Seroatlas · Human Serome Atlas

IGKV6-21

Immunoglobulin kappa variable 6-21

Also known as: A26, IGKV621, KV621_HUMAN

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

Protein identityUniProt · HPA

UniProt accession
A0A0C4DH24
Gene
IGKV6-21
Ensembl
ENSG00000211611
Chromosome
2
Canonical length
114 aa
Protein class
Immunoglobulin genes, Predicted secreted proteins
Secretome location
Immunoglobulin genes

OverviewNCBI Gene

Predicted to be involved in immune response. Predicted to be located in extracellular region and plasma membrane. Predicted to be part of immunoglobulin complex. [provided by Alliance of Genome Resources, Jul 2025]

Canonical amino-acid sequenceUniProt

114 residues, UniProt reviewed canonical sequence.

>A0A0C4DH24|IGKV6-21
     1  MLPSQLIGFL LLWVPASRGE IVLTQSPDFQ SVTPKEKVTI TCRASQSIGS SLHWYQQKPD
    61  QSPKLLIKYA SQSFSGVPSR FSGSGSGTDF TLTINSLEAE DAATYYCHQS SSLP

LocalizationUniProt · AlphaFold · HPA

Whether an antibody against IGKV6-21 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
Highest tissue expression
132 nTPM

Expression across tissuesHPA

Tissue

  • tonsil: 132 nTPM
  • colon: 91 nTPM
  • rectum: 74 nTPM
  • spleen: 61 nTPM
  • lymph node: 60 nTPM
  • salivary gland: 42 nTPM

Single-cell type

  • gastric chief cells: 2.2 nCPM
  • plasma cells: 1.5 nCPM
  • late spermatids: 1.1 nCPM
  • foveolar cells: 0.6 nCPM
  • salivary myoepithelial cells: 0.3 nCPM
  • early spermatids: 0.1 nCPM

Immune cell

  • memory B-cell: 29 nTPM
  • naive B-cell: 9.9 nTPM
  • total PBMC: 3 nTPM
  • basophil: 0 nTPM
  • classical monocyte: 0 nTPM
  • eosinophil: 0 nTPM

Brain region

  • medulla oblongata: 0.5 nTPM
  • spinal cord: 0.2 nTPM
  • cerebral cortex: 0.1 nTPM
  • choroid plexus: 0.1 nTPM
  • hippocampal formation: 0.1 nTPM
  • hypothalamus: 0.1 nTPM

OntologyGO

Biological processes

Cellular components

Protein domainsUniProt · Pfam · InterPro

KeywordsUniProt

Antibody and autoantibody relevanceSeroatlas analysis

Seroatlas reads IGKV6-21 as an antibody target. Whether an autoantibody or antibody against IGKV6-21 could matter depends on whether native IGKV6-21 is physically reachable, whether the body needs it intact, and whether it acts in a disease-relevant tissue.

IGKV6-21 is annotated at the cell surface, where native IGKV6-21 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 IGKV6-21 as an autoantigen. Seroatlas presents hypothesis context only and does not manufacture a known-serology claim.

Canonical record: https://seroatlas.com/gene/IGKV6-21. 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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