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FAM43A

Protein FAM43A

Also known as: FA43A_HUMAN, FLJ90022

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

Protein identityUniProt · HPA

UniProt accession
Q8N2R8
Gene
FAM43A
Ensembl
ENSG00000185112
Chromosome
3
Canonical length
423 aa
Protein class
Predicted intracellular proteins
Subcellular location
Vesicles

OverviewNCBI Gene

No narrative summary is available for FAM43A in this catalog release; identity and structured annotations are shown without generated factual claims.

Canonical amino-acid sequenceUniProt

423 residues, UniProt reviewed canonical sequence.

>Q8N2R8|FAM43A
     1  MLPWKKHKFE LLAEAPPRQA SKPKGYAVSL HYSALSSLAR ACPEGALSRV GSMFRSKRKK
    61  LHITSEDPTY TVLYLGNATT IQARGDGCTD LAVGKIWSKS EAGRQGTKMK LTVSAQGIRM
   121  VHAEERALRR PGHLYLLHRV TYCVADARLP KVFAWVYRHE LKHKAVMLRC HAVLVSKPEK
   181  AQAMALLLYQ TSANALAEFK RLKRRDDARH QQQELVGAHT IPLVPLRKLL LHGPCCYKPP
   241  VERSRSAPKL GSITEDLLGE QLEQELQEEE EEEQPEGCPE EEENRAAEGD PAEEEAEAQR
   301  ALVVAMHFEC GDLLDTLENG RGEALGGGGG SLGPGAGPPP LLLGSASDMK AELSQLISDL
   361  GELSFGNDVR TLQADLRVTR LLSGDSTGSE SSIEGGGPDA TSATAGDSSR QADGASADEP
   421  HSG

LocalizationUniProt · AlphaFold · HPA

Whether an antibody against FAM43A 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)
0.5
Highest tissue expression
48 nTPM

Expression across tissuesHPA

Tissue

  • spleen: 48 nTPM
  • kidney: 29 nTPM
  • heart muscle: 26 nTPM
  • skin: 24 nTPM
  • vagina: 23 nTPM
  • adipose tissue: 23 nTPM

Single-cell type

  • syncytiotrophoblasts: 204 nCPM
  • extravillous trophoblasts: 128 nCPM
  • lymphatic endothelial cells: 122 nCPM
  • respiratory ionocytes: 102 nCPM
  • esophageal apical cells: 98 nCPM
  • vascular endothelial cells: 89 nCPM

Immune cell

  • plasmacytoid DC: 4.5 nTPM
  • naive B-cell: 2.5 nTPM
  • basophil: 2.2 nTPM
  • NK-cell: 1.6 nTPM
  • eosinophil: 1.4 nTPM
  • memory B-cell: 1.2 nTPM

Brain region

  • pons: 70 nTPM
  • medulla oblongata: 37 nTPM
  • cerebral cortex: 26 nTPM
  • hippocampal formation: 22 nTPM
  • midbrain: 17 nTPM
  • thalamus: 14 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)
0.67
gnomAD pLI
0.41
gnomAD missense Z
1.49
DepMap mean gene effect
0.02
DepMap dependency class
none

Cancer expressionTCGA

Across TCGA tumor cohorts, this protein is over-expressed in roughly 6% 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 FAM43A as an antibody target. Whether an autoantibody or antibody against FAM43A could matter depends on whether native FAM43A is physically reachable, whether the body needs it intact, and whether it acts in a disease-relevant tissue.

FAM43A 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 FAM43A as an autoantigen. Seroatlas presents hypothesis context only and does not manufacture a known-serology claim.

Canonical record: https://seroatlas.com/gene/FAM43A. 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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