Seroatlas · Human Serome Atlas

FNDC4

Fibronectin type III domain-containing protein 4

Also known as: FLJ22362, FNDC4_HUMAN, FRCP1

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

Protein identityUniProt · HPA

UniProt accession
Q9H6D8
Gene
FNDC4
Ensembl
ENSG00000115226
Chromosome
2
Canonical length
234 aa
Protein class
Predicted membrane proteins
Subcellular location
Nucleoplasm,Aggresome,Cytosol
Secretome location
Intracellular and membrane

OverviewNCBI Gene

Involved in response to transforming growth factor beta. Predicted to be located in endoplasmic reticulum; extracellular space; and plasma membrane. [provided by Alliance of Genome Resources, Jul 2025]

Canonical amino-acid sequenceUniProt

234 residues, UniProt reviewed canonical sequence.

>Q9H6D8|FNDC4
     1  MPSGCHSSPP SGLRGDMASL VPLSPYLSPT VLLLVSCDLG FVRADRPPSP VNVTVTHLRA
    61  NSATVSWDVP EGNIVIGYSI SQQRQNGPGQ RVIREVNTTT RACALWGLAE DSDYTVQVRS
   121  IGLRGESPPG PRVHFRTLKG SDRLPSNSSS PGDITVEGLD GERPLQTGEV VIIVVVLLMW
   181  AAVIGLFCRQ YDIIKDNDSN NNPKEKGKGP EQSPQGRPVG TRQKKSPSIN TIDV

LocalizationUniProt · AlphaFold · HPA

Whether an antibody against FNDC4 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
1
Mean surface accessibility (rSASA)
0.51
Highest tissue expression
126 nTPM

Expression across tissuesHPA

Tissue

  • liver: 126 nTPM
  • adrenal gland: 125 nTPM
  • cerebral cortex: 67 nTPM
  • hippocampal formation: 56 nTPM
  • basal ganglia: 50 nTPM
  • amygdala: 48 nTPM

Single-cell type

  • late spermatids: 1,057 nCPM
  • esophageal apical cells: 417 nCPM
  • early spermatids: 282 nCPM
  • hepatocytes: 143 nCPM
  • ovarian stromal cells: 72 nCPM
  • late primary spermatocytes: 71 nCPM

Immune cell

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

Brain region

  • cerebral cortex: 72 nTPM
  • medulla oblongata: 64 nTPM
  • pons: 62 nTPM
  • cerebellum: 54 nTPM
  • thalamus: 54 nTPM
  • hippocampal formation: 52 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)
0.42
gnomAD pLI
0.88
gnomAD missense Z
1.51
DepMap mean gene effect
-0.01
DepMap dependency class
selective

Cancer expressionTCGA

Across TCGA tumor cohorts, this protein is over-expressed in roughly 4% 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

Antibody and autoantibody relevanceSeroatlas analysis

Seroatlas reads FNDC4 as an antibody target. Whether an autoantibody or antibody against FNDC4 could matter depends on whether native FNDC4 is physically reachable, whether the body needs it intact, and whether it acts in a disease-relevant tissue.

FNDC4 is annotated as secreted, so native FNDC4 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 FNDC4 as an autoantigen. Seroatlas presents hypothesis context only and does not manufacture a known-serology claim.

Canonical record: https://seroatlas.com/gene/FNDC4. 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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