RTKN
Rhotekin
Also known as: B5, RTKN_HUMAN
Cross-references: UniProt · Ensembl · Human Protein Atlas · GeneCards · NCBI Gene
Protein identityUniProt · HPA
- UniProt accession
- Q9BST9
- Gene
- RTKN
- Ensembl
- ENSG00000114993
- Chromosome
- 2
- Canonical length
- 563 aa
- Protein class
- Predicted intracellular proteins
- Subcellular location
- Nucleoplasm,Mitochondria
OverviewNCBI Gene
This gene encodes a scaffold protein that interacts with GTP-bound Rho proteins. Binding of this protein inhibits the GTPase activity of Rho proteins. This protein may interfere with the conversion of active, GTP-bound Rho to the inactive GDP-bound form by RhoGAP. Rho proteins regulate many important cellular processes, including cytokinesis, transcription, smooth muscle contraction, cell growth and transformation. Dysregulation of the Rho signal transduction pathway has been implicated in many forms of cancer. Alternative splicing results in multiple transcript variants encoding different isoforms. [provided by RefSeq, Jul 2008]
Canonical amino-acid sequenceUniProt
563 residues, UniProt reviewed canonical sequence.
>Q9BST9|RTKN
1 MFSRNHRSRV TVARGSALEM EFKRGRFRLS LFSDLPEDTE LQRKLDHEIR MREGACKLLA
61 ACSQREQALE ATKSLLVCNS RILSYMGELQ RRKEAQVLGK TSRRPSDSGP PAERSPCRGR
121 VCISDLRIPL MWKDTEYFKN KGDLHRWAVF LLLQLGEHIQ DTEMILVDRT LTDISFQSNV
181 LFAEAGPDFE LRLELYGACV EEEGALTGGP KRLATKLSSS LGRSSGRRVR ASLDSAGGSG
241 SSPILLPTPV VGGPRYHLLA HTTLTLAAVQ DGFRTHDLTL ASHEENPAWL PLYGSVCCRL
301 AAQPLCMTQP TASGTLRVQQ AGEMQNWAQV HGVLKGTNLF CYRQPEDADT GEEPLLTIAV
361 NKETRVRAGE LDQALGRPFT LSISNQYGDD EVTHTLQTES REALQSWMEA LWQLFFDMSQ
421 WKQCCDEIMK IETPAPRKPP QALAKQGSLY HEMAIEPLDD IAAVTDILTQ REGARLETPP
481 PWLAMFTDQP ALPNPCSPAS VAPAPDWTHP LPWGRPRTFS LDAVPPDHSP RARSVAPLPP
541 QRSPRTRGLC SKGQPRTWLQ SPVLocalizationUniProt · AlphaFold · HPA
Whether an antibody against RTKN 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)
- 0.43
- Highest tissue expression
- 121 nTPM
Expression across tissuesHPA
Tissue
- liver: 121 nTPM
- spinal cord: 114 nTPM
- midbrain: 75 nTPM
- hippocampal formation: 63 nTPM
- kidney: 51 nTPM
- basal ganglia: 48 nTPM
Single-cell type
- oligodendrocytes: 85 nCPM
- proximal tubule cells: 77 nCPM
- enterocytes: 72 nCPM
- oligodendrocyte progenitor cells: 70 nCPM
- cytotrophoblasts: 62 nCPM
- esophageal basal cells: 56 nCPM
Immune cell
- plasmacytoid DC: 6.5 nTPM
- NK-cell: 2.3 nTPM
- naive B-cell: 1 nTPM
- memory B-cell: 0.7 nTPM
- myeloid DC: 0.6 nTPM
- total PBMC: 0.4 nTPM
Brain region
- white matter: 173 nTPM
- basal ganglia: 105 nTPM
- medulla oblongata: 102 nTPM
- midbrain: 92 nTPM
- cerebral cortex: 89 nTPM
- thalamus: 86 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)
- 0.76
- gnomAD pLI
- 0
- gnomAD missense Z
- 1.02
- DepMap mean gene effect
- -0.04
- DepMap dependency class
- selective
Cancer expressionTCGA
Across TCGA tumor cohorts, this protein is over-expressed in roughly 6% of surveyed tumor types (aggregate summary; per-cohort expression, alteration, and survival load in the interactive view).
OntologyGO
Biological processes
- actomyosin contractile ring assembly
- apoptotic process
- mitotic cytokinesis
- regulation of apoptotic process
- Rho protein signal transduction
- septin ring organization
- signal transduction
Molecular functions
Cellular components
Protein domainsUniProt · Pfam · InterPro
KeywordsUniProt
InteractionsUniProt · HPA
Protein binding partners of RTKN 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 RTKN as an antibody target. Whether an autoantibody or antibody against RTKN could matter depends on whether native RTKN is physically reachable, whether the body needs it intact, and whether it acts in a disease-relevant tissue.
RTKN 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 RTKN as an autoantigen. Seroatlas presents hypothesis context only and does not manufacture a known-serology claim.
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