Seroatlas · Human Serome Atlas

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 SPV

LocalizationUniProt · 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

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.

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