Seroatlas · Human Serome Atlas

FGF23

Fibroblast growth factor 23

Also known as: FGF23_HUMAN

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

Protein identityUniProt · HPA

UniProt accession
Q9GZV9
Gene
FGF23
Ensembl
ENSG00000118972
Chromosome
12
Canonical length
251 aa
Protein class
Cancer-related genes, Disease related genes, Human disease related genes, Plasma proteins, Potential drug targets, Predicted secreted proteins, RAS pathway related proteins, Transporters
Subcellular location
Nuclear bodies,Vesicles,Centrosome,Cytosol
Secretome location
Secreted to blood

OverviewNCBI Gene

This gene encodes a member of the fibroblast growth factor family of proteins, which possess broad mitogenic and cell survival activities and are involved in a variety of biological processes. The product of this gene regulates phosphate homeostasis and transport in the kidney. The full-length, functional protein may be deactivated via cleavage into N-terminal and C-terminal chains. Mutation of this cleavage site causes autosomal dominant hypophosphatemic rickets (ADHR). Mutations in this gene are also associated with hyperphosphatemic familial tumoral calcinosis (HFTC). [provided by RefSeq, Feb 2013]

Canonical amino-acid sequenceUniProt

251 residues, UniProt reviewed canonical sequence.

>Q9GZV9|FGF23
     1  MLGARLRLWV CALCSVCSMS VLRAYPNASP LLGSSWGGLI HLYTATARNS YHLQIHKNGH
    61  VDGAPHQTIY SALMIRSEDA GFVVITGVMS RRYLCMDFRG NIFGSHYFDP ENCRFQHQTL
   121  ENGYDVYHSP QYHFLVSLGR AKRAFLPGMN PPPYSQFLSR RNEIPLIHFN TPIPRRHTRS
   181  AEDDSERDPL NVLKPRARMT PAPASCSQEL PSAEDNSPMA SDPLGVVRGG RVNTHAGGTG
   241  PEGCRPFAKF I

LocalizationUniProt · AlphaFold · HPA

Whether an antibody against FGF23 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
Secreted
Secreted
Yes
Transmembrane segments
0
Mean surface accessibility (rSASA)
0.47
Highest tissue expression
5.4 nTPM

Expression across tissuesHPA

Tissue

  • heart muscle: 5.4 nTPM
  • liver: 4.7 nTPM
  • retina: 1.8 nTPM
  • epididymis: 1.1 nTPM
  • skeletal muscle: 1 nTPM
  • choroid plexus: 0.5 nTPM

Single-cell type

  • late primary spermatocytes: 6.5 nCPM
  • early spermatids: 5.1 nCPM
  • late spermatids: 2.8 nCPM
  • epicardial cells: 2.3 nCPM
  • cone photoreceptor cells: 2.1 nCPM
  • retinal horizontal cells: 2 nCPM

Immune cell

  • basophil: 9 nTPM
  • neutrophil: 4.6 nTPM
  • non-classical monocyte: 2.2 nTPM
  • NK-cell: 1.9 nTPM
  • eosinophil: 1.8 nTPM
  • plasmacytoid DC: 1.7 nTPM

Brain region

  • cerebral cortex: 105 nTPM
  • choroid plexus: 69 nTPM
  • midbrain: 28 nTPM
  • white matter: 12 nTPM
  • pons: 11 nTPM
  • amygdala: 4 nTPM

DiseaseUniProt · ClinVar · IEDB · PubMed

Four sources answering four different questions about FGF23.

Disease | AllUniProt

Conditions FGF23 is implicated in, by any mechanism.

Disease | GeneticClinVar

13 pathogenic / likely-pathogenic of 254 ClinVar records.

Conditions with pathogenic or likely-pathogenic variants.

ReferencesPubMed · IEDB

Publications for FGF23 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.

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)
1.28
gnomAD pLI
0.03
gnomAD missense Z
0.4
DepMap mean gene effect
0.12
DepMap dependency class
none

Cancer expressionTCGA

Across TCGA tumor cohorts, this protein is over-expressed in roughly 1% 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 FGF23 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 FGF23 as an antibody target. Whether an autoantibody or antibody against FGF23 could matter depends on whether native FGF23 is physically reachable, whether the body needs it intact, and whether it acts in a disease-relevant tissue.

FGF23 is annotated as secreted, so native FGF23 circulates and is directly accessible to antibodies. Secreted and cell-surface proteins are the autoantibody targets most likely to act like drugs, blocking or depleting the native protein.

Annotation status

The present source text does not explicitly label FGF23 as an autoantigen. Seroatlas presents hypothesis context only and does not manufacture a known-serology claim.

Canonical record: https://seroatlas.com/gene/FGF23. 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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