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FAM9A

Protein FAM9A

Also known as: FAM9A_HUMAN, TEX39A

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

Protein identityUniProt · HPA

UniProt accession
Q8IZU1
Gene
FAM9A
Ensembl
ENSG00000183304
Chromosome
X
Canonical length
332 aa
Protein class
Predicted intracellular proteins
Subcellular location
Mid piece

OverviewNCBI Gene

This gene is a member of a gene family which arose through duplication on the X chromosome. The encoded protein may be a nuclear protein that is localized to the nucleolus, and has some similarity to a synaptonemal complex protein. Multiple alternatively spliced variants, encoding the same protein, have been identified. [provided by RefSeq, Aug 2011]

Canonical amino-acid sequenceUniProt

332 residues, UniProt reviewed canonical sequence.

>Q8IZU1|FAM9A
     1  MEPVGRKRSR KAAKAQLEAQ VTAAQGATKE GSGIASNFPG QPTMEPVGRK RSRKAAKAQL
    61  EAQVRAAPAK KHTGKDPVRD ECEERNPFTE TREEDVTDEH GEREPFAEKD EHTGIHTMKL
   121  EHIAADIKKG LAAKREMIKI DKAAYRKTKN TIERALKKKQ LKRQKRDYRH TRKLLNVLKE
   181  YIAEKQKDDE AEEAEAAAAA AEAAAAAEAA AAAAEVIVVE DEEEEEKEEE EEKEEEEEEG
   241  EEEGGGEEGE EGGGGGEGEE TEEEEEEEEE EEEEEQIKAF QEKQKRWQQP TGVRSWRLRE
   301  MKPLLEQLLK AAKDTKDNYC IISSSEESEL DN

LocalizationUniProt · AlphaFold · HPA

Whether an antibody against FAM9A 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)
0.59
Highest tissue expression
4.1 nTPM

Expression across tissuesHPA

Tissue

  • testis: 4.1 nTPM
  • retina: 0.8 nTPM
  • liver: 0.3 nTPM
  • heart muscle: 0.2 nTPM
  • adrenal gland: 0.1 nTPM
  • cerebral cortex: 0.1 nTPM

Single-cell type

  • early primary spermatocytes: 71 nCPM
  • differentiating spermatogonia: 31 nCPM
  • undifferentiated spermatogonia: 12 nCPM
  • late spermatids: 1 nCPM
  • late primary spermatocytes: 0.6 nCPM
  • lymphatic endothelial cells: 0.3 nCPM

Immune cell

  • eosinophil: 0.1 nTPM
  • basophil: 0 nTPM
  • classical monocyte: 0 nTPM
  • gdT-cell: 0 nTPM
  • intermediate monocyte: 0 nTPM
  • MAIT T-cell: 0 nTPM

Brain region

  • cerebral cortex: 2.6 nTPM
  • pons: 2.3 nTPM
  • midbrain: 2.2 nTPM
  • amygdala: 2.1 nTPM
  • cerebellum: 2 nTPM
  • medulla oblongata: 1.9 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)
1.91
gnomAD pLI
0
gnomAD missense Z
-0.75
DepMap mean gene effect
0.05
DepMap dependency class
selective

Cancer expressionTCGA

Across TCGA tumor cohorts, this protein is over-expressed in roughly 2% of surveyed tumor types (aggregate summary; per-cohort expression, alteration, and survival load in the interactive view).

OntologyGO

Biological processes

Cellular components

Protein domainsUniProt · Pfam · InterPro

KeywordsUniProt

InteractionsUniProt · HPA

Protein binding partners of FAM9A 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 FAM9A as an antibody target. Whether an autoantibody or antibody against FAM9A could matter depends on whether native FAM9A is physically reachable, whether the body needs it intact, and whether it acts in a disease-relevant tissue.

FAM9A 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 FAM9A as an autoantigen. Seroatlas presents hypothesis context only and does not manufacture a known-serology claim.

Canonical record: https://seroatlas.com/gene/FAM9A. 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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