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Human Gene TNFRSF13C (ENST00000291232.5) from GENCODE V50
  Description: TNF receptor superfamily member 13C (from RefSeq NM_052945.4)
Gencode Transcript: ENST00000291232.5
Gencode Gene: ENSG00000159958.8
Transcript (Including UTRs)
   Position: hg38 chr22:41,922,032-41,926,806 Size: 4,775 Total Exon Count: 3 Strand: -
Coding Region
   Position: hg38 chr22:41,925,367-41,926,773 Size: 1,407 Coding Exon Count: 3 

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Data last updated at UCSC: 2026-07-12 09:30:09

-  Comments and Description Text from UniProtKB
  ID: TR13C_HUMAN
DESCRIPTION: RecName: Full=Tumor necrosis factor receptor superfamily member 13C; AltName: Full=B-cell-activating factor receptor; AltName: Full=BAFF receptor; Short=BAFF-R; AltName: Full=BLyS receptor 3; AltName: CD_antigen=CD268;
FUNCTION: B-cell receptor specific for TNFSF13B/TALL1/BAFF/BLyS. Promotes the survival of mature B-cells and the B-cell response.
SUBCELLULAR LOCATION: Membrane; Single-pass type III membrane protein (Probable).
TISSUE SPECIFICITY: Highly expressed in spleen and lymph node, and in resting B-cells. Detected at lower levels in activated B-cells, resting CD4+ T-cells, in thymus and peripheral blood leukocytes.
DISEASE: Defects in TNFRSF13C are the cause of immunodeficiency common variable type 4 (CVID4) [MIM:613494]; also called antibody deficiency due to BAFFR defect. CVID4 is a primary immunodeficiency characterized by antibody deficiency, hypogammaglobulinemia, recurrent bacterial infections and an inability to mount an antibody response to antigen. The defect results from a failure of B-cell differentiation and impaired secretion of immunoglobulins; the numbers of circulating B-cells is usually in the normal range, but can be low.
SIMILARITY: Contains 1 TNFR-Cys repeat.
WEB RESOURCE: Name=GeneReviews; URL="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/GeneTests/lab/gene/TNFRSF13C";

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-  MalaCards Disease Associations
  MalaCards Gene Search: TNFRSF13C
Diseases sorted by gene-association score: immunodeficiency, common variable, 4* (919), tnfrsf13c-related common variable immune deficiency* (500), common variable immunodeficiency* (485), primary agammaglobulinemia (20), b cell deficiency (12), follicular lymphoma (8), cryptococcal meningitis (7), systemic lupus erythematosus (7), hypersensitivity reaction type ii disease (3), chronic lymphocytic leukemia (2), lymphoma, non-hodgkin (2)
* = Manually curated disease association

-  Comparative Toxicogenomics Database (CTD)
  The following chemicals interact with this gene

-  RNA-Seq Expression Data from GTEx (53 Tissues, 570 Donors)
  Highest median expression: 51.60 RPKM in Cells - EBV-transformed lymphocytes
Total median expression: 101.20 RPKM



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-  mRNA Secondary Structure of 3' and 5' UTRs
 
RegionFold EnergyBasesEnergy/Base
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5' UTR -11.5033-0.348 Picture PostScript Text
3' UTR -1199.503335-0.360 Picture PostScript Text

The RNAfold program from the Vienna RNA Package is used to perform the secondary structure predictions and folding calculations. The estimated folding energy is in kcal/mol. The more negative the energy, the more secondary structure the RNA is likely to have.

-  Protein Domain and Structure Information
  InterPro Domains: Graphical view of domain structure
IPR022338 - TNFR_13C
IPR015336 - TNFR_13C_TALL-1-bd

Pfam Domains:
PF09256 - BAFF-R, TALL-1 binding

Protein Data Bank (PDB) 3-D Structure
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ModBase Predicted Comparative 3D Structure on Q96RJ3
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-  Orthologous Genes in Other Species
  Orthologies between human, mouse, and rat are computed by taking the best BLASTP hit, and filtering out non-syntenic hits. For more distant species reciprocal-best BLASTP hits are used. Note that the absence of an ortholog in the table below may reflect incomplete annotations in the other species rather than a true absence of the orthologous gene.
MouseRatZebrafishD. melanogasterC. elegansS. cerevisiae
Genome BrowserGenome BrowserNo orthologNo orthologNo orthologNo ortholog
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-  Gene Ontology (GO) Annotations with Structured Vocabulary
  Biological Process:
GO:0001782 B cell homeostasis
GO:0002250 adaptive immune response
GO:0002376 immune system process
GO:0002636 positive regulation of germinal center formation
GO:0030890 positive regulation of B cell proliferation
GO:0031295 T cell costimulation
GO:0031296 B cell costimulation
GO:0033209 tumor necrosis factor-mediated signaling pathway
GO:0042102 positive regulation of T cell proliferation
GO:0045078 positive regulation of interferon-gamma biosynthetic process
GO:0050776 regulation of immune response

Cellular Component:
GO:0005886 plasma membrane
GO:0009897 external side of plasma membrane
GO:0016020 membrane
GO:0016021 integral component of membrane


-  Descriptions from all associated GenBank mRNAs
  BC156502 - Synthetic construct Homo sapiens clone IMAGE:100063133, MGC:190700 transcription factor 20 (AR1) (TCF20) mRNA, encodes complete protein.
AK128410 - Homo sapiens cDNA FLJ46553 fis, clone THYMU3038879.
JD228793 - Sequence 209817 from Patent EP1572962.
JD275874 - Sequence 256898 from Patent EP1572962.
JD419739 - Sequence 400763 from Patent EP1572962.
JD188440 - Sequence 169464 from Patent EP1572962.
HZ408431 - JP 2015528002-A/1028: CHIRAL CONTROL.
LG051765 - KR 1020150036642-A/1031: CHIRAL CONTROL.
HZ480389 - JP 2015535430-A/895: TERMINALLY MODIFIED RNA.
HZ790320 - JP 2016504050-A/2065: SIGNAL-SENSOR POLYNUCLEOTIDES FOR THE ALTERATION OF CELLULAR PHENOTYPES.
JC513052 - Sequence 3305 from Patent WO2014113089.
LF160469 - JP 2016513950-A/535: Oligomers with improved off-target profile.
LP951620 - Sequence 126 from Patent WO2017157650.
LQ070640 - Sequence 964 from Patent EP2964234.
MA644141 - JP 2017113010-A/2065: SIGNAL-SENSOR POLYNUCLEOTIDES FOR THE ALTERATION OF CELLULAR PHENOTYPES.
MA732025 - JP 2017140048-A/895: TERMINALLY MODIFIED RNA.
JD309075 - Sequence 290099 from Patent EP1572962.
JD095170 - Sequence 76194 from Patent EP1572962.
JD457273 - Sequence 438297 from Patent EP1572962.
JD200211 - Sequence 181235 from Patent EP1572962.
JD270485 - Sequence 251509 from Patent EP1572962.
JD293173 - Sequence 274197 from Patent EP1572962.
JD197523 - Sequence 178547 from Patent EP1572962.
JD318206 - Sequence 299230 from Patent EP1572962.
JD330992 - Sequence 312016 from Patent EP1572962.
JD330993 - Sequence 312017 from Patent EP1572962.
JD409402 - Sequence 390426 from Patent EP1572962.
JD242704 - Sequence 223728 from Patent EP1572962.
JD123177 - Sequence 104201 from Patent EP1572962.
JD514082 - Sequence 495106 from Patent EP1572962.
JD151010 - Sequence 132034 from Patent EP1572962.
JD139546 - Sequence 120570 from Patent EP1572962.
JD140625 - Sequence 121649 from Patent EP1572962.
JD198435 - Sequence 179459 from Patent EP1572962.
JD523604 - Sequence 504628 from Patent EP1572962.
JD153215 - Sequence 134239 from Patent EP1572962.
AF373846 - Homo sapiens BAFF receptor mRNA, complete cds.
AX772914 - Sequence 1 from Patent WO03045422.
AX800072 - Sequence 1 from Patent WO03055509.
JD263878 - Sequence 244902 from Patent EP1572962.
JD162860 - Sequence 143884 from Patent EP1572962.
JD389220 - Sequence 370244 from Patent EP1572962.
JD450980 - Sequence 432004 from Patent EP1572962.
JD338393 - Sequence 319417 from Patent EP1572962.
BC105123 - Homo sapiens tumor necrosis factor receptor superfamily, member 13C, mRNA (cDNA clone MGC:132783 IMAGE:8144126), complete cds.
BC112030 - Homo sapiens tumor necrosis factor receptor superfamily, member 13C, mRNA (cDNA clone MGC:138235 IMAGE:8327498), complete cds.
JD455584 - Sequence 436608 from Patent EP1572962.
JD452832 - Sequence 433856 from Patent EP1572962.
JD458903 - Sequence 439927 from Patent EP1572962.
BC111585 - Synthetic construct Homo sapiens clone IMAGE:40080564, MGC:133427 TNFRSF13C protein (TNFRSF13C) mRNA, encodes complete protein.
AB590047 - Synthetic construct DNA, clone: pFN21AB7182, Homo sapiens TNFRSF13C gene for tumor necrosis factor receptor superfamily, member 13C, without stop codon, in Flexi system.
MA801194 - JP 2018183181-A/2065: SIGNAL-SENSOR POLYNUCLEOTIDES FOR THE ALTERATION OF CELLULAR PHENOTYPES.
MP114335 - Sequence 44 from Patent WO2019053235.
MP114324 - Sequence 33 from Patent WO2019053235.
MP168066 - Sequence 73 from Patent EP3469101.
MB408318 - WO 2019163900-A/25: Method of analysis and diagnose using RNA modification.
MB481493 - JP 2019528758-A/73: Methods And Compositions For Prostate Cancer Diagnosis And Treatment.

-  Biochemical and Signaling Pathways
  KEGG - Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes
hsa04060 - Cytokine-cytokine receptor interaction
hsa04672 - Intestinal immune network for IgA production
hsa05340 - Primary immunodeficiency

BioCarta from NCI Cancer Genome Anatomy Project
h_tall1Pathway - TACI and BCMA stimulation of B cell immune responses.

Reactome (by CSHL, EBI, and GO)

Protein Q96RJ3 (Reactome details) participates in the following event(s):

R-HSA-5676599 sBAFF trimer binds BAFFR
R-HSA-5676596 TRAF3 binds BAFFR:BAFF
R-HSA-5676594 TNF receptor superfamily (TNFSF) members mediating non-canonical NF-kB pathway
R-HSA-5668541 TNFR2 non-canonical NF-kB pathway
R-HSA-1280215 Cytokine Signaling in Immune system
R-HSA-168256 Immune System

-  Other Names for This Gene
  Alternate Gene Symbols: BAFFR, BR3, ENST00000291232.1, ENST00000291232.2, ENST00000291232.3, ENST00000291232.4, NM_052945, Q96RJ3, TR13C_HUMAN, uc003bbl.1, uc003bbl.2, uc003bbl.3, uc003bbl.4
UCSC ID: ENST00000291232.5
RefSeq Accession: NM_052945.4
Protein: Q96RJ3 (aka TR13C_HUMAN or T13C_HUMAN)
CCDS: CCDS14024.1

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