Seroatlas · Human Serome Atlas

AGL

Glycogen debranching enzyme

Also known as: GDE, GDE_HUMAN

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

Protein identityUniProt · HPA

UniProt accession
P35573
Gene
AGL
Ensembl
ENSG00000162688
Chromosome
1
Canonical length
1532 aa
Protein class
Disease related genes, Enzymes, Human disease related genes, Metabolic proteins, Plasma proteins, Potential drug targets, Predicted membrane proteins
Subcellular location
Nucleoplasm,Nuclear bodies,Cytosol

OverviewNCBI Gene

This gene encodes the glycogen debrancher enzyme which is involved in glycogen degradation. This enzyme has two independent catalytic activities which occur at different sites on the protein: a 4-alpha-glucotransferase activity and a amylo-1,6-glucosidase activity. Mutations in this gene are associated with glycogen storage disease although a wide range of enzymatic and clinical variability occurs which may be due to tissue-specific alternative splicing. Alternatively spliced transcripts encoding different isoforms have been described. [provided by RefSeq, Jul 2008]

Canonical amino-acid sequenceUniProt

1532 residues, UniProt reviewed canonical sequence.

>P35573|AGL
     1  MGHSKQIRIL LLNEMEKLEK TLFRLEQGYE LQFRLGPTLQ GKAVTVYTNY PFPGETFNRE
    61  KFRSLDWENP TEREDDSDKY CKLNLQQSGS FQYYFLQGNE KSGGGYIVVD PILRVGADNH
   121  VLPLDCVTLQ TFLAKCLGPF DEWESRLRVA KESGYNMIHF TPLQTLGLSR SCYSLANQLE
   181  LNPDFSRPNR KYTWNDVGQL VEKLKKEWNV ICITDVVYNH TAANSKWIQE HPECAYNLVN
   241  SPHLKPAWVL DRALWRFSCD VAEGKYKEKG IPALIENDHH MNSIRKIIWE DIFPKLKLWE
   301  FFQVDVNKAV EQFRRLLTQE NRRVTKSDPN QHLTIIQDPE YRRFGCTVDM NIALTTFIPH
   361  DKGPAAIEEC CNWFHKRMEE LNSEKHRLIN YHQEQAVNCL LGNVFYERLA GHGPKLGPVT
   421  RKHPLVTRYF TFPFEEIDFS MEESMIHLPN KACFLMAHNG WVMGDDPLRN FAEPGSEVYL
   481  RRELICWGDS VKLRYGNKPE DCPYLWAHMK KYTEITATYF QGVRLDNCHS TPLHVAEYML
   541  DAARNLQPNL YVVAELFTGS EDLDNVFVTR LGISSLIREA MSAYNSHEEG RLVYRYGGEP
   601  VGSFVQPCLR PLMPAIAHAL FMDITHDNEC PIVHRSAYDA LPSTTIVSMA CCASGSTRGY
   661  DELVPHQISV VSEERFYTKW NPEALPSNTG EVNFQSGIIA ARCAISKLHQ ELGAKGFIQV
   721  YVDQVDEDIV AVTRHSPSIH QSVVAVSRTA FRNPKTSFYS KEVPQMCIPG KIEEVVLEAR
   781  TIERNTKPYR KDENSINGTP DITVEIREHI QLNESKIVKQ AGVATKGPNE YIQEIEFENL
   841  SPGSVIIFRV SLDPHAQVAV GILRNHLTQF SPHFKSGSLA VDNADPILKI PFASLASRLT
   901  LAELNQILYR CESEEKEDGG GCYDIPNWSA LKYAGLQGLM SVLAEIRPKN DLGHPFCNNL
   961  RSGDWMIDYV SNRLISRSGT IAEVGKWLQA MFFYLKQIPR YLIPCYFDAI LIGAYTTLLD
  1021  TAWKQMSSFV QNGSTFVKHL SLGSVQLCGV GKFPSLPILS PALMDVPYRL NEITKEKEQC
  1081  CVSLAAGLPH FSSGIFRCWG RDTFIALRGI LLITGRYVEA RNIILAFAGT LRHGLIPNLL
  1141  GEGIYARYNC RDAVWWWLQC IQDYCKMVPN GLDILKCPVS RMYPTDDSAP LPAGTLDQPL
  1201  FEVIQEAMQK HMQGIQFRER NAGPQIDRNM KDEGFNITAG VDEETGFVYG GNRFNCGTWM
  1261  DKMGESDRAR NRGIPATPRD GSAVEIVGLS KSAVRWLLEL SKKNIFPYHE VTVKRHGKAI
  1321  KVSYDEWNRK IQDNFEKLFH VSEDPSDLNE KHPNLVHKRG IYKDSYGASS PWCDYQLRPN
  1381  FTIAMVVAPE LFTTEKAWKA LEIAEKKLLG PLGMKTLDPD DMVYCGIYDN ALDNDNYNLA
  1441  KGFNYHQGPE WLWPIGYFLR AKLYFSRLMG PETTAKTIVL VKNVLSRHYV HLERSPWKGL
  1501  PELTNENAQY CPFSCETQAW SIATILETLY DL

LocalizationUniProt · AlphaFold · HPA

Whether an antibody against AGL 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)
0.2
Highest tissue expression
241 nTPM

Expression across tissuesHPA

Tissue

  • skeletal muscle: 241 nTPM
  • tongue: 198 nTPM
  • liver: 40 nTPM
  • retina: 22 nTPM
  • heart muscle: 21 nTPM
  • parathyroid gland: 17 nTPM

Single-cell type

  • myonuclei: 1,199 nCPM
  • thymic myoid cells: 654 nCPM
  • müller glia: 239 nCPM
  • neutrophil progenitors: 185 nCPM
  • cytotrophoblasts: 185 nCPM
  • ocular epithelial cells: 173 nCPM

Immune cell

  • NK-cell: 2.5 nTPM
  • gdT-cell: 1.5 nTPM
  • eosinophil: 1.4 nTPM
  • MAIT T-cell: 1.4 nTPM
  • T-reg: 1.3 nTPM
  • memory CD4 T-cell: 1.1 nTPM

Brain region

  • cerebellum: 18 nTPM
  • choroid plexus: 16 nTPM
  • midbrain: 15 nTPM
  • white matter: 15 nTPM
  • hypothalamus: 14 nTPM
  • spinal cord: 14 nTPM

DiseaseUniProt · ClinVar · IEDB · PubMed

Four sources answering four different questions about AGL.

Disease | AllUniProt

Conditions AGL is implicated in, by any mechanism.

Disease | GeneticClinVar

628 pathogenic / likely-pathogenic of 3,056 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)
0.8
gnomAD pLI
0
gnomAD missense Z
-0.46
DepMap mean gene effect
-0.14
DepMap dependency class
selective

Cancer expressionTCGA

Across TCGA tumor cohorts, this protein is over-expressed in roughly 4% 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

  • Six-hairpin glycosidase superfamily
  • Glycoside hydrolase superfamily
  • Glycogen debranching enzyme, metazoa
  • Glycogen debranching enzyme
  • Eukaryotic glycogen debranching enzyme, N-terminal domain
  • Glycogen debranching enzyme, central domain
  • Glycogen debranching enzyme, C-terminal
  • Glycogen debranching enzyme, glucanotransferase domain
  • Amylo-alpha-1,6-glucosidase
  • N-terminal domain from the human glycogen debranching enzyme
  • Glycogen debranching enzyme, glucanotransferase domain
  • Central domain of human glycogen debranching enzyme

KeywordsUniProt

InteractionsUniProt · HPA

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

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

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