Seroatlas · Human Serome Atlas

COG8

Conserved oligomeric Golgi complex subunit 8

Also known as: COG8_HUMAN, DOR1, FLJ22315

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

Protein identityUniProt · HPA

UniProt accession
Q96MW5
Gene
COG8
Ensembl
ENSG00000213380
Chromosome
16
Canonical length
612 aa
Protein class
Disease related genes, Human disease related genes, Plasma proteins, Predicted intracellular proteins
Subcellular location
Golgi apparatus

OverviewNCBI Gene

This gene encodes a protein that is a component of the conserved oligomeric Golgi (COG) complex, a multiprotein complex that plays a structural role in the Golgi apparatus, and is involved in intracellular membrane trafficking and glycoprotein modification. Mutations in this gene cause congenital disorder of glycosylation, type IIh, a disease that is characterized by under-glycosylated serum proteins, and whose symptoms include severe psychomotor retardation, failure to thrive, seizures, and dairy and wheat product intolerance. [provided by RefSeq, Jul 2008]

Canonical amino-acid sequenceUniProt

612 residues, UniProt reviewed canonical sequence.

>Q96MW5|COG8
     1  MATAATIPSV ATATAAALGE VEDEGLLASL FRDRFPEAQW RERPDVGRYL RELSGSGLER
    61  LRREPERLAE ERAQLLQQTR DLAFANYKTF IRGAECTERI HRLFGDVEAS LGRLLDRLPS
   121  FQQSCRNFVK EAEEISSNRR MNSLTLNRHT EILEILEIPQ LMDTCVRNSY YEEALELAAY
   181  VRRLERKYSS IPVIQGIVNE VRQSMQLMLS QLIQQLRTNI QLPACLRVIG YLRRMDVFTE
   241  AELRVKFLQA RDAWLRSILT AIPNDDPYFH ITKTIEASRV HLFDIITQYR AIFSDEDPLL
   301  PPAMGEHTVN ESAIFHGWVL QKVSQFLQVL ETDLYRGIGG HLDSLLGQCM YFGLSFSRVG
   361  ADFRGQLAPV FQRVAISTFQ KAIQETVEKF QEEMNSYMLI SAPAILGTSN MPAAVPATQP
   421  GTLQPPMVLL DFPPLACFLN NILVAFNDLR LCCPVALAQD VTGALEDALA KVTKIILAFH
   481  RAEEAAFSSG EQELFVQFCT VFLEDLVPYL NRCLQVLFPP AQIAQTLGIP PTQLSKYGNL
   541  GHVNIGAIQE PLAFILPKRE TLFTLDDQAL GPELTAPAPE PPAEEPRLEP AGPACPEGGR
   601  AETQAEPPSV GP

LocalizationUniProt · AlphaFold · HPA

Whether an antibody against COG8 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)
0.4
Highest tissue expression
23 nTPM

Expression across tissuesHPA

Tissue

  • skeletal muscle: 23 nTPM
  • testis: 21 nTPM
  • liver: 20 nTPM
  • parathyroid gland: 19 nTPM
  • pancreas: 18 nTPM
  • adrenal gland: 17 nTPM

Single-cell type

  • epicardial cells: 52 nCPM
  • cardiomyocytes: 43 nCPM
  • myonuclei: 26 nCPM
  • hepatocytes: 26 nCPM
  • oligodendrocytes: 18 nCPM
  • respiratory ionocytes: 18 nCPM

Immune cell

  • basophil: 42 nTPM
  • NK-cell: 22 nTPM
  • eosinophil: 21 nTPM
  • classical monocyte: 20 nTPM
  • MAIT T-cell: 20 nTPM
  • T-reg: 20 nTPM

Brain region

  • white matter: 49 nTPM
  • choroid plexus: 44 nTPM
  • basal ganglia: 40 nTPM
  • cerebellum: 39 nTPM
  • cerebral cortex: 38 nTPM
  • medulla oblongata: 37 nTPM

DiseaseUniProt · ClinVar · IEDB · PubMed

Four sources answering four different questions about COG8.

Disease | AllUniProt

Conditions COG8 is implicated in, by any mechanism.

Disease | GeneticClinVar

17 pathogenic / likely-pathogenic of 295 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)
1.13
gnomAD pLI
0
gnomAD missense Z
-0.09
DepMap mean gene effect
-0.56
DepMap dependency class
common

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 COG8 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 COG8 as an antibody target. Whether an autoantibody or antibody against COG8 could matter depends on whether native COG8 is physically reachable, whether the body needs it intact, and whether it acts in a disease-relevant tissue.

COG8 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 COG8 as an autoantigen. Seroatlas presents hypothesis context only and does not manufacture a known-serology claim.

Canonical record: https://seroatlas.com/gene/COG8. 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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