Seroatlas · Human Serome Atlas

CTRC

Chymotrypsin-C

Also known as: CLCR, CTRC_HUMAN, ELA4

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

Protein identityUniProt · HPA

UniProt accession
Q99895
Gene
CTRC
Ensembl
ENSG00000162438
Chromosome
1
Canonical length
268 aa
Protein class
Disease related genes, Enzymes, Human disease related genes, Potential drug targets, Predicted secreted proteins
Secretome location
Secreted to digestive system

OverviewNCBI Gene

This gene encodes a member of the peptidase S1 family. The encoded protein is a serum calcium-decreasing factor that has chymotrypsin-like protease activity. Alternatively spliced transcript variants have been observed, but their full-length nature has not been determined. [provided by RefSeq, Jul 2008]

Canonical amino-acid sequenceUniProt

268 residues, UniProt reviewed canonical sequence.

>Q99895|CTRC
     1  MLGITVLAAL LACASSCGVP SFPPNLSARV VGGEDARPHS WPWQISLQYL KNDTWRHTCG
    61  GTLIASNFVL TAAHCISNTR TYRVAVGKNN LEVEDEEGSL FVGVDTIHVH KRWNALLLRN
   121  DIALIKLAEH VELSDTIQVA CLPEKDSLLP KDYPCYVTGW GRLWTNGPIA DKLQQGLQPV
   181  VDHATCSRID WWGFRVKKTM VCAGGDGVIS ACNGDSGGPL NCQLENGSWE VFGIVSFGSR
   241  RGCNTRKKPV VYTRVSAYID WINEKMQL

LocalizationUniProt · AlphaFold · HPA

Whether an antibody against CTRC 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
Unknown
Secreted
No
Transmembrane segments
0
Mean surface accessibility (rSASA)
0.26
Highest tissue expression
12,513 nTPM

Expression across tissuesHPA

Tissue

  • pancreas: 12,513 nTPM
  • ovary: 2.2 nTPM
  • heart muscle: 2 nTPM
  • salivary gland: 2 nTPM
  • duodenum: 1.1 nTPM
  • adipose tissue: 0.9 nTPM

Single-cell type

  • pancreatic acinar cells: 27,400 nCPM
  • pancreatic duct cells: 118 nCPM
  • monocytes: 30 nCPM
  • endometrial luminal cells: 10 nCPM
  • mast cells: 9.7 nCPM
  • pancreatic islet cells: 8.9 nCPM

Immune cell

  • basophil: 0.6 nTPM
  • neutrophil: 0.2 nTPM
  • NK-cell: 0.2 nTPM
  • naive B-cell: 0.1 nTPM
  • classical monocyte: 0 nTPM
  • eosinophil: 0 nTPM

Brain region

  • cerebellum: 3 nTPM
  • cerebral cortex: 2.5 nTPM
  • amygdala: 2.2 nTPM
  • hippocampal formation: 2.2 nTPM
  • pons: 2.2 nTPM
  • thalamus: 2.2 nTPM

DiseaseUniProt · ClinVar · IEDB · PubMed

Four sources answering four different questions about CTRC.

Disease | AllUniProt

Conditions CTRC is implicated in, by any mechanism.

Disease | GeneticClinVar

17 pathogenic / likely-pathogenic of 754 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)
1.69
gnomAD pLI
0
gnomAD missense Z
-0.13
DepMap mean gene effect
0
DepMap dependency class
none

Cancer expressionTCGA

Across TCGA tumor cohorts, this protein is over-expressed in roughly 2% of surveyed tumor types (aggregate summary; per-cohort expression, alteration, and survival load in the interactive view).

OntologyGO

Biological processes

Molecular functions

Protein domainsUniProt · Pfam · InterPro

KeywordsUniProt

Antibody and autoantibody relevanceSeroatlas analysis

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

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

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