Seroatlas · Human Serome Atlas

ACP4

Testicular acid phosphatase

Also known as: ACPT, PPAT_HUMAN

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

Protein identityUniProt · HPA

UniProt accession
Q9BZG2
Gene
ACP4
Ensembl
ENSG00000142513
Chromosome
19
Canonical length
426 aa
Protein class
Disease related genes, Enzymes, Human disease related genes, Metabolic proteins, Potential drug targets, Predicted membrane proteins
Subcellular location
Nuclear bodies,Plasma membrane,Microtubules
Quaternary structure
Homodimer

OverviewNCBI Gene

Acid phosphatases are enzymes capable of hydrolyzing orthophosphoric acid esters in an acid medium. This gene is up-regulated by androgens and is down-regulated by estrogens in the prostate cancer cell line. This gene exhibits a lower level of expression in testicular cancer tissues than in normal tissues. The protein encoded by this gene has structural similarity to prostatic and lysosomal acid phosphatases. Alternatively spliced transcript variants have been described, but their biological validity has not been determined. [provided by RefSeq, Jul 2008]

Canonical amino-acid sequenceUniProt

426 residues, UniProt reviewed canonical sequence.

>Q9BZG2|ACP4
     1  MAGLGFWGHP AGPLLLLLLL VLPPRALPEG PLVFVALVFR HGDRAPLASY PMDPHKEVAS
    61  TLWPRGLGQL TTEGVRQQLE LGRFLRSRYE AFLSPEYRRE EVYIRSTDFD RTLESAQANL
   121  AGLFPEAAPG SPEARWRPIP VHTVPVAEDK LLRFPMRSCP RYHELLREAT EAAEYQEALE
   181  GWTGFLSRLE NFTGLSLVGE PLRRAWKVLD TLMCQQAHGL PLPAWASPDV LRTLAQISAL
   241  DIGAHVGPPR AAEKAQLTGG ILLNAILANF SRVQRLGLPL KMVMYSAHDS TLLALQGALG
   301  LYDGHTPPYA ACLGFEFRKH LGNPAKDGGN VTVSLFYRND SAHLPLPLSL PGCPAPCPLG
   361  RFYQLTAPAR PPAHGVSCHG PYEAAIPPAP VVPLLAGAVA VLVALSLGLG LLAWRPGCLR
   421  ALGGPV

LocalizationUniProt · AlphaFold · HPA

Whether an antibody against ACP4 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
1
Mean surface accessibility (rSASA)
0.33
Highest tissue expression
3.5 nTPM

Expression across tissuesHPA

Tissue

  • testis: 3.5 nTPM
  • skin: 1.1 nTPM
  • bone marrow: 0.5 nTPM
  • hippocampal formation: 0.3 nTPM
  • amygdala: 0.2 nTPM
  • pancreas: 0.2 nTPM

Single-cell type

  • late spermatids: 567 nCPM
  • early spermatids: 76 nCPM
  • epicardial cells: 11 nCPM
  • late primary spermatocytes: 6.4 nCPM
  • oocytes: 4.6 nCPM
  • hematopoietic stem cells: 1.5 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

  • cerebellum: 4.8 nTPM
  • cerebral cortex: 3.6 nTPM
  • amygdala: 3.1 nTPM
  • hippocampal formation: 3.1 nTPM
  • basal ganglia: 3 nTPM
  • white matter: 2.5 nTPM

DiseaseUniProt · ClinVar · IEDB · PubMed

Four sources answering four different questions about ACP4.

Disease | AllUniProt

Conditions ACP4 is implicated in, by any mechanism.

Disease | GeneticClinVar

13 pathogenic / likely-pathogenic of 134 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)
1.51
gnomAD pLI
0
DepMap mean gene effect
0.05
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 ACP4 as an antibody target. Whether an autoantibody or antibody against ACP4 could matter depends on whether native ACP4 is physically reachable, whether the body needs it intact, and whether it acts in a disease-relevant tissue.

ACP4 is annotated at the cell surface, where native ACP4 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 ACP4 as an autoantigen. Seroatlas presents hypothesis context only and does not manufacture a known-serology claim.

Canonical record: https://seroatlas.com/gene/ACP4. 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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