Seroatlas · Human Serome Atlas

H2BC18

Histone H2B type 2-F

Also known as: H2B2F_HUMAN, HIST2H2BF

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

Protein identityUniProt · HPA

UniProt accession
Q5QNW6
Gene
H2BC18
Ensembl
ENSG00000203814
Chromosome
1
Canonical length
126 aa
Protein class
Predicted intracellular proteins
Subcellular location
Nucleoplasm,Cytosol

OverviewNCBI Gene

Histones are basic nuclear proteins that are responsible for the nucleosome structure of the chromosomal fiber in eukaryotes. This structure consists of approximately 146 bp of DNA wrapped around a nucleosome, an octamer composed of pairs of each of the four core histones (H2A, H2B, H3, and H4). The chromatin fiber is further compacted through the interaction of a linker histone, H1, with the DNA between the nucleosomes to form higher order chromatin structures. This gene encodes a replication-dependent histone that is a member of the histone H2B family and is found in a histone cluster on chromosome 1. [provided by RefSeq, Aug 2015]

Canonical amino-acid sequenceUniProt

126 residues, UniProt reviewed canonical sequence.

>Q5QNW6|H2BC18
     1  MPDPAKSAPA PKKGSKKAVT KVQKKDGKKR KRSRKESYSV YVYKVLKQVH PDTGISSKAM
    61  GIMNSFVNDI FERIAGEASR LAHYNKRSTI TSREIQTAVR LLLPGELAKH AVSEGTKAVT
   121  KYTSSK

LocalizationUniProt · AlphaFold · HPA

Whether an antibody against H2BC18 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)
0.52
Highest tissue expression
36 nTPM

Expression across tissuesHPA

Tissue

  • cervix: 36 nTPM
  • vagina: 35 nTPM
  • ovary: 33 nTPM
  • lung: 30 nTPM
  • prostate: 26 nTPM
  • skin: 18 nTPM

Single-cell type

  • microglia: 89 nCPM
  • prostatic club cells: 82 nCPM
  • basal prostatic cells: 77 nCPM
  • prostatic hillock cells: 64 nCPM
  • tuft cells: 58 nCPM
  • epididymal principal cells: 54 nCPM

Immune cell

  • neutrophil: 45 nTPM
  • naive B-cell: 5.5 nTPM
  • memory CD4 T-cell: 2.7 nTPM
  • classical monocyte: 2.5 nTPM
  • gdT-cell: 2.4 nTPM
  • memory B-cell: 2.1 nTPM

Brain region

  • cerebellum: 130 nTPM
  • choroid plexus: 128 nTPM
  • midbrain: 103 nTPM
  • hypothalamus: 103 nTPM
  • white matter: 97 nTPM
  • medulla oblongata: 94 nTPM

DiseaseUniProt · ClinVar · IEDB · PubMed

Four sources answering four different questions about H2BC18.

Disease | ImmuneIEDB

Conditions an epitope on H2BC18 was assayed in.

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)
1.9
gnomAD pLI
0
DepMap mean gene effect
-0.27
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

Molecular functions

Cellular components

Protein domainsUniProt · Pfam · InterPro

KeywordsUniProt

Antibody and autoantibody relevanceSeroatlas analysis

Seroatlas reads H2BC18 as an antibody target. Whether an autoantibody or antibody against H2BC18 could matter depends on whether native H2BC18 is physically reachable, whether the body needs it intact, and whether it acts in a disease-relevant tissue.

H2BC18 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 H2BC18 as an autoantigen. Seroatlas presents hypothesis context only and does not manufacture a known-serology claim.

Canonical record: https://seroatlas.com/gene/H2BC18. 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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