Seroatlas · Human Serome Atlas

FAM9B

Protein FAM9B

Also known as: FAM9B_HUMAN, TEX39B

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

Protein identityUniProt · HPA

UniProt accession
Q8IZU0
Gene
FAM9B
Ensembl
ENSG00000177138
Chromosome
X
Canonical length
186 aa
Protein class
Plasma proteins, Predicted intracellular proteins
Subcellular location
Nucleoplasm

OverviewNCBI Gene

This gene is a member of a gene family which arose through duplication on the X chromosome. The encoded protein may be localized to the nucleus as the protein contains several nuclear localization signals, and has similarity to a synaptonemal complex protein. [provided by RefSeq, Aug 2011]

Canonical amino-acid sequenceUniProt

186 residues, UniProt reviewed canonical sequence.

>Q8IZU0|FAM9B
     1  MAAWGKKHAG KDPVRDECEE RNRFTETREE DVTDEHGERE PFAETDEHTG ANTKKPEDTA
    61  EDLTAKRKRM KMDKTCSKTK NKSKHALRKK QLKRQKRDYI HSLKLLNVLE EYITDEQKEE
   121  EEEEGEEEEL IRIFQEQQKK WQQYRSVRRE RLKEMKLLRD QFVKALEDFE DLCDRVFSDE
   181  DSELDN

LocalizationUniProt · AlphaFold · HPA

Whether an antibody against FAM9B 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)
0.56
Highest tissue expression
5.9 nTPM

Expression across tissuesHPA

Tissue

  • testis: 5.9 nTPM
  • liver: 3.6 nTPM
  • endometrium: 2 nTPM
  • epididymis: 1.3 nTPM
  • smooth muscle: 0.8 nTPM
  • seminal vesicle: 0.6 nTPM

Single-cell type

  • early primary spermatocytes: 168 nCPM
  • differentiating spermatogonia: 76 nCPM
  • oocytes: 69 nCPM
  • epididymal principal cells: 59 nCPM
  • somatotrophs: 36 nCPM
  • undifferentiated spermatogonia: 20 nCPM

Immune cell

  • neutrophil: 0.4 nTPM
  • basophil: 0 nTPM
  • classical monocyte: 0 nTPM
  • eosinophil: 0 nTPM
  • gdT-cell: 0 nTPM
  • intermediate monocyte: 0 nTPM

Brain region

  • white matter: 2.1 nTPM
  • hypothalamus: 2 nTPM
  • cerebellum: 1.9 nTPM
  • amygdala: 1.8 nTPM
  • cerebral cortex: 1.8 nTPM
  • medulla oblongata: 1.8 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)
1.69
gnomAD pLI
0
gnomAD missense Z
-0.63
DepMap mean gene effect
0.21
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 FAM9B 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 FAM9B as an antibody target. Whether an autoantibody or antibody against FAM9B could matter depends on whether native FAM9B is physically reachable, whether the body needs it intact, and whether it acts in a disease-relevant tissue.

FAM9B 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 FAM9B as an autoantigen. Seroatlas presents hypothesis context only and does not manufacture a known-serology claim.

Canonical record: https://seroatlas.com/gene/FAM9B. 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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