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TSGA10

Testis-specific gene 10 protein

Also known as: CEP4L, CT79, TSG10_HUMAN

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

Protein identityUniProt · HPA

UniProt accession
Q9BZW7
Gene
TSGA10
Ensembl
ENSG00000135951
Chromosome
2
Canonical length
698 aa
Protein class
Disease related genes, Human disease related genes, Predicted intracellular proteins
Subcellular location
Flagellar centriole

OverviewNCBI Gene

Predicted to enable structural molecule activity. Predicted to be involved in spermatogenesis. Predicted to act upstream of or within cell projection assembly. Predicted to be located in neuron projection; sperm fibrous sheath; and sperm principal piece. Predicted to be active in motile cilium. Implicated in spermatogenic failure 26. [provided by Alliance of Genome Resources, Apr 2025]

Canonical amino-acid sequenceUniProt

698 residues, UniProt reviewed canonical sequence.

>Q9BZW7|TSGA10
     1  MMRSRSKSPR RPSPTARGAN CDVELLKTTT RDREELKCML EKYERHLAEI QGNVKVLKSE
    61  RDKIFLLYEQ AQEEITRLRR EMMKSCKSPK STTAHAILRR VETERDVAFT DLRRMTTERD
   121  SLRERLKIAQ ETAFNEKAHL EQRIEELECT VHNLDDERME QMSNMTLMKE TISTVEKEMK
   181  SLARKAMDTE SELGRQKAEN NSLRLLYENT EKDLSDTQRH LAKKKYELQL TQEKIMCLDE
   241  KIDNFTRQNI AQREEISILG GTLNDLAKEK ECLQACLDKK SENIASLGES LAMKEKTISG
   301  MKNIIAEMEQ ASRQCTEALI VCEQDVSRMR RQLDETNDEL AQIARERDIL AHDNDNLQEQ
   361  FAKAKQENQA LSKKLNDTHN ELNDIKQKVQ DTNLEVNKLK NILKSEESEN RQMMEQLRKA
   421  NEDAENWENK ARQSEADNNT LKLELITAEA EGNRLKEKVD SLNREVEQHL NAERSYKSQI
   481  STLHKSVVKM EEELQKVQFE KVSALADLSS TRELCIKLDS SKELLNRQLV AKDQEIEMRE
   541  NELDSAHSEI ELLRSQMANE RISMQNLEAL LVANRDKEYQ SQIALQEKES EIQLLKEHLC
   601  LAENKMAIQS RDVAQFRNVV TQLEADLDIT KRQLGTERFE RERAVQELRR QNYSSNAYHM
   661  SSTMKPNTKC HSPERAHHRS PDRGLDRSLE ENLCYRDF

LocalizationUniProt · AlphaFold · HPA

Whether an antibody against TSGA10 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)
0.51
Highest tissue expression
48 nTPM

Expression across tissuesHPA

Tissue

  • testis: 48 nTPM
  • fallopian tube: 12 nTPM
  • choroid plexus: 3 nTPM
  • thyroid gland: 2.9 nTPM
  • kidney: 2.6 nTPM
  • pituitary gland: 2.5 nTPM

Single-cell type

  • ependymal cells: 770 nCPM
  • late primary spermatocytes: 533 nCPM
  • respiratory ciliated cells: 441 nCPM
  • early spermatids: 405 nCPM
  • late spermatids: 372 nCPM
  • fallopian tube ciliated cells: 367 nCPM

Immune cell

  • naive CD4 T-cell: 1.1 nTPM
  • NK-cell: 1 nTPM
  • memory CD8 T-cell: 0.8 nTPM
  • naive B-cell: 0.8 nTPM
  • MAIT T-cell: 0.7 nTPM
  • memory B-cell: 0.7 nTPM

Brain region

  • choroid plexus: 7.5 nTPM
  • midbrain: 7.2 nTPM
  • white matter: 7.2 nTPM
  • medulla oblongata: 7.1 nTPM
  • spinal cord: 5.5 nTPM
  • pons: 4.1 nTPM

DiseaseUniProt · ClinVar · IEDB · PubMed

Four sources answering four different questions about TSGA10.

Disease | AllUniProt

Conditions TSGA10 is implicated in, by any mechanism.

Disease | GeneticClinVar

1 pathogenic / likely-pathogenic of 113 ClinVar records.

Conditions with pathogenic or likely-pathogenic variants.

ReferencesPubMed · IEDB

Publications for TSGA10 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: AutoantibodyPubMed

2 publications

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. 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)
0.41
gnomAD pLI
0.11
gnomAD missense Z
0.75
DepMap mean gene effect
-0.25
DepMap dependency class
selective

Cancer expressionTCGA

Across TCGA tumor cohorts, this protein is over-expressed in roughly 5% 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

InteractionsUniProt · HPA

Protein binding partners of TSGA10 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 TSGA10 as an antibody target. Whether an autoantibody or antibody against TSGA10 could matter depends on whether native TSGA10 is physically reachable, whether the body needs it intact, and whether it acts in a disease-relevant tissue.

TSGA10 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 TSGA10 as an autoantigen. Seroatlas presents hypothesis context only and does not manufacture a known-serology claim.

Canonical record: https://seroatlas.com/gene/TSGA10. 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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