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DEFB110

Beta-defensin 110

Also known as: DB110_HUMAN, DEFB-10, DEFB-11, DEFB111

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

Protein identityUniProt · HPA

UniProt accession
Q30KQ9
Gene
DEFB110
Ensembl
ENSG00000203970
Chromosome
6
Canonical length
67 aa
Protein class
Predicted secreted proteins
Secretome location
Secreted in male reproductive system

OverviewNCBI Gene

Defensins form a family of antimicrobial and cytotoxic peptides made by neutrophils. Defensins are short, processed peptide molecules that are classified by structure into three groups: alpha-defensins, beta-defensins and theta-defensins. All beta-defensin genes are densely clustered in four to five syntenic chromosomal regions. Two transcript variants encoding different isoforms have been found for this gene. [provided by RefSeq, Oct 2014]

Canonical amino-acid sequenceUniProt

67 residues, UniProt reviewed canonical sequence.

>Q30KQ9|DEFB110
     1  MKIQLFFFIL HFWVTILPAK KKYPEYGSLD LRRECRIGNG QCKNQCHENE IRIAYCIRPG
    61  THCCLQQ

LocalizationUniProt · AlphaFold · HPA

Whether an antibody against DEFB110 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
Secreted
Secreted
Yes
Transmembrane segments
0
Mean surface accessibility (rSASA)
0.48
Highest tissue expression
821 nTPM

Expression across tissuesHPA

Tissue

  • epididymis: 821 nTPM
  • seminal vesicle: 0.1 nTPM
  • adipose tissue: 0 nTPM
  • adrenal gland: 0 nTPM
  • amygdala: 0 nTPM
  • appendix: 0 nTPM

Single-cell type

  • epididymal principal cells: 495 nCPM
  • epididymal clear cells: 10 nCPM
  • epididymal basal cells: 6.5 nCPM
  • mast cells: 1.2 nCPM
  • epididymal efferent duct absorptive cells: 0.7 nCPM
  • t-cells: 0.6 nCPM

Immune cell

  • basophil: 0 nTPM
  • classical monocyte: 0 nTPM
  • eosinophil: 0 nTPM
  • gdT-cell: 0 nTPM
  • intermediate monocyte: 0 nTPM
  • MAIT T-cell: 0 nTPM

Brain region

  • cerebral cortex: 0.2 nTPM
  • pons: 0.2 nTPM
  • midbrain: 0.1 nTPM
  • amygdala: 0 nTPM
  • basal ganglia: 0 nTPM
  • cerebellum: 0 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)
1.92
gnomAD pLI
0.02
gnomAD missense Z
-0.85
DepMap mean gene effect
0.13
DepMap dependency class
none

Cancer expressionTCGA

Across TCGA tumor cohorts, this protein is over-expressed in roughly 1% 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 DEFB110 as an antibody target. Whether an autoantibody or antibody against DEFB110 could matter depends on whether native DEFB110 is physically reachable, whether the body needs it intact, and whether it acts in a disease-relevant tissue.

DEFB110 is annotated as secreted, so native DEFB110 circulates and is directly accessible to antibodies. Secreted and cell-surface proteins are the autoantibody targets most likely to act like drugs, blocking or depleting the native protein.

Annotation status

The present source text does not explicitly label DEFB110 as an autoantigen. Seroatlas presents hypothesis context only and does not manufacture a known-serology claim.

Canonical record: https://seroatlas.com/gene/DEFB110. 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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