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TRBV5-6

T cell receptor beta variable 5-6

Also known as: TCRBV5S2, TCRBV5S6, TRBV56, TVB56_HUMAN

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

Protein identityUniProt · HPA

UniProt accession
A0A599
Gene
TRBV5-6
Ensembl
ENSG00000211728
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.

>A0A599|TRBV5-6
     1  MGPGLLCWAL LCLLGAGLVD AGVTQSPTHL IKTRGQQVTL RCSPKSGHDT VSWYQQALGQ
    61  GPQFIFQYYE EEERQRGNFP DRFSGHQFPN YSSELNVNAL LLGDSALYLC ASSL

LocalizationUniProt · AlphaFold · HPA

Whether an antibody against TRBV5-6 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
31 nTPM

Expression across tissuesHPA

Tissue

  • thymus: 31 nTPM
  • lymph node: 7.1 nTPM
  • tonsil: 5.5 nTPM
  • appendix: 2 nTPM
  • spleen: 1.7 nTPM
  • testis: 1.6 nTPM

Single-cell type

  • early spermatids: 1 nCPM
  • late spermatids: 0.8 nCPM
  • t-cells: 0.1 nCPM
  • adipocytes: 0 nCPM
  • adrenal cortex cells: 0 nCPM
  • adrenal medulla cells: 0 nCPM

Immune cell

  • T-reg: 66 nTPM
  • naive CD8 T-cell: 45 nTPM
  • memory CD4 T-cell: 40 nTPM
  • naive CD4 T-cell: 36 nTPM
  • memory CD8 T-cell: 23 nTPM
  • total PBMC: 17 nTPM

Brain region

  • basal ganglia: 0.4 nTPM
  • cerebral cortex: 0.4 nTPM
  • amygdala: 0.3 nTPM
  • thalamus: 0.3 nTPM
  • cerebellum: 0.2 nTPM
  • choroid plexus: 0.2 nTPM

OntologyGO

Biological processes

Cellular components

Protein domainsUniProt · Pfam · InterPro

KeywordsUniProt

Antibody and autoantibody relevanceSeroatlas analysis

Seroatlas reads TRBV5-6 as an antibody target. Whether an autoantibody or antibody against TRBV5-6 could matter depends on whether native TRBV5-6 is physically reachable, whether the body needs it intact, and whether it acts in a disease-relevant tissue.

TRBV5-6 is annotated at the cell surface, where native TRBV5-6 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 TRBV5-6 as an autoantigen. Seroatlas presents hypothesis context only and does not manufacture a known-serology claim.

Canonical record: https://seroatlas.com/gene/TRBV5-6. 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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