Seroatlas · Human Serome Atlas

CSDC2

Cold shock domain-containing protein C2

Also known as: CSDC2_HUMAN, PIPPin

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

Protein identityUniProt · HPA

UniProt accession
Q9Y534
Gene
CSDC2
Ensembl
ENSG00000172346
Chromosome
22
Canonical length
153 aa
Protein class
Predicted intracellular proteins
Subcellular location
Nucleoplasm,Cytosol

OverviewNCBI Gene

Predicted to enable mRNA 3'-UTR binding activity. Predicted to be involved in regulation of mRNA stability. Predicted to be located in nucleus. Predicted to be active in cytoplasm. [provided by Alliance of Genome Resources, Jul 2025]

Canonical amino-acid sequenceUniProt

153 residues, UniProt reviewed canonical sequence.

>Q9Y534|CSDC2
     1  MTSESTSPPV VPPLHSPKSP VWPTFPFHRE GSRVWERGGV PPRDLPSPLP TKRTRTYSAT
    61  ARASAGPVFK GVCKQFSRSQ GHGFITPENG SEDIFVHVSD IEGEYVPVEG DEVTYKMCPI
   121  PPKNQKFQAV EVVLTQLAPH TPHETWSGQV VGS

LocalizationUniProt · AlphaFold · HPA

Whether an antibody against CSDC2 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)
0.44
Highest tissue expression
301 nTPM

Expression across tissuesHPA

Tissue

  • heart muscle: 301 nTPM
  • adrenal gland: 154 nTPM
  • ovary: 143 nTPM
  • blood vessel: 101 nTPM
  • endometrium: 82 nTPM
  • cerebellum: 81 nTPM

Single-cell type

  • ovarian stromal cells: 148 nCPM
  • cardiomyocytes: 118 nCPM
  • müller glia: 87 nCPM
  • decidual stromal cells: 81 nCPM
  • sertoli cells: 78 nCPM
  • vascular smooth muscle cells: 76 nCPM

Immune cell

  • eosinophil: 0.2 nTPM
  • T-reg: 0.2 nTPM
  • basophil: 0.1 nTPM
  • classical monocyte: 0.1 nTPM
  • gdT-cell: 0.1 nTPM
  • intermediate monocyte: 0.1 nTPM

Brain region

  • cerebellum: 135 nTPM
  • thalamus: 98 nTPM
  • medulla oblongata: 96 nTPM
  • midbrain: 89 nTPM
  • pons: 78 nTPM
  • hypothalamus: 76 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)
1.67
gnomAD pLI
0
gnomAD missense Z
0.79
DepMap mean gene effect
-0.15
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

Molecular functions

Cellular components

Protein domainsUniProt · Pfam · InterPro

KeywordsUniProt

Antibody and autoantibody relevanceSeroatlas analysis

Seroatlas reads CSDC2 as an antibody target. Whether an autoantibody or antibody against CSDC2 could matter depends on whether native CSDC2 is physically reachable, whether the body needs it intact, and whether it acts in a disease-relevant tissue.

CSDC2 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 CSDC2 as an autoantigen. Seroatlas presents hypothesis context only and does not manufacture a known-serology claim.

Canonical record: https://seroatlas.com/gene/CSDC2. 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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