Seroatlas · Human Serome Atlas

TRAPPC3L

Trafficking protein particle complex subunit 3-like protein

Also known as: bA259P20.2, BET3L, FLJ11180, TPC3L_HUMAN

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

Protein identityUniProt · HPA

UniProt accession
Q5T215
Gene
TRAPPC3L
Ensembl
ENSG00000173626
Chromosome
6
Canonical length
181 aa
Protein class
Predicted intracellular proteins
Subcellular location
Golgi apparatus,Vesicles
Quaternary structure
Homodimer

OverviewNCBI Gene

Predicted to be involved in endoplasmic reticulum to Golgi vesicle-mediated transport and intra-Golgi vesicle-mediated transport. Part of TRAPP complex. [provided by Alliance of Genome Resources, Jul 2025]

Canonical amino-acid sequenceUniProt

181 residues, UniProt reviewed canonical sequence.

>Q5T215|TRAPPC3L
     1  MSRPAHRRPE YHKINKDLFV LTYGALVAQL CKDYEKDEDV NQYLDKMGYG IGTRLVEDFL
    61  ARSCVGRCHS YSEIIDIIAQ VAFKMYLGIT PSVTCNNSSK NEFSLILEKN PLVEFVEELP
   121  AGRSSLCYCN LLCGIIRGAL EMVHLAADVT FLQDRLKGDS VTEIGITFLK KRDEKKYRGK
   181  K

LocalizationUniProt · AlphaFold · HPA

Whether an antibody against TRAPPC3L 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)
0.36
Highest tissue expression
4.2 nTPM

Expression across tissuesHPA

Tissue

  • spleen: 4.2 nTPM
  • retina: 4.1 nTPM
  • placenta: 3.6 nTPM
  • bone marrow: 3 nTPM
  • parathyroid gland: 2.8 nTPM
  • skin: 1.9 nTPM

Single-cell type

  • platelets: 147 nCPM
  • kupffer cells: 11 nCPM
  • epicardial cells: 4.5 nCPM
  • late primary spermatocytes: 4.3 nCPM
  • pericytes: 3.9 nCPM
  • vascular endothelial cells: 3.6 nCPM

Immune cell

  • total PBMC: 2.8 nTPM
  • neutrophil: 0.8 nTPM
  • basophil: 0.4 nTPM
  • naive CD4 T-cell: 0.2 nTPM
  • plasmacytoid DC: 0.2 nTPM
  • classical monocyte: 0.1 nTPM

Brain region

  • cerebellum: 48 nTPM
  • cerebral cortex: 43 nTPM
  • white matter: 40 nTPM
  • basal ganglia: 37 nTPM
  • pons: 35 nTPM
  • thalamus: 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)
1.51
gnomAD pLI
0
gnomAD missense Z
0.66
DepMap mean gene effect
0.09
DepMap dependency class
none

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

Cellular components

Protein domainsUniProt · Pfam · InterPro

KeywordsUniProt

Antibody and autoantibody relevanceSeroatlas analysis

Seroatlas reads TRAPPC3L as an antibody target. Whether an autoantibody or antibody against TRAPPC3L could matter depends on whether native TRAPPC3L is physically reachable, whether the body needs it intact, and whether it acts in a disease-relevant tissue.

TRAPPC3L 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 TRAPPC3L as an autoantigen. Seroatlas presents hypothesis context only and does not manufacture a known-serology claim.

Canonical record: https://seroatlas.com/gene/TRAPPC3L. 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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