Seroatlas · Human Serome Atlas

APOA5

Apolipoprotein A-V

Also known as: APOA-V, APOA5_HUMAN, RAP3

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

Protein identityUniProt · HPA

UniProt accession
Q6Q788
Gene
APOA5
Ensembl
ENSG00000110243
Chromosome
11
Canonical length
366 aa
Protein class
Disease related genes, Human disease related genes, Plasma proteins, Predicted secreted proteins
Secretome location
Secreted to blood

OverviewNCBI Gene

The protein encoded by this gene is an apolipoprotein that plays an important role in regulating the plasma triglyceride levels, a major risk factor for coronary artery disease. It is a component of high density lipoprotein and is highly similar to a rat protein that is upregulated in response to liver injury. Mutations in this gene have been associated with hypertriglyceridemia and hyperlipoproteinemia type 5. This gene is located proximal to the apolipoprotein gene cluster on chromosome 11q23. Alternatively spliced transcript variants encoding the same protein have been identified. [provided by RefSeq, Oct 2009]

Canonical amino-acid sequenceUniProt

366 residues, UniProt reviewed canonical sequence.

>Q6Q788|APOA5
     1  MASMAAVLTW ALALLSAFSA TQARKGFWDY FSQTSGDKGR VEQIHQQKMA REPATLKDSL
    61  EQDLNNMNKF LEKLRPLSGS EAPRLPQDPV GMRRQLQEEL EEVKARLQPY MAEAHELVGW
   121  NLEGLRQQLK PYTMDLMEQV ALRVQELQEQ LRVVGEDTKA QLLGGVDEAW ALLQGLQSRV
   181  VHHTGRFKEL FHPYAESLVS GIGRHVQELH RSVAPHAPAS PARLSRCVQV LSRKLTLKAK
   241  ALHARIQQNL DQLREELSRA FAGTGTEEGA GPDPQMLSEE VRQRLQAFRQ DTYLQIAAFT
   301  RAIDQETEEV QQQLAPPPPG HSAFAPEFQQ TDSGKVLSKL QARLDDLWED ITHSLHDQGH
   361  SHLGDP

LocalizationUniProt · AlphaFold · HPA

Whether an antibody against APOA5 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
Secreted
Secreted
Yes
Transmembrane segments
0
Mean surface accessibility (rSASA)
0.33
Highest tissue expression
569 nTPM

Expression across tissuesHPA

Tissue

  • liver: 569 nTPM
  • pancreas: 2.5 nTPM
  • testis: 0.6 nTPM
  • small intestine: 0.3 nTPM
  • spleen: 0.3 nTPM
  • adipose tissue: 0.1 nTPM

Single-cell type

  • hepatocytes: 1,588 nCPM
  • kupffer cells: 4.1 nCPM
  • cholangiocytes: 3.3 nCPM
  • retinal horizontal cells: 2 nCPM
  • enterocytes: 1.7 nCPM
  • late spermatids: 1.1 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: 0.3 nTPM
  • medulla oblongata: 0.2 nTPM
  • pons: 0.2 nTPM
  • cerebral cortex: 0.1 nTPM
  • hypothalamus: 0.1 nTPM
  • white matter: 0.1 nTPM

DiseaseUniProt · ClinVar · IEDB · PubMed

Four sources answering four different questions about APOA5.

Disease | AllUniProt

Conditions APOA5 is implicated in, by any mechanism.

Disease | GeneticClinVar

14 pathogenic / likely-pathogenic of 344 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)
1.6
gnomAD pLI
0
gnomAD missense Z
0.86
DepMap mean gene effect
0.06
DepMap dependency class
none

Cancer expressionTCGA

Across TCGA tumor cohorts, this protein is over-expressed in roughly 2% 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

InteractionsUniProt · HPA

Protein binding partners of APOA5 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 APOA5 as an antibody target. Whether an autoantibody or antibody against APOA5 could matter depends on whether native APOA5 is physically reachable, whether the body needs it intact, and whether it acts in a disease-relevant tissue.

APOA5 is annotated as secreted, so native APOA5 circulates and is directly accessible to antibodies. Secreted and cell-surface proteins are the autoantibody targets most likely to act like drugs, blocking or depleting the native protein.

Annotation status

The present source text does not explicitly label APOA5 as an autoantigen. Seroatlas presents hypothesis context only and does not manufacture a known-serology claim.

Canonical record: https://seroatlas.com/gene/APOA5. 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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