LINGO4
Leucine-rich repeat and immunoglobulin-like domain-containing nogo receptor-interacting protein 4
Also known as: LIGO4_HUMAN, LRRN6D
Cross-references: UniProt · Ensembl · Human Protein Atlas · GeneCards · NCBI Gene
Protein identityUniProt · HPA
- UniProt accession
- Q6UY18
- Gene
- LINGO4
- Ensembl
- ENSG00000213171
- Chromosome
- 1
- Canonical length
- 593 aa
- Protein class
- Predicted membrane proteins
- Subcellular location
- Golgi apparatus,Vesicles
OverviewNCBI Gene
Predicted to act upstream of or within positive regulation of synapse assembly. Predicted to be located in membrane. Predicted to be active in extracellular matrix and extracellular space. [provided by Alliance of Genome Resources, Jul 2025]
Canonical amino-acid sequenceUniProt
593 residues, UniProt reviewed canonical sequence.
>Q6UY18|LINGO4
1 MDAATAPKQA WPPWPPLLFL LLLPGGSGGS CPAVCDCTSQ PQAVLCGHRQ LEAVPGGLPL
61 DTELLDLSGN RLWGLQQGML SRLSLLQELD LSYNQLSTLE PGAFHGLQSL LTLRLQGNRL
121 RIMGPGVFSG LSALTLLDLR LNQIVLFLDG AFGELGSLQK LEVGDNHLVF VAPGAFAGLA
181 KLSTLTLERC NLSTVPGLAL ARLPALVALR LRELDIGRLP AGALRGLGQL KELEIHLWPS
241 LEALDPGSLV GLNLSSLAIT RCNLSSVPFQ ALYHLSFLRV LDLSQNPISA IPARRLSPLV
301 RLQELRLSGA CLTSIAAHAF HGLTAFHLLD VADNALQTLE ETAFPSPDKL VTLRLSGNPL
361 TCDCRLLWLL RLRRHLDFGM SPPACAGPHH VQGKSLKEFS DILPPGHFTC KPALIRKSGP
421 RWVIAEEGGH AVFSCSGDGD PAPTVSWMRP HGAWLGRAGR VRVLEDGTLE IRSVQLRDRG
481 AYVCVVSNVA GNDSLRTWLE VIQVEPPNGT LSDPNITVPG IPGPFFLDSR GVAMVLAVGF
541 LPFLTSVTLC FGLIALWSKG KGRVKHHMTF DFVAPRPSGD KNSGGNRVTA KLFLocalizationUniProt · AlphaFold · HPA
Whether an antibody against LINGO4 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
- 1
- Mean surface accessibility (rSASA)
- 0.33
- Highest tissue expression
- 23 nTPM
Expression across tissuesHPA
Tissue
- skeletal muscle: 23 nTPM
- cerebellum: 6.3 nTPM
- tongue: 5.2 nTPM
- adrenal gland: 1.9 nTPM
- pituitary gland: 1.6 nTPM
- liver: 1.3 nTPM
Single-cell type
- adrenal medulla cells: 11 nCPM
- innate lymphoid cells: 6.2 nCPM
- myonuclei: 3.6 nCPM
- epicardial cells: 2.3 nCPM
- fallopian tube ciliated cells: 1.7 nCPM
- renal collecting duct intercalated cells: 1.6 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
- cerebellum: 9 nTPM
- pons: 8.7 nTPM
- medulla oblongata: 6.3 nTPM
- white matter: 4.6 nTPM
- midbrain: 3.8 nTPM
- thalamus: 3.7 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)
- 1.17
- gnomAD pLI
- 0
- gnomAD missense Z
- 0.68
- DepMap mean gene effect
- 0.03
- 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
- Leucine-rich repeat N-terminal domain
- Cysteine-rich flanking region, C-terminal
- Leucine-rich repeat
- Leucine-rich repeat, typical subtype
- Immunoglobulin subtype 2
- Immunoglobulin domain subtype
- Immunoglobulin-like domain
- Immunoglobulin I-set
- Immunoglobulin-like fold
- Leucine-rich repeat domain superfamily
- Immunoglobulin-like domain superfamily
- Leucine-rich repeat and fibronectin type-III domain-containing
- Immunoglobulin I-set domain
- Leucine rich repeat
KeywordsUniProt
Antibody and autoantibody relevanceSeroatlas analysis
Seroatlas reads LINGO4 as an antibody target. Whether an autoantibody or antibody against LINGO4 could matter depends on whether native LINGO4 is physically reachable, whether the body needs it intact, and whether it acts in a disease-relevant tissue.
LINGO4 is annotated at the cell surface, where native LINGO4 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 LINGO4 as an autoantigen. Seroatlas presents hypothesis context only and does not manufacture a known-serology claim.
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