Seroatlas · Human Serome Atlas

FBXO21

F-box only protein 21

Also known as: FBX21, FBX21_HUMAN, KIAA0875

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

Protein identityUniProt · HPA

UniProt accession
O94952
Gene
FBXO21
Ensembl
ENSG00000135108
Chromosome
12
Canonical length
628 aa
Protein class
Predicted intracellular proteins
Subcellular location
Nucleoplasm,Mitochondria

OverviewNCBI Gene

This gene encodes a member of the F-box protein family which is characterized by an approximately 40 amino acid motif, the F-box. The F-box proteins constitute one of the four subunits of ubiquitin protein ligase complex called SCFs (SKP1-cullin-F-box), which function in phosphorylation-dependent ubiquitination. The F-box proteins are divided into 3 classes: Fbws containing WD-40 domains, Fbls containing leucine-rich repeats, and Fbxs containing either different protein-protein interaction modules or no recognizable motifs. The protein encoded by this gene belongs to the Fbxs class. Alternative splicing of this gene generates 2 transcript variants. [provided by RefSeq, Jul 2008]

Canonical amino-acid sequenceUniProt

628 residues, UniProt reviewed canonical sequence.

>O94952|FBXO21
     1  MAAAAVDSAM EVVPALAEEA APEVAGLSCL VNLPGEVLEY ILCCGSLTAA DIGRVSSTCR
    61  RLRELCQSSG KVWKEQFRVR WPSLMKHYSP TDYVNWLEEY KVRQKAGLEA RKIVASFSKR
   121  FFSEHVPCNG FSDIENLEGP EIFFEDELVC ILNMEGRKAL TWKYYAKKIL YYLRQQKILN
   181  NLKAFLQQPD DYESYLEGAV YIDQYCNPLS DISLKDIQAQ IDSIVELVCK TLRGINSRHP
   241  SLAFKAGESS MIMEIELQSQ VLDAMNYVLY DQLKFKGNRM DYYNALNLYM HQVLIRRTGI
   301  PISMSLLYLT IARQLGVPLE PVNFPSHFLL RWCQGAEGAT LDIFDYIYID AFGKGKQLTV
   361  KECEYLIGQH VTAALYGVVN VKKVLQRMVG NLLSLGKREG IDQSYQLLRD SLDLYLAMYP
   421  DQVQLLLLQA RLYFHLGIWP EKSFCLVLKV LDILQHIQTL DPGQHGAVGY LVQHTLEHIE
   481  RKKEEVGVEV KLRSDEKHRD VCYSIGLIMK HKRYGYNCVI YGWDPTCMMG HEWIRNMNVH
   541  SLPHGHHQPF YNVLVEDGSC RYAAQENLEY NVEPQEISHP DVGRYFSEFT GTHYIPNAEL
   601  EIRYPEDLEF VYETVQNIYS AKKENIDE

LocalizationUniProt · AlphaFold · HPA

Whether an antibody against FBXO21 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)
0.28
Highest tissue expression
108 nTPM

Expression across tissuesHPA

Tissue

  • fallopian tube: 108 nTPM
  • epididymis: 79 nTPM
  • kidney: 44 nTPM
  • ovary: 39 nTPM
  • testis: 35 nTPM
  • adrenal gland: 33 nTPM

Single-cell type

  • podocytes: 495 nCPM
  • fallopian secretory cells: 488 nCPM
  • epididymal principal cells: 470 nCPM
  • pituicytes/fscs: 335 nCPM
  • sertoli cells: 330 nCPM
  • fallopian tube ciliated cells: 303 nCPM

Immune cell

  • naive B-cell: 14 nTPM
  • T-reg: 14 nTPM
  • naive CD4 T-cell: 14 nTPM
  • non-classical monocyte: 13 nTPM
  • naive CD8 T-cell: 12 nTPM
  • MAIT T-cell: 12 nTPM

Brain region

  • hypothalamus: 68 nTPM
  • hippocampal formation: 63 nTPM
  • choroid plexus: 60 nTPM
  • cerebral cortex: 58 nTPM
  • white matter: 55 nTPM
  • basal ganglia: 53 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)
0.31
gnomAD pLI
0.98
gnomAD missense Z
2.72
DepMap mean gene effect
-0.06
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).

OntologyGO

Biological processes

Molecular functions

Cellular components

Protein domainsUniProt · Pfam · InterPro

KeywordsUniProt

InteractionsUniProt · HPA

Protein binding partners of FBXO21 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 FBXO21 as an antibody target. Whether an autoantibody or antibody against FBXO21 could matter depends on whether native FBXO21 is physically reachable, whether the body needs it intact, and whether it acts in a disease-relevant tissue.

FBXO21 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 FBXO21 as an autoantigen. Seroatlas presents hypothesis context only and does not manufacture a known-serology claim.

Canonical record: https://seroatlas.com/gene/FBXO21. 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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