Seroatlas · Human Serome Atlas

RNF180

E3 ubiquitin-protein ligase RNF180

Also known as: RN180_HUMAN

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

Protein identityUniProt · HPA

UniProt accession
Q86T96
Gene
RNF180
Ensembl
ENSG00000164197
Chromosome
5
Canonical length
592 aa
Protein class
Enzymes, Metabolic proteins, Predicted intracellular proteins, Predicted membrane proteins
Subcellular location
Cytosol

OverviewNCBI Gene

Predicted to enable ubiquitin conjugating enzyme binding activity and ubiquitin protein ligase activity. Predicted to be involved in norepinephrine metabolic process; positive regulation of proteasomal ubiquitin-dependent protein catabolic process; and serotonin metabolic process. Predicted to act upstream of or within several processes, including adult behavior; positive regulation of protein ubiquitination; and protein polyubiquitination. Predicted to be located in endoplasmic reticulum; membrane; and nuclear envelope. Predicted to be active in endoplasmic reticulum membrane. [provided by Alliance of Genome Resources, Apr 2025]

Canonical amino-acid sequenceUniProt

592 residues, UniProt reviewed canonical sequence.

>Q86T96|RNF180
     1  MKRSKELITK NHSQEETSIL RCWKCRKCIA SSGCFMEYLE NQVIKDKDDS VDAQNICHVW
    61  HMNVEALPEW ISCLIQKAQW TVGKLNCPFC GARLGGFNFV STPKCSCGQL AAVHLSKSRT
   121  DYQPTQAGRL MRPSVKYLSH PRVQSGCDKE ALLTGGGSEN RNHRLLNMAR NNNDPGRLTE
   181  ALCLEVRPTY FEMKNEKLLS KASEPKYQLF VPQLVTGRCA TRAFHRKSHS LDLNISEKLT
   241  LLPTLYEIHS KTTAYSRLNE TQPIDLSGLP LQSSKNSYSF QNPSSFDPSM LLQRFSVAPH
   301  ETQTQRGGEF QCGLEAASVY SDHTNTNNLT FLMDLPSAGR SMPEASDQEE HLSPLDFLHS
   361  ANFSLGSINQ RLNKRERSKL KNLRRKQRRR ERWLQKQGKY SGVGLLDHMT LNNEMSTDED
   421  NEYAEEKDSY ICAVCLDVYF NPYMCYPCHH IFCEPCLRTL AKDNPSSTPC PLCRTIISRV
   481  FFQTELNNAT KTFFTKEYLK IKQSFQKSNS AKWPLPSCRK AFHLFGGFRR HAAPVTRRQF
   541  PHGAHRMDYL HFEDDSRGWW FDMDMVIIYI YSVNWVIGFI VFCFLCYFFF PF

LocalizationUniProt · AlphaFold · HPA

Whether an antibody against RNF180 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
Other membrane
Secreted
No
Transmembrane segments
1
Mean surface accessibility (rSASA)
0.57
Highest tissue expression
24 nTPM

Expression across tissuesHPA

Tissue

  • parathyroid gland: 24 nTPM
  • thyroid gland: 13 nTPM
  • blood vessel: 11 nTPM
  • seminal vesicle: 9.9 nTPM
  • cerebral cortex: 7.7 nTPM
  • kidney: 7.5 nTPM

Single-cell type

  • lactotrophs: 249 nCPM
  • oligodendrocyte progenitor cells: 227 nCPM
  • thyrotrophs: 223 nCPM
  • somatotrophs: 204 nCPM
  • pituitary stem cells: 194 nCPM
  • corticotrophs: 189 nCPM

Immune cell

  • eosinophil: 1.7 nTPM
  • naive CD4 T-cell: 1.4 nTPM
  • naive CD8 T-cell: 1.3 nTPM
  • basophil: 1.2 nTPM
  • memory CD8 T-cell: 1.1 nTPM
  • neutrophil: 1.1 nTPM

Brain region

  • hypothalamus: 36 nTPM
  • thalamus: 33 nTPM
  • midbrain: 31 nTPM
  • pons: 29 nTPM
  • cerebral cortex: 29 nTPM
  • spinal cord: 29 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)
0.84
gnomAD pLI
0
gnomAD missense Z
0.62
DepMap mean gene effect
-0.06
DepMap dependency class
selective

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

KeywordsUniProt

InteractionsUniProt · HPA

Protein binding partners of RNF180 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 RNF180 as an antibody target. Whether an autoantibody or antibody against RNF180 could matter depends on whether native RNF180 is physically reachable, whether the body needs it intact, and whether it acts in a disease-relevant tissue.

RNF180 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 RNF180 as an autoantigen. Seroatlas presents hypothesis context only and does not manufacture a known-serology claim.

Canonical record: https://seroatlas.com/gene/RNF180. 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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