Seroatlas · Human Serome Atlas

NFIX

Nuclear factor 1 X-type

Also known as: NF1A, NFIX_HUMAN

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

Protein identityUniProt · HPA

UniProt accession
Q14938
Gene
NFIX
Ensembl
ENSG00000008441
Chromosome
19
Canonical length
502 aa
Protein class
Disease related genes, Human disease related genes, Predicted intracellular proteins, Transcription factors
Subcellular location
Nucleoplasm
Quaternary structure
Homodimer

OverviewNCBI Gene

The protein encoded by this gene is a transcription factor that binds the palindromic sequence 5'-TTGGCNNNNNGCCAA-3 in viral and cellular promoters. The encoded protein can also stimulate adenovirus replication in vitro. Three transcript variants encoding different isoforms have been found for this gene. [provided by RefSeq, Aug 2012]

Canonical amino-acid sequenceUniProt

502 residues, UniProt reviewed canonical sequence.

>Q14938|NFIX
     1  MYSPYCLTQD EFHPFIEALL PHVRAFSYTW FNLQARKRKY FKKHEKRMSK DEERAVKDEL
    61  LGEKPEIKQK WASRLLAKLR KDIRPEFRED FVLTITGKKP PCCVLSNPDQ KGKIRRIDCL
   121  RQADKVWRLD LVMVILFKGI PLESTDGERL YKSPQCSNPG LCVQPHHIGV TIKELDLYLA
   181  YFVHTPESGQ SDSSNQQGDA DIKPLPNGHL SFQDCFVTSG VWNVTELVRV SQTPVATASG
   241  PNFSLADLES PSYYNINQVT LGRRSITSPP STSTTKRPKS IDDSEMESPV DDVFYPGTGR
   301  SPAAGSSQSS GWPNDVDAGP ASLKKSGKLD FCSALSSQGS SPRMAFTHHP LPVLAGVRPG
   361  SPRATASALH FPSTSIIQQS SPYFTHPTIR YHHHHGQDSL KEFVQFVCSD GSGQATGQPN
   421  GSGQGKVPGS FLLPPPPPVA RPVPLPMPDS KSTSTAPDGA ALTPPSPSFA TTGASSANRF
   481  VSIGPRDGNF LNIPQQSQSW FL

LocalizationUniProt · AlphaFold · HPA

Whether an antibody against NFIX 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
391 nTPM

Expression across tissuesHPA

Tissue

  • skeletal muscle: 391 nTPM
  • tongue: 148 nTPM
  • salivary gland: 143 nTPM
  • cerebellum: 135 nTPM
  • cerebral cortex: 103 nTPM
  • skin: 94 nTPM

Single-cell type

  • pituitary stem cells: 336 nCPM
  • prostatic glandular cells: 322 nCPM
  • ependymal cells: 271 nCPM
  • myonuclei: 267 nCPM
  • oligodendrocytes: 265 nCPM
  • salivary acinar cells: 251 nCPM

Immune cell

  • gdT-cell: 0.5 nTPM
  • MAIT T-cell: 0.5 nTPM
  • intermediate monocyte: 0.2 nTPM
  • naive B-cell: 0.2 nTPM
  • naive CD4 T-cell: 0.2 nTPM
  • basophil: 0.1 nTPM

Brain region

  • cerebellum: 397 nTPM
  • white matter: 390 nTPM
  • cerebral cortex: 386 nTPM
  • basal ganglia: 346 nTPM
  • hippocampal formation: 289 nTPM
  • medulla oblongata: 287 nTPM

DiseaseUniProt · ClinVar · IEDB · PubMed

Four sources answering four different questions about NFIX.

Disease | AllUniProt

Conditions NFIX is implicated in, by any mechanism.

Disease | GeneticClinVar

176 pathogenic / likely-pathogenic of 517 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)
0.15
gnomAD pLI
1
gnomAD missense Z
4.08
DepMap mean gene effect
0.04
DepMap dependency class
selective

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

KeywordsUniProt

InteractionsUniProt · HPA

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

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

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