Seroatlas · Human Serome Atlas

CYBC1

Cytochrome b-245 chaperone 1

Also known as: C17orf62, CYBC1_HUMAN, Eros, FLJ90469, MGC4368

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

Protein identityUniProt · HPA

UniProt accession
Q9BQA9
Gene
CYBC1
Ensembl
ENSG00000178927
Chromosome
17
Canonical length
187 aa
Protein class
Disease related genes, Human disease related genes, Predicted intracellular proteins, Predicted membrane proteins
Subcellular location
Plasma membrane,Cell Junctions

OverviewNCBI Gene

Involved in innate immune response and respiratory burst after phagocytosis. Located in endoplasmic reticulum. Implicated in autosomal recessive chronic granulomatous disease 5. [provided by Alliance of Genome Resources, Jul 2025]

Canonical amino-acid sequenceUniProt

187 residues, UniProt reviewed canonical sequence.

>Q9BQA9|CYBC1
     1  MYLQVETRTS SRLHLKRAPG IRSWSLLVGI LSIGLAAAYY SGDSLGWKLF YVTGCLFVAV
    61  QNLEDWEEAI FDKSTGKVVL KTFSLYKKLL TLFRAGHDQV VVLLHDVRDV SVEEEKVRYF
   121  GKGYMVVLRL ATGFSHPLTQ SAVMGHRSDV EAIAKLITSF LELHCLESPT ELSQSSDSEA
   181  GDPASQS

LocalizationUniProt · AlphaFold · HPA

Whether an antibody against CYBC1 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
1
Mean surface accessibility (rSASA)
0.36
Highest tissue expression
111 nTPM

Expression across tissuesHPA

Tissue

  • spleen: 111 nTPM
  • liver: 59 nTPM
  • small intestine: 45 nTPM
  • lymph node: 41 nTPM
  • prostate: 41 nTPM
  • pancreas: 40 nTPM

Single-cell type

  • neutrophils: 125 nCPM
  • hofbauer cells: 108 nCPM
  • plasma cells: 80 nCPM
  • b-cells: 71 nCPM
  • epididymal principal cells: 68 nCPM
  • microglia: 65 nCPM

Immune cell

  • neutrophil: 287 nTPM
  • basophil: 207 nTPM
  • eosinophil: 171 nTPM
  • intermediate monocyte: 170 nTPM
  • non-classical monocyte: 162 nTPM
  • total PBMC: 151 nTPM

Brain region

  • medulla oblongata: 16 nTPM
  • white matter: 16 nTPM
  • pons: 12 nTPM
  • cerebral cortex: 12 nTPM
  • cerebellum: 11 nTPM
  • spinal cord: 11 nTPM

DiseaseUniProt · ClinVar · IEDB · PubMed

Four sources answering four different questions about CYBC1.

Disease | AllUniProt

Conditions CYBC1 is implicated in, by any mechanism.

Disease | GeneticClinVar

5 pathogenic / likely-pathogenic of 189 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)
1.31
gnomAD pLI
0
DepMap mean gene effect
0.08
DepMap dependency class
none

Cancer expressionTCGA

Across TCGA tumor cohorts, this protein is over-expressed in roughly 6% 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

  • Cytochrome b-245 chaperone 1
  • Cytochrome b-245 chaperone 1 / Eros

KeywordsUniProt

InteractionsUniProt · HPA

Protein binding partners of CYBC1 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 CYBC1 as an antibody target. Whether an autoantibody or antibody against CYBC1 could matter depends on whether native CYBC1 is physically reachable, whether the body needs it intact, and whether it acts in a disease-relevant tissue.

CYBC1 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 CYBC1 as an autoantigen. Seroatlas presents hypothesis context only and does not manufacture a known-serology claim.

Canonical record: https://seroatlas.com/gene/CYBC1. 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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