Seroatlas · Human Serome Atlas

PTCRA

Pre T-cell antigen receptor alpha

Also known as: PT-ALPHA, PTA, PTCRA_HUMAN

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

Protein identityUniProt · HPA

UniProt accession
Q6ISU1
Gene
PTCRA
Ensembl
ENSG00000171611
Chromosome
6
Canonical length
281 aa
Protein class
Predicted membrane proteins

OverviewNCBI Gene

The protein encoded by this gene is a single-pass type I membrane protein that is found in immmature but not mature T-cells. Along with TCRB and CD3 complex, the encoded protein forms the pre-T-cell receptor complex, which regulates early T-cell development. Four transcript variants encoding different isoforms have been found for this gene.[provided by RefSeq, Jul 2011]

Canonical amino-acid sequenceUniProt

281 residues, UniProt reviewed canonical sequence.

>Q6ISU1|PTCRA
     1  MAGTWLLLLL ALGCPALPTG VGGTPFPSLA PPIMLLVDGK QQMVVVCLVL DVAPPGLDSP
    61  IWFSAGNGSA LDAFTYGPSP ATDGTWTNLA HLSLPSEELA SWEPLVCHTG PGAEGHSRST
   121  QPMHLSGEAS TARTCPQEPL RGTPGGALWL GVLRLLLFKL LLFDLLLTCS CLCDPAGPLP
   181  SPATTTRLRA LGSHRLHPAT ETGGREATSS PRPQPRDRRW GDTPPGRKPG SPVWGEGSYL
   241  SSYPTCPAQA WCSRSALRAP SSSLGAFFAG DLPPPLQAGA A

LocalizationUniProt · AlphaFold · HPA

Whether an antibody against PTCRA 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
1
Mean surface accessibility (rSASA)
0.54
Highest tissue expression
120 nTPM

Expression across tissuesHPA

Tissue

  • thymus: 120 nTPM
  • spleen: 4.9 nTPM
  • lymph node: 2.7 nTPM
  • lung: 2.6 nTPM
  • tonsil: 2.1 nTPM
  • bone marrow: 1.6 nTPM

Single-cell type

  • platelets: 3,217 nCPM
  • pdcs: 179 nCPM
  • megakaryocytes: 56 nCPM
  • kupffer cells: 32 nCPM
  • thymocytes: 20 nCPM
  • hofbauer cells: 19 nCPM

Immune cell

  • plasmacytoid DC: 412 nTPM
  • total PBMC: 33 nTPM
  • neutrophil: 8.9 nTPM
  • basophil: 8.7 nTPM
  • eosinophil: 1.8 nTPM
  • intermediate monocyte: 1.1 nTPM

Brain region

  • thalamus: 6.1 nTPM
  • white matter: 3.6 nTPM
  • cerebral cortex: 3.4 nTPM
  • medulla oblongata: 2.3 nTPM
  • pons: 1.9 nTPM
  • basal ganglia: 1.6 nTPM

DiseaseUniProt · ClinVar · IEDB · PubMed

Four sources answering four different questions about PTCRA.

Disease | AllUniProt

Conditions PTCRA is implicated in, by any mechanism.

Disease | GeneticClinVar

1 pathogenic / likely-pathogenic of 51 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)
1.08
gnomAD pLI
0.14
gnomAD missense Z
0.1
DepMap mean gene effect
-0.06
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

InteractionsUniProt · HPA

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

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

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