Seroatlas · Human Serome Atlas

TNFRSF9

Tumor necrosis factor receptor superfamily member 9

Also known as: 4-1BB, CD137, ILA, TNR9_HUMAN

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

Protein identityUniProt · HPA

UniProt accession
Q07011
Gene
TNFRSF9
Ensembl
ENSG00000049249
Chromosome
1
Canonical length
255 aa
Protein class
Cancer-related genes, CD markers, Predicted intracellular proteins, Predicted membrane proteins, Transporters
Subcellular location
Nucleoli,Plasma membrane

OverviewNCBI Gene

The protein encoded by this gene is a member of the TNF-receptor superfamily. This receptor contributes to the clonal expansion, survival, and development of T cells. It can also induce proliferation in peripheral monocytes, enhance T cell apoptosis induced by TCR/CD3 triggered activation, and regulate CD28 co-stimulation to promote Th1 cell responses. The expression of this receptor is induced by lymphocyte activation. TRAF adaptor proteins have been shown to bind to this receptor and transduce the signals leading to activation of NF-kappaB. [provided by RefSeq, Jul 2008]

Canonical amino-acid sequenceUniProt

255 residues, UniProt reviewed canonical sequence.

>Q07011|TNFRSF9
     1  MGNSCYNIVA TLLLVLNFER TRSLQDPCSN CPAGTFCDNN RNQICSPCPP NSFSSAGGQR
    61  TCDICRQCKG VFRTRKECSS TSNAECDCTP GFHCLGAGCS MCEQDCKQGQ ELTKKGCKDC
   121  CFGTFNDQKR GICRPWTNCS LDGKSVLVNG TKERDVVCGP SPADLSPGAS SVTPPAPARE
   181  PGHSPQIISF FLALTSTALL FLLFFLTLRF SVVKRGRKKL LYIFKQPFMR PVQTTQEEDG
   241  CSCRFPEEEE GGCEL

LocalizationUniProt · AlphaFold · HPA

Whether an antibody against TNFRSF9 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)
0.48
Highest tissue expression
9.2 nTPM

Expression across tissuesHPA

Tissue

  • tonsil: 9.2 nTPM
  • lymph node: 8.4 nTPM
  • spleen: 3.9 nTPM
  • appendix: 3.7 nTPM
  • thymus: 3.4 nTPM
  • bone marrow: 2.3 nTPM

Single-cell type

  • mast cells: 90 nCPM
  • t-cells: 45 nCPM
  • nk-cells: 26 nCPM
  • innate lymphoid cells: 19 nCPM
  • cdc: 14 nCPM
  • neutrophils: 12 nCPM

Immune cell

  • T-reg: 19 nTPM
  • memory CD8 T-cell: 9.4 nTPM
  • neutrophil: 8.6 nTPM
  • NK-cell: 5.1 nTPM
  • classical monocyte: 2 nTPM
  • naive CD8 T-cell: 1.8 nTPM

Brain region

  • cerebellum: 5.4 nTPM
  • white matter: 5.4 nTPM
  • cerebral cortex: 4.5 nTPM
  • choroid plexus: 4.5 nTPM
  • amygdala: 4.4 nTPM
  • hippocampal formation: 4.3 nTPM

DiseaseUniProt · ClinVar · IEDB · PubMed

Four sources answering four different questions about TNFRSF9.

Disease | AllUniProt

Conditions TNFRSF9 is implicated in, by any mechanism.

Disease | GeneticClinVar

13 pathogenic / likely-pathogenic of 207 ClinVar records.

Conditions with pathogenic or likely-pathogenic variants.

Disease | AutoantibodyPubMed

Conditions in which antibodies against TNFRSF9 are reported. Each links to that disease's full target list.

ReferencesPubMed · IEDB

Publications for TNFRSF9 from three distinct lines of evidence, kept separate because they answer different questions: whether antibodies are directed at the protein, whether a B-cell epitope has been mapped on it, and whether a T-cell epitope has. Each is labelled with its source.

Reference: B cellIEDB

1 publication

Sources: PubMed — antigen-level antibody evidence from a custom retrieval. Records matching a controlled set of autoantibody terms (the MeSH descriptors Autoantibodies and Autoantigens, with title and abstract term variants) were obtained through NCBI E-utilities, and their titles and abstracts parsed for constructions that direct an antibody at a named protein rather than for co-occurrence. Captured names were resolved against UniProt nomenclature and each antigen adjudicated individually against the source text. IEDB — curated epitope assays from the Immune Epitope Database (Vita et al., Nucleic Acids Research 2019). Bibliographic records from PubMed and MeSH, U.S. National Library of Medicine; citation metrics from NIH iCite (Hutchins et al., PLoS Biology 2016). Titles link to PubMed; abstracts are not reproduced here. The NLM does not endorse this analysis.

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)
0.61
gnomAD pLI
0.32
gnomAD missense Z
0.36
DepMap mean gene effect
-0.06
DepMap dependency class
none

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

Molecular functions

Cellular components

Protein domainsUniProt · Pfam · InterPro

KeywordsUniProt

InteractionsUniProt · HPA

Protein binding partners of TNFRSF9 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 TNFRSF9 as an antibody target. Whether an autoantibody or antibody against TNFRSF9 could matter depends on whether native TNFRSF9 is physically reachable, whether the body needs it intact, and whether it acts in a disease-relevant tissue.

TNFRSF9 is annotated at the cell surface, where native TNFRSF9 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 TNFRSF9 as an autoantigen. Seroatlas presents hypothesis context only and does not manufacture a known-serology claim.

Canonical record: https://seroatlas.com/gene/TNFRSF9. 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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