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DENND6B

Protein DENND6B

Also known as: AFI1B, DEN6B_HUMAN, FAM116B, MGC33692

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

Protein identityUniProt · HPA

UniProt accession
Q8NEG7
Gene
DENND6B
Ensembl
ENSG00000205593
Chromosome
22
Canonical length
585 aa
Protein class
Predicted intracellular proteins
Subcellular location
Plasma membrane

OverviewNCBI Gene

Enables guanyl-nucleotide exchange factor activity. Predicted to be located in cytosol. Predicted to be active in recycling endosome. [provided by Alliance of Genome Resources, Jul 2025]

Canonical amino-acid sequenceUniProt

585 residues, UniProt reviewed canonical sequence.

>Q8NEG7|DENND6B
     1  MDALLGTGPR RARGCLGAAG PTSSGRAART PAAPWARFSA WLECVCVVTF DLELGQALEL
    61  VYPNDFRLTD KEKSSICYLS FPDSHSGCLG DTQFSFRMRQ CGGQRSPWHA DDRHYNSRAP
   121  VALQREPAHY FGYVYFRQVK DSSVKRGYFQ KSLVLVSRLP FVRLFQALLS LIAPEYFDKL
   181  APCLEAVCSE IDQWPAPAPG QTLNLPVMGV VVQVRIPSRV DKSESSPPKQ FDQENLLPAP
   241  VVLASVHELD LFRCFRPVLT HMQTLWELML LGEPLLVLAP SPDVSSEMVL ALTSCLQPLR
   301  FCCDFRPYFT IHDSEFKEFT TRTQAPPNVV LGVTNPFFIK TLQHWPHILR VGEPKMSGDL
   361  PKQVKLKKPS RLKTLDTKPG LYTAYTAHLH RDKALLKRLL KGVQKKRPSD VQSALLRRHL
   421  LELTQSFIIP LEHYMASLMP LQKSITPWKT PPQIQPFSQD DFLRSLEHAG PQLTCILKGD
   481  WLGLYRRFFK SPHFDGWYRQ RHKEMALKLE ALHLEAICEA NIETWMKDKS EVEVVDLVLK
   541  LREKLVRAQG HQLPVKEATL QRAQLYIETV IGSLPKDLQA VLCPP

LocalizationUniProt · AlphaFold · HPA

Whether an antibody against DENND6B 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)
0.29
Highest tissue expression
25 nTPM

Expression across tissuesHPA

Tissue

  • cerebellum: 25 nTPM
  • cerebral cortex: 18 nTPM
  • basal ganglia: 14 nTPM
  • pituitary gland: 13 nTPM
  • fallopian tube: 13 nTPM
  • hypothalamus: 12 nTPM

Single-cell type

  • megakaryocytes: 192 nCPM
  • respiratory ciliated cells: 181 nCPM
  • late spermatids: 129 nCPM
  • ependymal cells: 115 nCPM
  • fallopian tube ciliated cells: 101 nCPM
  • epididymal efferent duct ciliated cells: 96 nCPM

Immune cell

  • non-classical monocyte: 1.3 nTPM
  • intermediate monocyte: 1 nTPM
  • classical monocyte: 0.8 nTPM
  • myeloid DC: 0.5 nTPM
  • plasmacytoid DC: 0.4 nTPM
  • NK-cell: 0.3 nTPM

Brain region

  • cerebral cortex: 24 nTPM
  • basal ganglia: 21 nTPM
  • hippocampal formation: 20 nTPM
  • amygdala: 19 nTPM
  • hypothalamus: 19 nTPM
  • pons: 19 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)
0.83
gnomAD pLI
0
gnomAD missense Z
0.86
DepMap mean gene effect
0.05
DepMap dependency class
none

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

Molecular functions

Cellular components

Protein domainsUniProt · Pfam · InterPro

KeywordsUniProt

Antibody and autoantibody relevanceSeroatlas analysis

Seroatlas reads DENND6B as an antibody target. Whether an autoantibody or antibody against DENND6B could matter depends on whether native DENND6B is physically reachable, whether the body needs it intact, and whether it acts in a disease-relevant tissue.

DENND6B 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 DENND6B as an autoantigen. Seroatlas presents hypothesis context only and does not manufacture a known-serology claim.

Canonical record: https://seroatlas.com/gene/DENND6B. 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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