Seroatlas · Human Serome Atlas

CRABP1

Cellular retinoic acid-binding protein 1

Also known as: CRABP, CRABP-I, CRABPI, RABP1_HUMAN, RBP5

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

Protein identityUniProt · HPA

UniProt accession
P29762
Gene
CRABP1
Ensembl
ENSG00000166426
Chromosome
15
Canonical length
137 aa
Protein class
Cancer-related genes, Plasma proteins, Predicted intracellular proteins

OverviewNCBI Gene

This gene encodes a specific binding protein for a vitamin A family member and is thought to play an important role in retinoic acid-mediated differentiation and proliferation processes. It is structurally similar to the cellular retinol-binding proteins, but binds only retinoic acid at specific sites within the nucleus, which may contribute to vitamin A-directed differentiation in epithelial tissue. [provided by RefSeq, Jul 2008]

Canonical amino-acid sequenceUniProt

137 residues, UniProt reviewed canonical sequence.

>P29762|CRABP1
     1  MPNFAGTWKM RSSENFDELL KALGVNAMLR KVAVAAASKP HVEIRQDGDQ FYIKTSTTVR
    61  TTEINFKVGE GFEEETVDGR KCRSLATWEN ENKIHCTQTL LEGDGPKTYW TRELANDELI
   121  LTFGADDVVC TRIYVRE

LocalizationUniProt · AlphaFold · HPA

Whether an antibody against CRABP1 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)
0.29
Highest tissue expression
505 nTPM

Expression across tissuesHPA

Tissue

  • retina: 505 nTPM
  • thyroid gland: 163 nTPM
  • choroid plexus: 94 nTPM
  • basal ganglia: 84 nTPM
  • hypothalamus: 82 nTPM
  • spleen: 75 nTPM

Single-cell type

  • müller glia: 3,412 nCPM
  • oocytes: 355 nCPM
  • melanocytes: 241 nCPM
  • breast lactating cells: 197 nCPM
  • breast secretory cells: 86 nCPM
  • retinal amacrine cells: 57 nCPM

Immune cell

  • myeloid DC: 0.1 nTPM
  • basophil: 0 nTPM
  • classical monocyte: 0 nTPM
  • eosinophil: 0 nTPM
  • gdT-cell: 0 nTPM
  • intermediate monocyte: 0 nTPM

Brain region

  • thalamus: 182 nTPM
  • medulla oblongata: 117 nTPM
  • midbrain: 117 nTPM
  • pons: 112 nTPM
  • hypothalamus: 70 nTPM
  • choroid plexus: 49 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)
1.44
gnomAD pLI
0.01
gnomAD missense Z
0.8
DepMap mean gene effect
-0.02
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

Molecular functions

Cellular components

Protein domainsUniProt · Pfam · InterPro

KeywordsUniProt

Antibody and autoantibody relevanceSeroatlas analysis

Seroatlas reads CRABP1 as an antibody target. Whether an autoantibody or antibody against CRABP1 could matter depends on whether native CRABP1 is physically reachable, whether the body needs it intact, and whether it acts in a disease-relevant tissue.

CRABP1 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 CRABP1 as an autoantigen. Seroatlas presents hypothesis context only and does not manufacture a known-serology claim.

Canonical record: https://seroatlas.com/gene/CRABP1. 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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