Seroatlas · Human Serome Atlas

LLPH

Protein LLP homolog

Also known as: C12orf31, hLLP, LLPH_HUMAN, MGC14817

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

Protein identityUniProt · HPA

UniProt accession
Q9BRT6
Gene
LLPH
Ensembl
ENSG00000139233
Chromosome
12
Canonical length
129 aa
Protein class
Predicted intracellular proteins
Subcellular location
Nucleoli,Mitotic chromosome

OverviewNCBI Gene

Enables RNA binding activity. Predicted to be involved in dendrite extension and positive regulation of dendritic spine development. Located in chromosome and nucleolus. [provided by Alliance of Genome Resources, Jul 2025]

Canonical amino-acid sequenceUniProt

129 residues, UniProt reviewed canonical sequence.

>Q9BRT6|LLPH
     1  MAKSLRSKWK RKMRAEKRKK NAPKEASRLK SILKLDGDVL MKDVQEIATV VVPKPKHCQE
    61  KMQCEVKDEK DDMKMETDIK RNKKTLLDQH GQYPIWMNQR QRKRLKAKRE KRKGKSKAKA
   121  VKVAKGLAW

LocalizationUniProt · AlphaFold · HPA

Whether an antibody against LLPH 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)
0.55
Highest tissue expression
47 nTPM

Expression across tissuesHPA

Tissue

  • bone marrow: 47 nTPM
  • adrenal gland: 32 nTPM
  • skeletal muscle: 28 nTPM
  • urinary bladder: 26 nTPM
  • lymph node: 25 nTPM
  • tonsil: 24 nTPM

Single-cell type

  • late primary spermatocytes: 182 nCPM
  • esophageal suprabasal cells: 88 nCPM
  • esophageal basal cells: 88 nCPM
  • migrating cytotrophoblasts: 81 nCPM
  • extravillous trophoblasts: 80 nCPM
  • syncytiotrophoblasts: 78 nCPM

Immune cell

  • non-classical monocyte: 48 nTPM
  • neutrophil: 43 nTPM
  • T-reg: 39 nTPM
  • intermediate monocyte: 37 nTPM
  • eosinophil: 35 nTPM
  • basophil: 34 nTPM

Brain region

  • midbrain: 16 nTPM
  • cerebral cortex: 16 nTPM
  • white matter: 15 nTPM
  • medulla oblongata: 15 nTPM
  • hypothalamus: 15 nTPM
  • pons: 15 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)
1.05
gnomAD pLI
0.35
gnomAD missense Z
-0.26
DepMap mean gene effect
-0.42
DepMap dependency class
selective

Cancer expressionTCGA

Across TCGA tumor cohorts, this protein is over-expressed in roughly 8% of surveyed tumor types (aggregate summary; per-cohort expression, alteration, and survival load in the interactive view).

OntologyGO

Biological processes

Molecular functions

  • RNA binding
  • basal RNA polymerase II transcription machinery binding

Cellular components

Protein domainsUniProt · Pfam · InterPro

  • LLP homolog-like
  • LLP homolog

KeywordsUniProt

InteractionsUniProt · HPA

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

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

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