Seroatlas · Human Serome Atlas

CLTB

Clathrin light chain B

Also known as: CLCB_HUMAN, Lcb

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

Protein identityUniProt · HPA

UniProt accession
P09497
Gene
CLTB
Ensembl
ENSG00000175416
Chromosome
5
Canonical length
229 aa
Protein class
Plasma proteins, Predicted intracellular proteins, Transporters
Subcellular location
Vesicles,Plasma membrane,Cytosol

OverviewNCBI Gene

Clathrin is a large, soluble protein composed of heavy and light chains. It functions as the main structural component of the lattice-type cytoplasmic face of coated pits and vesicles which entrap specific macromolecules during receptor-mediated endocytosis. This gene encodes one of two clathrin light chain proteins which are believed to function as regulatory elements. Alternative splicing results in multiple transcript variants. [provided by RefSeq, Jul 2008]

Canonical amino-acid sequenceUniProt

229 residues, UniProt reviewed canonical sequence.

>P09497|CLTB
     1  MADDFGFFSS SESGAPEAAE EDPAAAFLAQ QESEIAGIEN DEGFGAPAGS HAAPAQPGPT
    61  SGAGSEDMGT TVNGDVFQEA NGPADGYAAI AQADRLTQEP ESIRKWREEQ RKRLQELDAA
   121  SKVTEQEWRE KAKKDLEEWN QRQSEQVEKN KINNRIADKA FYQQPDADII GYVASEEAFV
   181  KESKEETPGT EWEKVAQLCD FNPKSSKQCK DVSRLRSVLM SLKQTPLSR

LocalizationUniProt · AlphaFold · HPA

Whether an antibody against CLTB 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
Intracellular
Secreted
No
Transmembrane segments
0
Mean surface accessibility (rSASA)
0.56
Highest tissue expression
494 nTPM

Expression across tissuesHPA

Tissue

  • esophagus: 494 nTPM
  • skin: 473 nTPM
  • skeletal muscle: 335 nTPM
  • heart muscle: 325 nTPM
  • vagina: 311 nTPM
  • cervix: 239 nTPM

Single-cell type

  • esophageal apical cells: 4,480 nCPM
  • esophageal suprabasal cells: 2,587 nCPM
  • suprabasal keratinocytes: 994 nCPM
  • esophageal basal cells: 953 nCPM
  • extravillous trophoblasts: 908 nCPM
  • colonocytes: 688 nCPM

Immune cell

  • eosinophil: 62 nTPM
  • neutrophil: 37 nTPM
  • T-reg: 25 nTPM
  • non-classical monocyte: 21 nTPM
  • myeloid DC: 20 nTPM
  • classical monocyte: 20 nTPM

Brain region

  • cerebral cortex: 177 nTPM
  • pons: 149 nTPM
  • white matter: 132 nTPM
  • medulla oblongata: 131 nTPM
  • hypothalamus: 130 nTPM
  • thalamus: 128 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)
0.6
gnomAD pLI
0.33
gnomAD missense Z
1.02
DepMap mean gene effect
-0.08
DepMap dependency class
selective

Cancer expressionTCGA

Across TCGA tumor cohorts, this protein is over-expressed in roughly 5% 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 CLTB 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 CLTB as an antibody target. Whether an autoantibody or antibody against CLTB could matter depends on whether native CLTB is physically reachable, whether the body needs it intact, and whether it acts in a disease-relevant tissue.

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

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