Seroatlas · Human Serome Atlas

PIRT

Phosphoinositide-interacting protein

Also known as: PIRT_HUMAN

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

Protein identityUniProt · HPA

UniProt accession
P0C851
Gene
PIRT
Ensembl
ENSG00000233670
Chromosome
17
Canonical length
137 aa
Protein class
Predicted membrane proteins, Transporters
Subcellular location
Plasma membrane,Cytosol

OverviewNCBI Gene

Predicted to enable phosphatidylinositol bisphosphate binding activity and transmembrane transporter binding activity. Predicted to be involved in regulation of sensory perception of pain. Predicted to act upstream of or within behavioral response to pain; positive regulation of cation channel activity; and response to heat. Predicted to be located in membrane. Predicted to be active in plasma membrane. [provided by Alliance of Genome Resources, Apr 2025]

Canonical amino-acid sequenceUniProt

137 residues, UniProt reviewed canonical sequence.

>P0C851|PIRT
     1  MTMETLPKVL EVDEKSPEAK DLLPSQTASS LCISSRSESV WTTTPRSNWE IYRKPIVIMS
    61  VGGAILLFGV VITCLAYTLK LSDKSLSILK MVGPGFLSLG LMMLVCGLVW VPIIKKKQKH
   121  RQKSNFLRSL KSFFLTR

LocalizationUniProt · AlphaFold · HPA

Whether an antibody against PIRT 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)
0.54
Highest tissue expression
12 nTPM

Expression across tissuesHPA

Tissue

  • midbrain: 12 nTPM
  • hypothalamus: 11 nTPM
  • spinal cord: 6.7 nTPM
  • hippocampal formation: 4.6 nTPM
  • colon: 4.1 nTPM
  • amygdala: 3.9 nTPM

Single-cell type

  • bergmann glia: 22 nCPM
  • astrocytes: 21 nCPM
  • ependymal cells: 16 nCPM
  • oligodendrocyte progenitor cells: 2.6 nCPM
  • other brain neurons: 2.4 nCPM
  • brain inhibitory neurons: 0.9 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

  • thalamus: 52 nTPM
  • medulla oblongata: 46 nTPM
  • midbrain: 34 nTPM
  • pons: 29 nTPM
  • hypothalamus: 24 nTPM
  • spinal cord: 24 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)
1.09
gnomAD pLI
0.58
gnomAD missense Z
-0.05
DepMap mean gene effect
0.12
DepMap dependency class
none

Cancer expressionTCGA

Across TCGA tumor cohorts, this protein is over-expressed in roughly 3% 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

  • Phosphoinositide-interacting protein
  • Phosphoinositide-interacting protein family

KeywordsUniProt

InteractionsUniProt · HPA

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

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

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