Seroatlas · Human Serome Atlas

FAM221A

Protein FAM221A

Also known as: C7orf46, DKFZp686F0810, F221A_HUMAN, FLJ45875, MGC72075

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

Protein identityUniProt · HPA

UniProt accession
A4D161
Gene
FAM221A
Ensembl
ENSG00000188732
Chromosome
7
Canonical length
298 aa
Protein class
Predicted intracellular proteins
Subcellular location
Cytosol

OverviewNCBI Gene

No narrative summary is available for FAM221A in this catalog release; identity and structured annotations are shown without generated factual claims.

Canonical amino-acid sequenceUniProt

298 residues, UniProt reviewed canonical sequence.

>A4D161|FAM221A
     1  MERLTLPLGG AAAVDEYLEY RRIVGEDDGG KLFTPEEYEE YKRKVLPLRL QNRLFVSWRS
    61  PTGMDCKLVG PETLCFCTHR YKQHKTDLEA IPQQCPIDLP CQVTGCQCRA YLYVPLNGSQ
   121  PIRCRCKHFA DQHSAAPGFT CNTCSKCSGF HSCFTCACGQ PAYAHDTVVE TKQERLAQEK
   181  PVGQDIPYAA MGGLTGFSSL AEGYMRLDDS GIGVPSVEFL ESPITAVDSP FLKAFQASSS
   241  SSPETLTDVG TSSQVSSLRR PEEDDMAFFE RRYQERMKME KAAKWKGKAP LPSATKPS

LocalizationUniProt · AlphaFold · HPA

Whether an antibody against FAM221A 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
Unknown
Secreted
No
Transmembrane segments
0
Mean surface accessibility (rSASA)
0.39
Highest tissue expression
30 nTPM

Expression across tissuesHPA

Tissue

  • spinal cord: 30 nTPM
  • pancreas: 19 nTPM
  • midbrain: 19 nTPM
  • testis: 18 nTPM
  • hippocampal formation: 17 nTPM
  • hypothalamus: 16 nTPM

Single-cell type

  • retinal pigment epithelial cells: 252 nCPM
  • sertoli cells: 104 nCPM
  • oligodendrocytes: 98 nCPM
  • esophageal apical cells: 89 nCPM
  • choroid plexus epithelial cells: 58 nCPM
  • gastric chief cells: 57 nCPM

Immune cell

  • T-reg: 12 nTPM
  • MAIT T-cell: 11 nTPM
  • naive CD4 T-cell: 9.8 nTPM
  • memory CD4 T-cell: 8.6 nTPM
  • NK-cell: 7.8 nTPM
  • naive B-cell: 6.9 nTPM

Brain region

  • white matter: 24 nTPM
  • cerebellum: 14 nTPM
  • pons: 13 nTPM
  • medulla oblongata: 13 nTPM
  • basal ganglia: 11 nTPM
  • spinal cord: 10 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)
1.66
gnomAD pLI
0
gnomAD missense Z
0.34
DepMap mean gene effect
0.13
DepMap dependency class
none

Cancer expressionTCGA

Across TCGA tumor cohorts, this protein is over-expressed in roughly 7% of surveyed tumor types (aggregate summary; per-cohort expression, alteration, and survival load in the interactive view).

Protein domainsUniProt · Pfam · InterPro

Antibody and autoantibody relevanceSeroatlas analysis

Seroatlas reads FAM221A as an antibody target. Whether an autoantibody or antibody against FAM221A could matter depends on whether native FAM221A is physically reachable, whether the body needs it intact, and whether it acts in a disease-relevant tissue.

FAM221A 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 FAM221A as an autoantigen. Seroatlas presents hypothesis context only and does not manufacture a known-serology claim.

Canonical record: https://seroatlas.com/gene/FAM221A. 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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