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MAB21L4

Protein mab-21-like 4

Also known as: C2orf54, FLJ22671, MB214_HUMAN

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

Protein identityUniProt · HPA

UniProt accession
Q08AI8
Gene
MAB21L4
Ensembl
ENSG00000172478
Chromosome
2
Canonical length
447 aa
Protein class
Predicted intracellular proteins
Subcellular location
Nucleoplasm,Golgi apparatus

OverviewNCBI Gene

No narrative summary is available for MAB21L4 in this catalog release; identity and structured annotations are shown without generated factual claims.

Canonical amino-acid sequenceUniProt

447 residues, UniProt reviewed canonical sequence.

>Q08AI8|MAB21L4
     1  MPAPALPTSA MAVQVPLWHH YLQAIRSREA PRAQDFQRAE NVLLTVLERV HALDPRFIVD
    61  YSRGLEAFQF ALRSSEDPMD MEVPLWVDAE ALLIEEPEAT QPEDGLELCH LGVPREGAGL
   121  ERWTTEDTFT ASSEGDAKCR GHIVPSKVLC VLKDLLVAAI VHCKHHSLIA PGSLNAASLR
   181  EEQLHLSLLV SSGWRTISFH VVPVVRRKLG APALEGVQQM PGFPEGSLRR ILSQGVDLVP
   241  ASAQLWRTST DYLLTRLLGE LGSLQGHRLD SLSILDRVNH ESWRDSGQTD GLTFGHLKMV
   301  LLWASVLFLA PEDWAELQGA VYRLLVVLLC CLATRKLPHF LHPQRNLLQG SGLDLGAIYQ
   361  RVEGFASQPE AALRIHATHL GRSPPPRIGS GLKALLQLPA SDPTYWATAY FDVLLDKFQV
   421  FNIQDKDRIS AMQSIFQKTR TLGGEES

LocalizationUniProt · AlphaFold · HPA

Whether an antibody against MAB21L4 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
0
Mean surface accessibility (rSASA)
0.27
Highest tissue expression
190 nTPM

Expression across tissuesHPA

Tissue

  • esophagus: 190 nTPM
  • vagina: 58 nTPM
  • cervix: 56 nTPM
  • skin: 45 nTPM
  • tonsil: 22 nTPM
  • salivary gland: 19 nTPM

Single-cell type

  • esophageal apical cells: 1,388 nCPM
  • esophageal suprabasal cells: 187 nCPM
  • alveolar cells type 1: 103 nCPM
  • salivary duct cells: 79 nCPM
  • suprabasal keratinocytes: 69 nCPM
  • esophageal basal cells: 39 nCPM

Immune cell

  • NK-cell: 0.9 nTPM
  • eosinophil: 0.1 nTPM
  • memory CD4 T-cell: 0.1 nTPM
  • naive B-cell: 0.1 nTPM
  • basophil: 0 nTPM
  • classical monocyte: 0 nTPM

Brain region

  • cerebral cortex: 8.6 nTPM
  • hippocampal formation: 7.6 nTPM
  • basal ganglia: 7 nTPM
  • cerebellum: 6.9 nTPM
  • amygdala: 6.6 nTPM
  • pons: 6.6 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)
1.53
gnomAD pLI
0
DepMap mean gene effect
0.02
DepMap dependency class
selective

Cancer expressionTCGA

Across TCGA tumor cohorts, this protein is over-expressed in roughly 4% of surveyed tumor types (aggregate summary; per-cohort expression, alteration, and survival load in the interactive view).

Protein domainsUniProt · Pfam · InterPro

Antibody and autoantibody relevanceSeroatlas analysis

Seroatlas reads MAB21L4 as an antibody target. Whether an autoantibody or antibody against MAB21L4 could matter depends on whether native MAB21L4 is physically reachable, whether the body needs it intact, and whether it acts in a disease-relevant tissue.

MAB21L4 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 MAB21L4 as an autoantigen. Seroatlas presents hypothesis context only and does not manufacture a known-serology claim.

Canonical record: https://seroatlas.com/gene/MAB21L4. 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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