Seroatlas · Human Serome Atlas

DDIT3

DNA damage-inducible transcript 3 protein

Also known as: CHOP, CHOP10, DDIT3_HUMAN, GADD153

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

Protein identityUniProt · HPA

UniProt accession
P35638
Gene
DDIT3
Ensembl
ENSG00000175197
Chromosome
12
Canonical length
169 aa
Protein class
Cancer-related genes, Disease related genes, Human disease related genes, Predicted intracellular proteins, Transcription factors
Subcellular location
Nucleoplasm

OverviewNCBI Gene

This gene encodes a member of the CCAAT/enhancer-binding protein (C/EBP) family of transcription factors. The protein functions as a dominant-negative inhibitor by forming heterodimers with other C/EBP members, such as C/EBP and LAP (liver activator protein), and preventing their DNA binding activity. The protein is implicated in adipogenesis and erythropoiesis, is activated by endoplasmic reticulum stress, and promotes apoptosis. Fusion of this gene and FUS on chromosome 16 or EWSR1 on chromosome 22 induced by translocation generates chimeric proteins in myxoid liposarcomas or Ewing sarcoma. Multiple alternatively spliced transcript variants encoding two isoforms with different length have been identified. [provided by RefSeq, Aug 2010]

Canonical amino-acid sequenceUniProt

169 residues, UniProt reviewed canonical sequence.

>P35638|DDIT3
     1  MAAESLPFSF GTLSSWELEA WYEDLQEVLS SDENGGTYVS PPGNEEEESK IFTTLDPASL
    61  AWLTEEEPEP AEVTSTSQSP HSPDSSQSSL AQEEEEEDQG RTRKRKQSGH SPARAGKQRM
   121  KEKEQENERK VAQLAEENER LKQEIERLTR EVEATRRALI DRMVNLHQA

LocalizationUniProt · AlphaFold · HPA

Whether an antibody against DDIT3 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)
0.61
Highest tissue expression
186 nTPM

Expression across tissuesHPA

Tissue

  • bone marrow: 186 nTPM
  • thyroid gland: 171 nTPM
  • choroid plexus: 168 nTPM
  • retina: 114 nTPM
  • kidney: 112 nTPM
  • epididymis: 103 nTPM

Single-cell type

  • epididymal principal cells: 3,123 nCPM
  • epididymal basal cells: 613 nCPM
  • epididymal efferent duct ciliated cells: 406 nCPM
  • epididymal efferent duct absorptive cells: 338 nCPM
  • epididymal clear cells: 223 nCPM
  • goblet cells: 206 nCPM

Immune cell

  • neutrophil: 171 nTPM
  • basophil: 122 nTPM
  • eosinophil: 49 nTPM
  • memory B-cell: 48 nTPM
  • naive B-cell: 45 nTPM
  • NK-cell: 36 nTPM

Brain region

  • white matter: 118 nTPM
  • thalamus: 73 nTPM
  • hypothalamus: 57 nTPM
  • midbrain: 56 nTPM
  • pons: 53 nTPM
  • cerebellum: 53 nTPM

DiseaseUniProt · ClinVar · IEDB · PubMed

Four sources answering four different questions about DDIT3.

Disease | AllUniProt

Conditions DDIT3 is implicated in, by any mechanism.

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)
0.68
gnomAD pLI
0.59
gnomAD missense Z
0.1
DepMap mean gene effect
-0.16
DepMap dependency class
selective

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

Molecular functions

Cellular components

Protein domainsUniProt · Pfam · InterPro

KeywordsUniProt

InteractionsUniProt · HPA

Protein binding partners of DDIT3 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 DDIT3 as an antibody target. Whether an autoantibody or antibody against DDIT3 could matter depends on whether native DDIT3 is physically reachable, whether the body needs it intact, and whether it acts in a disease-relevant tissue.

DDIT3 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 DDIT3 as an autoantigen. Seroatlas presents hypothesis context only and does not manufacture a known-serology claim.

Canonical record: https://seroatlas.com/gene/DDIT3. 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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