Seroatlas · Human Serome Atlas

LDHC

L-lactate dehydrogenase C chain

Also known as: CT32, LDHC_HUMAN

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

Protein identityUniProt · HPA

UniProt accession
P07864
Gene
LDHC
Ensembl
ENSG00000166796
Chromosome
11
Canonical length
332 aa
Protein class
Enzymes, Metabolic proteins, Predicted intracellular proteins
Subcellular location
Cytosol,Mid piece,Principal piece,End piece
Quaternary structure
Homotetramer

OverviewNCBI Gene

Lactate dehydrogenase C catalyzes the conversion of L-lactate and NAD to pyruvate and NADH in the final step of anaerobic glycolysis. LDHC is testis-specific and belongs to the lactate dehydrogenase family. Two transcript variants have been detected which differ in the 5' untranslated region. [provided by RefSeq, Jul 2008]

Canonical amino-acid sequenceUniProt

332 residues, UniProt reviewed canonical sequence.

>P07864|LDHC
     1  MSTVKEQLIE KLIEDDENSQ CKITIVGTGA VGMACAISIL LKDLADELAL VDVALDKLKG
    61  EMMDLQHGSL FFSTSKITSG KDYSVSANSR IVIVTAGARQ QEGETRLALV QRNVAIMKSI
   121  IPAIVHYSPD CKILVVSNPV DILTYIVWKI SGLPVTRVIG SGCNLDSARF RYLIGEKLGV
   181  HPTSCHGWII GEHGDSSVPL WSGVNVAGVA LKTLDPKLGT DSDKEHWKNI HKQVIQSAYE
   241  IIKLKGYTSW AIGLSVMDLV GSILKNLRRV HPVSTMVKGL YGIKEELFLS IPCVLGRNGV
   301  SDVVKINLNS EEEALFKKSA ETLWNIQKDL IF

LocalizationUniProt · AlphaFold · HPA

Whether an antibody against LDHC 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)
0.26
Highest tissue expression
248 nTPM

Expression across tissuesHPA

Tissue

  • testis: 248 nTPM
  • liver: 1.3 nTPM
  • pancreas: 1.2 nTPM
  • kidney: 0.7 nTPM
  • small intestine: 0.7 nTPM
  • skeletal muscle: 0.6 nTPM

Single-cell type

  • late primary spermatocytes: 4,061 nCPM
  • early spermatids: 1,060 nCPM
  • early primary spermatocytes: 373 nCPM
  • late spermatids: 115 nCPM
  • endometrial luminal cells: 47 nCPM
  • breast myoepithelial cells: 41 nCPM

Immune cell

  • neutrophil: 1.1 nTPM
  • naive CD4 T-cell: 1 nTPM
  • plasmacytoid DC: 0.9 nTPM
  • naive B-cell: 0.7 nTPM
  • naive CD8 T-cell: 0.7 nTPM
  • basophil: 0.6 nTPM

Brain region

  • cerebellum: 4.1 nTPM
  • cerebral cortex: 3.9 nTPM
  • hippocampal formation: 3.5 nTPM
  • basal ganglia: 3.3 nTPM
  • amygdala: 3.2 nTPM
  • choroid plexus: 3.1 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)
1.33
gnomAD pLI
0
gnomAD missense Z
0.17
DepMap mean gene effect
0.12
DepMap dependency class
none

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

Biological processes

Molecular functions

Cellular components

Protein domainsUniProt · Pfam · InterPro

KeywordsUniProt

InteractionsUniProt · HPA

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

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

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