Seroatlas · Human Serome Atlas

DNAJC27

DnaJ homolog subfamily C member 27

Also known as: DJC27_HUMAN, RabJS, RBJ

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

Protein identityUniProt · HPA

UniProt accession
Q9NZQ0
Gene
DNAJC27
Ensembl
ENSG00000115137
Chromosome
2
Canonical length
273 aa
Protein class
Predicted intracellular proteins
Subcellular location
Cytosol

OverviewNCBI Gene

Predicted to enable GTPase activity. Predicted to be involved in intracellular protein transport. Predicted to be located in cytoplasmic vesicle and nucleus. [provided by Alliance of Genome Resources, Jul 2025]

Canonical amino-acid sequenceUniProt

273 residues, UniProt reviewed canonical sequence.

>Q9NZQ0|DNAJC27
     1  MEANMPKRKE PGRSLRIKVI SMGNAEVGKS CIIKRYCEKR FVSKYLATIG IDYGVTKVHV
    61  RDREIKVNIF DMAGHPFFYE VRNEFYKDTQ GVILVYDVGQ KDSFDALDAW LAEMKQELGP
   121  HGNMENIIFV VCANKIDCTK HRCVDESEGR LWAESKGFLY FETSAQTGEG INEMFQTFYI
   181  SIVDLCENGG KRPTTNSSAS FTKEQADAIR RIRNSKDSWD MLGVKPGASR DEVNKAYRKL
   241  AVLLHPDKCV APGSEDAFKA VVNARTALLK NIK

LocalizationUniProt · AlphaFold · HPA

Whether an antibody against DNAJC27 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)
0.3
Highest tissue expression
21 nTPM

Expression across tissuesHPA

Tissue

  • testis: 21 nTPM
  • retina: 12 nTPM
  • ovary: 6.8 nTPM
  • tongue: 6.5 nTPM
  • cerebellum: 6.2 nTPM
  • midbrain: 6 nTPM

Single-cell type

  • granulosa cells: 128 nCPM
  • vascular smooth muscle cells: 110 nCPM
  • late primary spermatocytes: 107 nCPM
  • somatotrophs: 98 nCPM
  • schwann cells: 97 nCPM
  • ovarian stromal cells: 97 nCPM

Immune cell

  • NK-cell: 1.3 nTPM
  • eosinophil: 0.9 nTPM
  • MAIT T-cell: 0.5 nTPM
  • naive CD8 T-cell: 0.5 nTPM
  • memory B-cell: 0.4 nTPM
  • naive CD4 T-cell: 0.4 nTPM

Brain region

  • hypothalamus: 19 nTPM
  • pons: 19 nTPM
  • medulla oblongata: 17 nTPM
  • cerebellum: 16 nTPM
  • cerebral cortex: 16 nTPM
  • midbrain: 15 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)
0.89
gnomAD pLI
0
gnomAD missense Z
0.48
DepMap mean gene effect
0.09
DepMap dependency class
none

Cancer expressionTCGA

Across TCGA tumor cohorts, this protein is over-expressed in roughly 5% 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 DNAJC27 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 DNAJC27 as an antibody target. Whether an autoantibody or antibody against DNAJC27 could matter depends on whether native DNAJC27 is physically reachable, whether the body needs it intact, and whether it acts in a disease-relevant tissue.

DNAJC27 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 DNAJC27 as an autoantigen. Seroatlas presents hypothesis context only and does not manufacture a known-serology claim.

Canonical record: https://seroatlas.com/gene/DNAJC27. 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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