Seroatlas · Human Serome Atlas

COG1

Conserved oligomeric Golgi complex subunit 1

Also known as: COG1_HUMAN, KIAA1381, LDLB

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

Protein identityUniProt · HPA

UniProt accession
Q8WTW3
Gene
COG1
Ensembl
ENSG00000166685
Chromosome
17
Canonical length
980 aa
Protein class
Disease related genes, Human disease related genes, Predicted intracellular proteins

OverviewNCBI Gene

The protein encoded by this gene is one of eight proteins (Cog1-8) which form a Golgi-localized complex (COG) required for normal Golgi morphology and function. It is thought that this protein is required for steps in the normal medial and trans Golgi-associated processing of glycoconjugates and plays a role in the organization of the Golgi-localized complex. [provided by RefSeq, Jul 2008]

Canonical amino-acid sequenceUniProt

980 residues, UniProt reviewed canonical sequence.

>Q8WTW3|COG1
     1  MATAATSPAL KRLDLRDPAA LFETHGAEEI RGLERQVRAE IEHKKEELRQ MVGERYRDLI
    61  EAADTIGQMR RCAVGLVDAV KATDQYCARL RQAGSAAPRP PRAQQPQQPS QEKFYSMAAQ
   121  IKLLLEIPEK IWSSMEASQC LHATQLYLLC CHLHSLLQLD SSSSRYSPVL SRFPILIRQV
   181  AAASHFRSTI LHESKMLLKC QGVSDQAVAE ALCSIMLLEE SSPRQALTDF LLARKATIQK
   241  LLNQPHHGAG IKAQICSLVE LLATTLKQAH ALFYTLPEGL LPDPALPCGL LFSTLETITG
   301  QHPAGKGTGV LQEEMKLCSW FKHLPASIVE FQPTLRTLAH PISQEYLKDT LQKWIHMCNE
   361  DIKNGITNLL MYVKSMKGLA GIRDAMWELL TNESTNHSWD VLCRRLLEKP LLFWEDMMQQ
   421  LFLDRLQTLT KEGFDSISSS SKELLVSALQ ELESSTSNSP SNKHIHFEYN MSLFLWSESP
   481  NDLPSDAAWV SVANRGQFAS SGLSMKAQAI SPCVQNFCSA LDSKLKVKLD DLLAYLPSDD
   541  SSLPKDVSPT QAKSSAFDRY ADAGTVQEML RTQSVACIKH IVDCIRAELQ SIEEGVQGQQ
   601  DALNSAKLHS VLFMARLCQS LGELCPHLKQ CILGKSESSE KPAREFRALR KQGKVKTQEI
   661  IPTQAKWQEV KEVLLQQSVM GYQVWSSAVV KVLIHGFTQS LLLDDAGSVL ATATSWDELE
   721  IQEEAESGSS VTSKIRLPAQ PSWYVQSFLF SLCQEINRVG GHALPKVTLQ EMLKSCMVQV
   781  VAAYEKLSEE KQIKKEGAFP VTQNRALQLL YDLRYLNIVL TAKGDEVKSG RSKPDSRIEK
   841  VTDHLEALID PFDLDVFTPH LNSNLHRLVQ RTSVLFGLVT GTENQLAPRS STFNSQEPHN
   901  ILPLASSQIR FGLLPLSMTS TRKAKSTRNI ETKAQVVPPA RSTAGDPTVP GSLFRQLVSE
   961  EDNTSAPSLF KLGWLSSMTK

LocalizationUniProt · AlphaFold · HPA

Whether an antibody against COG1 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)
0.36
Highest tissue expression
54 nTPM

Expression across tissuesHPA

Tissue

  • skeletal muscle: 54 nTPM
  • basal ganglia: 49 nTPM
  • heart muscle: 43 nTPM
  • cerebellum: 42 nTPM
  • cerebral cortex: 41 nTPM
  • hippocampal formation: 35 nTPM

Single-cell type

  • cardiomyocytes: 44 nCPM
  • adrenal cortex cells: 41 nCPM
  • brain excitatory neurons: 40 nCPM
  • somatotrophs: 32 nCPM
  • brain inhibitory neurons: 32 nCPM
  • retinal amacrine cells: 31 nCPM

Immune cell

  • eosinophil: 19 nTPM
  • naive CD8 T-cell: 19 nTPM
  • memory CD4 T-cell: 19 nTPM
  • MAIT T-cell: 18 nTPM
  • NK-cell: 18 nTPM
  • memory CD8 T-cell: 17 nTPM

Brain region

  • cerebral cortex: 67 nTPM
  • basal ganglia: 60 nTPM
  • hippocampal formation: 55 nTPM
  • amygdala: 52 nTPM
  • hypothalamus: 44 nTPM
  • white matter: 43 nTPM

DiseaseUniProt · ClinVar · IEDB · PubMed

Four sources answering four different questions about COG1.

Disease | AllUniProt

Conditions COG1 is implicated in, by any mechanism.

Disease | GeneticClinVar

24 pathogenic / likely-pathogenic of 570 ClinVar records.

Conditions with pathogenic or likely-pathogenic variants.

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)
0.65
gnomAD pLI
0
gnomAD missense Z
-0.18
DepMap mean gene effect
-0.49
DepMap dependency class
selective

Cancer expressionTCGA

Across TCGA tumor cohorts, this protein is over-expressed in roughly 8% 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 COG1 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 COG1 as an antibody target. Whether an autoantibody or antibody against COG1 could matter depends on whether native COG1 is physically reachable, whether the body needs it intact, and whether it acts in a disease-relevant tissue.

COG1 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 COG1 as an autoantigen. Seroatlas presents hypothesis context only and does not manufacture a known-serology claim.

Canonical record: https://seroatlas.com/gene/COG1. 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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