nCPM

Immune cell

  • basophil: 0 nTPM
  • classical monocyte: 0 nTPM
  • eosinophil: 0 nTPM
  • gdT-cell: 0 nTPM
  • intermediate monocyte: 0 nTPM
  • MAIT T-cell: 0 nTPM

Brain region

  • cerebellum: 0.4 nTPM
  • spinal cord: 0.3 nTPM
  • amygdala: 0.2 nTPM
  • basal ganglia: 0.2 nTPM
  • cerebral cortex: 0.2 nTPM
  • hippocampal formation: 0.2 nTPM

DiseaseUniProt · ClinVar · IEDB · PubMed

Four sources answering four different questions about CILP.

Disease | AllUniProt

Conditions CILP is implicated in, by any mechanism.

Disease | ImmuneIEDB

Conditions an epitope on CILP was assayed in.

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)
1.29
gnomAD pLI
0
gnomAD missense Z
0.17
DepMap mean gene effect
-0.12
DepMap dependency class
selective

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

Cellular components

Protein domainsUniProt · Pfam · InterPro

KeywordsUniProt

InteractionsUniProt · HPA

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

CILP is annotated as secreted, so native CILP 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 CILP as an autoantigen. Seroatlas presents hypothesis context only and does not manufacture a known-serology claim.

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