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LHFPL6

LHFPL tetraspan subfamily member 6 protein

Also known as: LHFP, LHPL6_HUMAN, MGC22429

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

Protein identityUniProt · HPA

UniProt accession
Q9Y693
Gene
LHFPL6
Ensembl
ENSG00000183722
Chromosome
13
Canonical length
200 aa
Protein class
Disease related genes, Potential drug targets, Predicted membrane proteins, Transporters
Subcellular location
Nucleoli

OverviewNCBI Gene

This gene is a member of the lipoma HMGIC fusion partner (LHFP) gene family, which is a subset of the superfamily of tetraspan transmembrane protein encoding genes. This gene is fused to a high-mobility group gene in a translocation-associated lipoma. Mutations in another LHFP-like gene result in deafness in humans and mice. Alternatively spliced transcript variants have been found; however, their full-length nature is not known. [provided by RefSeq, Jul 2008]

Canonical amino-acid sequenceUniProt

200 residues, UniProt reviewed canonical sequence.

>Q9Y693|LHFPL6
     1  MASSLTCTGV IWALLSFLCA ATSCVGFFMP YWLWGSQLGK PVSFGTFRRC SYPVHDESRQ
    61  MMVMVEECGR YASFQGIPSA EWRICTIVTG LGCGLLLLVA LTALMGCCVS DLISRTVGRV
   121  AGGIQFLGGL LIGAGCALYP LGWDSEEVRQ TCGYTSGQFD LGKCEIGWAY YCTGAGATAA
   181  MLLCTWLACF SGKKQKHYPY

LocalizationUniProt · AlphaFold · HPA

Whether an antibody against LHFPL6 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
Unknown
Secreted
No
Transmembrane segments
3
Mean surface accessibility (rSASA)
0.27
Highest tissue expression
143 nTPM

Expression across tissuesHPA

Tissue

  • blood vessel: 143 nTPM
  • adipose tissue: 134 nTPM
  • placenta: 127 nTPM
  • breast: 122 nTPM
  • heart muscle: 96 nTPM
  • ovary: 92 nTPM

Single-cell type

  • pericytes: 1,138 nCPM
  • retinal horizontal cells: 948 nCPM
  • fibro-adipogenic progenitors: 934 nCPM
  • fibroblasts: 681 nCPM
  • pituicytes/fscs: 644 nCPM
  • choroid plexus epithelial cells: 627 nCPM

Immune cell

  • myeloid DC: 6.2 nTPM
  • plasmacytoid DC: 2.1 nTPM
  • intermediate monocyte: 0.4 nTPM
  • classical monocyte: 0.3 nTPM
  • total PBMC: 0.3 nTPM
  • naive B-cell: 0.1 nTPM

Brain region

  • thalamus: 84 nTPM
  • cerebellum: 69 nTPM
  • midbrain: 68 nTPM
  • hypothalamus: 67 nTPM
  • choroid plexus: 67 nTPM
  • medulla oblongata: 63 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)
0.6
gnomAD pLI
0.67
DepMap mean gene effect
0.11
DepMap dependency class
selective

Cancer expressionTCGA

Across TCGA tumor cohorts, this protein is over-expressed in roughly 3% of surveyed tumor types (aggregate summary; per-cohort expression, alteration, and survival load in the interactive view).

OntologyGO

Cellular components

Protein domainsUniProt · Pfam · InterPro

KeywordsUniProt

Antibody and autoantibody relevanceSeroatlas analysis

Seroatlas reads LHFPL6 as an antibody target. Whether an autoantibody or antibody against LHFPL6 could matter depends on whether native LHFPL6 is physically reachable, whether the body needs it intact, and whether it acts in a disease-relevant tissue.

LHFPL6 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 LHFPL6 as an autoantigen. Seroatlas presents hypothesis context only and does not manufacture a known-serology claim.

Canonical record: https://seroatlas.com/gene/LHFPL6. 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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