Seroatlas · Human Serome Atlas

FAM222A

Protein FAM222A

Also known as: C12orf34, F222A_HUMAN, FLJ14721

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

Protein identityUniProt · HPA

UniProt accession
Q5U5X8
Gene
FAM222A
Ensembl
ENSG00000139438
Chromosome
12
Canonical length
452 aa
Protein class
Predicted intracellular proteins
Subcellular location
Golgi apparatus,Cell Junctions,Midbody ring

OverviewNCBI Gene

No narrative summary is available for FAM222A in this catalog release; identity and structured annotations are shown without generated factual claims.

Canonical amino-acid sequenceUniProt

452 residues, UniProt reviewed canonical sequence.

>Q5U5X8|FAM222A
     1  MLACLQRTQN APGQHLACPS KSLELRKCEA VASAMHSSRY PSPAELDAYA EKVANSPLSI
    61  KIFPTNIRVP QHKHLSRTVN GYDTSGQRYS PYPQHTAGYQ GLLAIVKAAV SSSSTAAPAG
   121  PAKSVLKSAE GKRTKLSPAA VQVGIAPYPV PSTLGPLAYP KPPEAPAPPP GLPAAATAAS
   181  VIPLPGRGLP LPPSNLPSIH SLLYQLNQQC QAPGAAPPAC QGMAIPHPSP AKHGPVPSFP
   241  SMAYSAAAGL PDCRKGTELG QGATQALTLA GAAKPAGYAD SGLDYLLWPQ KPPPPPPQPL
   301  RAYSGSTVAS KSPEACGGRA YERASGSPLN CGVGLPTSFT VGQYFAAPWN SVLVTPTSDC
   361  YNPAAAVVVT ELGPGAAREL AGPPADALSG LPSKSVCNTS VLSSSLQSLE YLINDIRPPC
   421  IKEQMLGKGY ETVAVPRLLD HQHAHIRLPV YR

LocalizationUniProt · AlphaFold · HPA

Whether an antibody against FAM222A 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)
0.72
Highest tissue expression
50 nTPM

Expression across tissuesHPA

Tissue

  • spinal cord: 50 nTPM
  • midbrain: 27 nTPM
  • testis: 23 nTPM
  • pituitary gland: 22 nTPM
  • basal ganglia: 21 nTPM
  • retina: 21 nTPM

Single-cell type

  • rod photoreceptor cells: 186 nCPM
  • early spermatids: 172 nCPM
  • retinal horizontal cells: 140 nCPM
  • late spermatids: 118 nCPM
  • oligodendrocytes: 107 nCPM
  • cone photoreceptor cells: 89 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

  • white matter: 126 nTPM
  • thalamus: 95 nTPM
  • basal ganglia: 87 nTPM
  • midbrain: 84 nTPM
  • medulla oblongata: 81 nTPM
  • cerebral cortex: 74 nTPM

DiseaseUniProt · ClinVar · IEDB · PubMed

Four sources answering four different questions about FAM222A.

Disease | GeneticClinVar

1 pathogenic / likely-pathogenic of 112 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)
0.45
gnomAD pLI
0.85
gnomAD missense Z
1.12
DepMap mean gene effect
0
DepMap dependency class
selective

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).

Protein domainsUniProt · Pfam · InterPro

Antibody and autoantibody relevanceSeroatlas analysis

Seroatlas reads FAM222A as an antibody target. Whether an autoantibody or antibody against FAM222A could matter depends on whether native FAM222A is physically reachable, whether the body needs it intact, and whether it acts in a disease-relevant tissue.

FAM222A 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 FAM222A as an autoantigen. Seroatlas presents hypothesis context only and does not manufacture a known-serology claim.

Canonical record: https://seroatlas.com/gene/FAM222A. 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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