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RNFT2

E3 ubiquitin-protein ligase RNFT2

Also known as: FLJ14627, RNFT2_HUMAN, TMEM118

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

Protein identityUniProt · HPA

UniProt accession
Q96EX2
Gene
RNFT2
Ensembl
ENSG00000135119
Chromosome
12
Canonical length
444 aa
Protein class
Predicted intracellular proteins, Predicted membrane proteins
Subcellular location
Nucleoplasm,Cytosol

OverviewNCBI Gene

Predicted to enable ubiquitin protein ligase activity. Predicted to be involved in positive regulation of ERAD pathway. Predicted to be located in membrane. [provided by Alliance of Genome Resources, Jul 2025]

Canonical amino-acid sequenceUniProt

444 residues, UniProt reviewed canonical sequence.

>Q96EX2|RNFT2
     1  MWLFTVNQVL RKMQRRHSSN TDNIPPERNR SQALSSEASV DEGGVFESLK AEAASPPALF
    61  SGLSGSLPTS SFPSSLVLGS SAGGGDVFIQ MPASREEGGG RGEGGAYHHR QPHHHFHHGG
   121  HRGGSLLQHV GGDHRGHSEE GGDEQPGTPA PALSELKAVI CWLQKGLPFI LILLAKLCFQ
   181  HKLGIAVCIG MASTFAYANS TLREQVSLKE KRSVLVILWI LAFLAGNTLY VLYTFSSQQL
   241  YNSLIFLKPN LEMLDFFDLL WIVGIADFVL KYITIALKCL IVALPKIILA VKSKGKFYLV
   301  IEELSQLFRS LVPIQLWYKY IMGDDSSNSY FLGGVLIVLY SLCKSFDICG RVGGVRKALK
   361  LLCTSQNYGV RATGQQCTEA GDICAICQAE FREPLILLCQ HVFCEECLCL WLDRERTCPL
   421  CRSVAVDTLR CWKDGATSAH FQVY

LocalizationUniProt · AlphaFold · HPA

Whether an antibody against RNFT2 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
Unknown
Secreted
No
Transmembrane segments
4
Mean surface accessibility (rSASA)
0.45
Highest tissue expression
10 nTPM

Expression across tissuesHPA

Tissue

  • cerebral cortex: 10 nTPM
  • cerebellum: 8.9 nTPM
  • hypothalamus: 8.3 nTPM
  • basal ganglia: 7.8 nTPM
  • hippocampal formation: 7.6 nTPM
  • amygdala: 6.6 nTPM

Single-cell type

  • late spermatids: 98 nCPM
  • thyrotrophs: 67 nCPM
  • early spermatids: 57 nCPM
  • rod photoreceptor cells: 56 nCPM
  • retinal amacrine cells: 51 nCPM
  • retinal bipolar cells: 50 nCPM

Immune cell

  • basophil: 0.9 nTPM
  • naive B-cell: 0.8 nTPM
  • memory B-cell: 0.7 nTPM
  • naive CD8 T-cell: 0.6 nTPM
  • neutrophil: 0.6 nTPM
  • plasmacytoid DC: 0.6 nTPM

Brain region

  • cerebral cortex: 44 nTPM
  • pons: 41 nTPM
  • hippocampal formation: 38 nTPM
  • basal ganglia: 36 nTPM
  • medulla oblongata: 35 nTPM
  • white matter: 35 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)
0.8
gnomAD pLI
0
gnomAD missense Z
2.01
DepMap mean gene effect
-0.01
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

Antibody and autoantibody relevanceSeroatlas analysis

Seroatlas reads RNFT2 as an antibody target. Whether an autoantibody or antibody against RNFT2 could matter depends on whether native RNFT2 is physically reachable, whether the body needs it intact, and whether it acts in a disease-relevant tissue.

RNFT2 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 RNFT2 as an autoantigen. Seroatlas presents hypothesis context only and does not manufacture a known-serology claim.

Canonical record: https://seroatlas.com/gene/RNFT2. 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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