Seroatlas · Human Serome Atlas

ACOX2

Peroxisomal acyl-coenzyme A oxidase 2

Also known as: ACOX2_HUMAN, BRCACOX, BRCOX, THCCox

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

Protein identityUniProt · HPA

UniProt accession
Q99424
Gene
ACOX2
Ensembl
ENSG00000168306
Chromosome
3
Canonical length
681 aa
Protein class
Disease related genes, Enzymes, Human disease related genes, Metabolic proteins, Potential drug targets, Predicted intracellular proteins
Subcellular location
Vesicles,Cytosol
Quaternary structure
Homodimer

OverviewNCBI Gene

The product of this gene belongs to the acyl-CoA oxidase family. It encodes the branched-chain acyl-CoA oxidase which is involved in the degradation of long branched fatty acids and bile acid intermediates in peroxisomes. Deficiency of this enzyme results in the accumulation of branched fatty acids and bile acid intermediates, and may lead to Zellweger syndrome, severe cognitive disability, and death in children. [provided by RefSeq, Mar 2009]

Canonical amino-acid sequenceUniProt

681 residues, UniProt reviewed canonical sequence.

>Q99424|ACOX2
     1  MGSPVHRVSL GDTWSRQMHP DIESERYMQS FDVERLTNIL DGGAQNTALR RKVESIIHSY
    61  PEFSCKDNYF MTQNERYKAA MRRAFHIRLI ARRLGWLEDG RELGYAYRAL SGDVALNIHR
   121  VFVRALRSLG SEEQIAKWDP LCKNIQIIAT YAQTELGHGT YLQGLETEAT YDAATQEFVI
   181  HSPTLTATKW WPGDLGRSAT HALVQAQLIC SGARRGMHAF IVPIRSLQDH TPLPGIIIGD
   241  IGPKMDFDQT DNGFLQLNHV RVPRENMLSR FAQVLPDGTY VKLGTAQSNY LPMVVVRVEL
   301  LSGEILPILQ KACVIAMRYS VIRRQSRLRP SDPEAKVLDY QTQQQKLFPQ LAISYAFHFL
   361  AVSLLEFFQH SYTAILNQDF SFLPELHALS TGMKAMMSEF CTQGAEMCRR ACGGHGYSKL
   421  SGLPSLVTKL SASCTYEGEN TVLYLQVARF LVKSYLQTQM SPGSTPQRSL SPSVAYLTAP
   481  DLARCPAQRA ADFLCPELYT TAWAHVAVRL IKDSVQHLQT LTQSGADQHE AWNQTTVIHL
   541  QAAKVHCYYV TVKGFTEALE KLENEPAIQQ VLKRLCDLHA IHGILTNSGD FLHDAFLSGA
   601  QVDMARTAYL DLLRLIRKDA ILLTDAFDFT DQCLNSALGC YDGNVYERLF QWAQKSPTNT
   661  QENPAYEEYI RPLLQSWRSK L

LocalizationUniProt · AlphaFold · HPA

Whether an antibody against ACOX2 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)
0.23
Highest tissue expression
166 nTPM

Expression across tissuesHPA

Tissue

  • liver: 166 nTPM
  • kidney: 39 nTPM
  • duodenum: 24 nTPM
  • small intestine: 20 nTPM
  • choroid plexus: 20 nTPM
  • tongue: 16 nTPM

Single-cell type

  • hepatocytes: 123 nCPM
  • enterocytes: 39 nCPM
  • medullary thymic epithelial cells: 38 nCPM
  • adipocytes: 37 nCPM
  • choroid plexus epithelial cells: 35 nCPM
  • proximal tubule cells: 31 nCPM

Immune cell

  • basophil: 0 nTPM
  • classical monocyte: 0 nTPM
  • eosinophil: 0 nTPM
  • gdT-cell: 0 nTPM
  • intermediate monocyte: 0 nTPM
  • MAIT T-cell: 0 nTPM

Brain region

  • choroid plexus: 31 nTPM
  • medulla oblongata: 6.6 nTPM
  • midbrain: 5.5 nTPM
  • thalamus: 5.5 nTPM
  • spinal cord: 5 nTPM
  • basal ganglia: 4.8 nTPM

DiseaseUniProt · ClinVar · IEDB · PubMed

Four sources answering four different questions about ACOX2.

Disease | AllUniProt

Conditions ACOX2 is implicated in, by any mechanism.

Disease | GeneticClinVar

2 pathogenic / likely-pathogenic of 337 ClinVar records.

Conditions with pathogenic or likely-pathogenic variants.

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)
0.87
gnomAD pLI
0
gnomAD missense Z
0.5
DepMap mean gene effect
-0.04
DepMap dependency class
selective

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

Molecular functions

Cellular components

Protein domainsUniProt · Pfam · InterPro

KeywordsUniProt

Antibody and autoantibody relevanceSeroatlas analysis

Seroatlas reads ACOX2 as an antibody target. Whether an autoantibody or antibody against ACOX2 could matter depends on whether native ACOX2 is physically reachable, whether the body needs it intact, and whether it acts in a disease-relevant tissue.

ACOX2 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 ACOX2 as an autoantigen. Seroatlas presents hypothesis context only and does not manufacture a known-serology claim.

Canonical record: https://seroatlas.com/gene/ACOX2. 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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