Seroatlas · Human Serome Atlas

FCGR3B

Low affinity immunoglobulin gamma Fc region receptor III-B

Also known as: CD16, CD16b, FCG3, FCG3B_HUMAN, FcgammaRIIIb, FCGR3, FcRIIIb

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

Protein identityUniProt · HPA

UniProt accession
O75015
Gene
FCGR3B
Ensembl
ENSG00000162747
Chromosome
1
Canonical length
233 aa
Protein class
CD markers, FDA approved drug targets, Human disease related genes, Plasma proteins, Predicted intracellular proteins, Predicted membrane proteins, Predicted secreted proteins, Transporters
Secretome location
Secreted to blood

OverviewNCBI Gene

The protein encoded by this gene is a low affinity receptor for the Fc region of gamma immunoglobulins (IgG). The encoded protein acts as a monomer and can bind either monomeric or aggregated IgG. This gene may function to capture immune complexes in the peripheral circulation. Several transcript variants encoding different isoforms have been found for this gene. A highly-similar gene encoding a related protein is also found on chromosome 1. [provided by RefSeq, Aug 2012]

Canonical amino-acid sequenceUniProt

233 residues, UniProt reviewed canonical sequence.

>O75015|FCGR3B
     1  MWQLLLPTAL LLLVSAGMRT EDLPKAVVFL EPQWYSVLEK DSVTLKCQGA YSPEDNSTQW
    61  FHNENLISSQ ASSYFIDAAT VNDSGEYRCQ TNLSTLSDPV QLEVHIGWLL LQAPRWVFKE
   121  EDPIHLRCHS WKNTALHKVT YLQNGKDRKY FHHNSDFHIP KATLKDSGSY FCRGLVGSKN
   181  VSSETVNITI TQGLAVSTIS SFSPPGYQVS FCLVMVLLFA VDTGLYFSVK TNI

LocalizationUniProt · AlphaFold · HPA

Whether an antibody against FCGR3B 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
Cell surface
Secreted
No
Transmembrane segments
0
Mean surface accessibility (rSASA)
0.37
Highest tissue expression
78 nTPM

Expression across tissuesHPA

Tissue

  • spleen: 78 nTPM
  • appendix: 67 nTPM
  • bone marrow: 31 nTPM
  • lung: 22 nTPM
  • tongue: 21 nTPM
  • adipose tissue: 19 nTPM

Single-cell type

  • neutrophils: 41 nCPM
  • microglia: 1.9 nCPM
  • neutrophil progenitors: 1.1 nCPM
  • nk-cells: 0.5 nCPM
  • proximal tubule cells: 0.2 nCPM
  • renal collecting duct intercalated cells: 0.2 nCPM

Immune cell

  • neutrophil: 6,078 nTPM
  • non-classical monocyte: 17 nTPM
  • eosinophil: 9.8 nTPM
  • intermediate monocyte: 6.4 nTPM
  • total PBMC: 5.6 nTPM
  • gdT-cell: 2.3 nTPM

Brain region

  • cerebral cortex: 11 nTPM
  • pons: 4.2 nTPM
  • thalamus: 1.1 nTPM
  • basal ganglia: 0.9 nTPM
  • choroid plexus: 0.9 nTPM
  • medulla oblongata: 0.4 nTPM

DiseaseUniProt · ClinVar · IEDB · PubMed

Four sources answering four different questions about FCGR3B.

Disease | AutoantibodyPubMed

Conditions in which antibodies against FCGR3B are reported. Each links to that disease's full target list.

Showing 1 of 2 — disease pages carrying at least 10 antigens.

ReferencesPubMed · IEDB

Publications for FCGR3B from three distinct lines of evidence, kept separate because they answer different questions: whether antibodies are directed at the protein, whether a B-cell epitope has been mapped on it, and whether a T-cell epitope has. Each is labelled with its source.

Reference: AutoantibodyPubMed

20 publications

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Sources: PubMed — antigen-level antibody evidence from a custom retrieval. Records matching a controlled set of autoantibody terms (the MeSH descriptors Autoantibodies and Autoantigens, with title and abstract term variants) were obtained through NCBI E-utilities, and their titles and abstracts parsed for constructions that direct an antibody at a named protein rather than for co-occurrence. Captured names were resolved against UniProt nomenclature and each antigen adjudicated individually against the source text. Bibliographic records from PubMed and MeSH, U.S. National Library of Medicine; citation metrics from NIH iCite (Hutchins et al., PLoS Biology 2016). Titles link to PubMed; abstracts are not reproduced here. The NLM does not endorse this analysis.

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)
1.65
gnomAD pLI
0
gnomAD missense Z
-1.09
DepMap mean gene effect
0.18
DepMap dependency class
none

Cancer expressionTCGA

Across TCGA tumor cohorts, this protein is over-expressed in roughly 3% 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 FCGR3B 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 FCGR3B as an antibody target. Whether an autoantibody or antibody against FCGR3B could matter depends on whether native FCGR3B is physically reachable, whether the body needs it intact, and whether it acts in a disease-relevant tissue.

FCGR3B is annotated at the cell surface, where native FCGR3B is exposed to circulating antibodies and is a prime autoantibody target that could block, deplete, or overstimulate it.

Annotation status

The present source text does not explicitly label FCGR3B as an autoantigen. Seroatlas presents hypothesis context only and does not manufacture a known-serology claim.

Canonical record: https://seroatlas.com/gene/FCGR3B. 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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