Seroatlas · Human Serome Atlas

NTPCR

Cancer-related nucleoside-triphosphatase

Also known as: C1orf57, HCR-NTPase, MGC13186, NTPCR_HUMAN, THEP1

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

Protein identityUniProt · HPA

UniProt accession
Q9BSD7
Gene
NTPCR
Ensembl
ENSG00000135778
Chromosome
1
Canonical length
190 aa
Protein class
Enzymes, Metabolic proteins, Predicted intracellular proteins
Subcellular location
Cytosol

OverviewNCBI Gene

The protein encoded by this gene is a non-specific nucleoside triphosphatase that is slow-acting in vitro. This gene is overexpressed in many tumor tissues, and while it is not essential for the cell, overexpression is cytotoxic. However, the cytotoxicity is not related to its triphosphatase activity. [provided by RefSeq, Jul 2016]

Canonical amino-acid sequenceUniProt

190 residues, UniProt reviewed canonical sequence.

>Q9BSD7|NTPCR
     1  MARHVFLTGP PGVGKTTLIH KASEVLKSSG VPVDGFYTEE VRQGGRRIGF DVVTLSGTRG
    61  PLSRVGLEPP PGKRECRVGQ YVVDLTSFEQ LALPVLRNAD CSSGPGQRVC VIDEIGKMEL
   121  FSQLFIQAVR QTLSTPGTII LGTIPVPKGK PLALVEEIRN RKDVKVFNVT KENRNHLLPD
   181  IVTCVQSSRK

LocalizationUniProt · AlphaFold · HPA

Whether an antibody against NTPCR 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)
0.3
Highest tissue expression
13 nTPM

Expression across tissuesHPA

Tissue

  • skeletal muscle: 13 nTPM
  • tongue: 11 nTPM
  • choroid plexus: 10 nTPM
  • cerebral cortex: 7.9 nTPM
  • basal ganglia: 7.7 nTPM
  • midbrain: 7.4 nTPM

Single-cell type

  • late primary spermatocytes: 120 nCPM
  • choroid plexus epithelial cells: 103 nCPM
  • retinal pigment epithelial cells: 102 nCPM
  • esophageal suprabasal cells: 98 nCPM
  • cytotrophoblasts: 93 nCPM
  • oocytes: 88 nCPM

Immune cell

  • naive CD4 T-cell: 1.2 nTPM
  • T-reg: 1.1 nTPM
  • naive CD8 T-cell: 1 nTPM
  • memory CD4 T-cell: 0.9 nTPM
  • neutrophil: 0.9 nTPM
  • MAIT T-cell: 0.7 nTPM

Brain region

  • pons: 20 nTPM
  • choroid plexus: 18 nTPM
  • hypothalamus: 17 nTPM
  • medulla oblongata: 16 nTPM
  • spinal cord: 16 nTPM
  • thalamus: 16 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)
1.28
gnomAD pLI
0
gnomAD missense Z
0.3
DepMap mean gene effect
0.04
DepMap dependency class
none

Cancer expressionTCGA

Across TCGA tumor cohorts, this protein is over-expressed in roughly 9% of surveyed tumor types (aggregate summary; per-cohort expression, alteration, and survival load in the interactive view).

OntologyGO

Molecular functions

Cellular components

Protein domainsUniProt · Pfam · InterPro

KeywordsUniProt

Antibody and autoantibody relevanceSeroatlas analysis

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

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

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