Seroatlas · Human Serome Atlas

NALF1

NALCN channel auxiliary factor 1

Also known as: FAM155A, NALF1_HUMAN, NLF-1

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

Protein identityUniProt · HPA

UniProt accession
B1AL88
Gene
NALF1
Ensembl
ENSG00000204442
Chromosome
13
Canonical length
458 aa
Protein class
Predicted membrane proteins

OverviewNCBI Gene

Predicted to contribute to stretch-activated, monoatomic cation-selective, calcium channel activity. Predicted to be involved in calcium ion import across plasma membrane. Located in plasma membrane. [provided by Alliance of Genome Resources, Jul 2025]

Canonical amino-acid sequenceUniProt

458 residues, UniProt reviewed canonical sequence.

>B1AL88|NALF1
     1  MTRGAWMCRQ YDDGLKIWLA APRENEKPFI DSERAQKWRL SLASLLFFTV LLSDHLWFCA
    61  EAKLTRARDK EHQQQQRQQQ QQQQQQRQRQ QQQQQRRQQE PSWPALLASM GESSPAAQAH
   121  RLLSASSSPT LPPSPGDGGG GGGKGNRGKD DRGKALFLGN SAKPVWRLET CYPQGASSGQ
   181  CFTVENADAV CARNWSRGAA GGDGQEVRSK HPTPLWNLSD FYLSFCNSYT LWELFSGLSS
   241  PNTLNCSLDV VLKEGGEMTT CRQCVEAYQD YDHHAQEKYE EFESVLHKYL QSEEYSVKSC
   301  PEDCKIVYKA WLCSQYFEVT QFNCRKTIPC KQYCLEVQTR CPFILPDNDE VIYGGLSSFI
   361  CTGLYETFLT NDEPECCDVR REEKSNNPSK GTVEKSGSCH RTSLTVSSAT RLCNSRLKLC
   421  VLVLILLHTV LTASAAQNTA GLSFGGINTL EENSTNEE

LocalizationUniProt · AlphaFold · HPA

Whether an antibody against NALF1 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
2
Mean surface accessibility (rSASA)
0.5
Highest tissue expression
8.5 nTPM

Expression across tissuesHPA

Tissue

  • cerebral cortex: 8.5 nTPM
  • hypothalamus: 5.6 nTPM
  • hippocampal formation: 4.8 nTPM
  • pituitary gland: 4.8 nTPM
  • amygdala: 4.6 nTPM
  • cerebellum: 3.7 nTPM

Single-cell type

  • corticotrophs: 7,761 nCPM
  • lactotrophs: 6,906 nCPM
  • somatotrophs: 6,512 nCPM
  • thyrotrophs: 6,009 nCPM
  • gonadotrophs: 3,616 nCPM
  • brain excitatory neurons: 3,413 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

  • cerebral cortex: 22 nTPM
  • hypothalamus: 22 nTPM
  • hippocampal formation: 19 nTPM
  • basal ganglia: 17 nTPM
  • white matter: 17 nTPM
  • thalamus: 16 nTPM

DiseaseUniProt · ClinVar · IEDB · PubMed

Four sources answering four different questions about NALF1.

Disease | GeneticClinVar

3 pathogenic / likely-pathogenic of 66 ClinVar records.

Conditions with pathogenic or likely-pathogenic variants.

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)
0.31
gnomAD pLI
0.98
DepMap mean gene effect
0.13
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).

OntologyGO

Biological processes

Cellular components

Protein domainsUniProt · Pfam · InterPro

KeywordsUniProt

Antibody and autoantibody relevanceSeroatlas analysis

Seroatlas reads NALF1 as an antibody target. Whether an autoantibody or antibody against NALF1 could matter depends on whether native NALF1 is physically reachable, whether the body needs it intact, and whether it acts in a disease-relevant tissue.

NALF1 is annotated at the cell surface, where native NALF1 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 NALF1 as an autoantigen. Seroatlas presents hypothesis context only and does not manufacture a known-serology claim.

Canonical record: https://seroatlas.com/gene/NALF1. 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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