Seroatlas · Human Serome Atlas

ETFB

Electron transfer flavoprotein subunit beta

Also known as: ETFB_HUMAN

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

Protein identityUniProt · HPA

UniProt accession
P38117
Gene
ETFB
Ensembl
ENSG00000105379
Chromosome
19
Canonical length
255 aa
Protein class
Disease related genes, Human disease related genes, Metabolic proteins, Plasma proteins, Predicted intracellular proteins
Subcellular location
Mitochondria

OverviewNCBI Gene

This gene encodes electron-transfer-flavoprotein, beta polypeptide, which shuttles electrons between primary flavoprotein dehydrogenases involved in mitochondrial fatty acid and amino acid catabolism and the membrane-bound electron transfer flavoprotein ubiquinone oxidoreductase. The gene deficiencies have been implicated in type II glutaricaciduria. Alternatively spliced transcript variants have been found for this gene. [provided by RefSeq, Jul 2008]

Canonical amino-acid sequenceUniProt

255 residues, UniProt reviewed canonical sequence.

>P38117|ETFB
     1  MAELRVLVAV KRVIDYAVKI RVKPDRTGVV TDGVKHSMNP FCEIAVEEAV RLKEKKLVKE
    61  VIAVSCGPAQ CQETIRTALA MGADRGIHVE VPPAEAERLG PLQVARVLAK LAEKEKVDLV
   121  LLGKQAIDDD CNQTGQMTAG FLDWPQGTFA SQVTLEGDKL KVEREIDGGL ETLRLKLPAV
   181  VTADLRLNEP RYATLPNIMK AKKKKIEVIK PGDLGVDLTS KLSVISVEDP PQRTAGVKVE
   241  TTEDLVAKLK EIGRI

LocalizationUniProt · AlphaFold · HPA

Whether an antibody against ETFB 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
490 nTPM

Expression across tissuesHPA

Tissue

  • liver: 490 nTPM
  • heart muscle: 382 nTPM
  • skeletal muscle: 265 nTPM
  • tongue: 261 nTPM
  • choroid plexus: 232 nTPM
  • basal ganglia: 190 nTPM

Single-cell type

  • hepatocytes: 1,286 nCPM
  • enterocytes: 645 nCPM
  • late spermatids: 571 nCPM
  • esophageal apical cells: 557 nCPM
  • esophageal suprabasal cells: 494 nCPM
  • gastric progenitor cells: 447 nCPM

Immune cell

  • naive B-cell: 305 nTPM
  • memory B-cell: 283 nTPM
  • plasmacytoid DC: 266 nTPM
  • T-reg: 226 nTPM
  • myeloid DC: 226 nTPM
  • intermediate monocyte: 213 nTPM

Brain region

  • cerebellum: 117 nTPM
  • white matter: 117 nTPM
  • basal ganglia: 115 nTPM
  • thalamus: 114 nTPM
  • medulla oblongata: 107 nTPM
  • pons: 98 nTPM

DiseaseUniProt · ClinVar · IEDB · PubMed

Four sources answering four different questions about ETFB.

Disease | AllUniProt

Conditions ETFB is implicated in, by any mechanism.

Disease | GeneticClinVar

39 pathogenic / likely-pathogenic of 398 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)
0.83
gnomAD pLI
0.02
gnomAD missense Z
0.42
DepMap mean gene effect
-0.08
DepMap dependency class
selective

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

Biological processes

Molecular functions

Cellular components

Protein domainsUniProt · Pfam · InterPro

KeywordsUniProt

InteractionsUniProt · HPA

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

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

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