Seroatlas · Human Serome Atlas

TRBV4-2

T cell receptor beta variable 4-2

Also known as: TCRBV4S2, TCRBV7S3A2T, TRBV42, TVB42_HUMAN

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

Protein identityUniProt · HPA

UniProt accession
A0A539
Gene
TRBV4-2
Ensembl
ENSG00000211745
Chromosome
7
Canonical length
114 aa
Protein class
Predicted intracellular proteins, T-cell receptor genes
Quaternary structure
Homodimer

OverviewNCBI Gene

Predicted to be involved in cell surface receptor signaling pathway. Predicted to be part of T cell receptor complex. Predicted to be active in plasma membrane. [provided by Alliance of Genome Resources, Apr 2025]

Canonical amino-acid sequenceUniProt

114 residues, UniProt reviewed canonical sequence.

>A0A539|TRBV4-2
     1  MGCRLLCCAV LCLLGAVPME TGVTQTPRHL VMGMTNKKSL KCEQHLGHNA MYWYKQSAKK
    61  PLELMFVYNF KEQTENNSVP SRFSPECPNS SHLFLHLHTL QPEDSALYLC ASSQ

LocalizationUniProt · AlphaFold · HPA

Whether an antibody against TRBV4-2 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
0
Highest tissue expression
20 nTPM

Expression across tissuesHPA

Tissue

  • thymus: 20 nTPM
  • lymph node: 4.7 nTPM
  • tonsil: 4.4 nTPM
  • spleen: 2.1 nTPM
  • small intestine: 1.4 nTPM
  • appendix: 1.3 nTPM

Single-cell type

  • late spermatids: 0.1 nCPM
  • t-cells: 0.1 nCPM
  • adipocytes: 0 nCPM
  • adrenal cortex cells: 0 nCPM
  • adrenal medulla cells: 0 nCPM
  • alveolar cells type 1: 0 nCPM

Immune cell

  • MAIT T-cell: 101 nTPM
  • T-reg: 45 nTPM
  • memory CD8 T-cell: 28 nTPM
  • memory CD4 T-cell: 26 nTPM
  • naive CD4 T-cell: 24 nTPM
  • naive CD8 T-cell: 15 nTPM

Brain region

  • cerebral cortex: 0.3 nTPM
  • basal ganglia: 0.1 nTPM
  • medulla oblongata: 0.1 nTPM
  • white matter: 0.1 nTPM
  • amygdala: 0 nTPM
  • cerebellum: 0 nTPM

OntologyGO

Biological processes

Cellular components

Protein domainsUniProt · Pfam · InterPro

KeywordsUniProt

Antibody and autoantibody relevanceSeroatlas analysis

Seroatlas reads TRBV4-2 as an antibody target. Whether an autoantibody or antibody against TRBV4-2 could matter depends on whether native TRBV4-2 is physically reachable, whether the body needs it intact, and whether it acts in a disease-relevant tissue.

TRBV4-2 is annotated at the cell surface, where native TRBV4-2 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 TRBV4-2 as an autoantigen. Seroatlas presents hypothesis context only and does not manufacture a known-serology claim.

Canonical record: https://seroatlas.com/gene/TRBV4-2. 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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