Seroatlas · Human Serome Atlas

BAG2

BAG family molecular chaperone regulator 2

Also known as: BAG2_HUMAN

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

Protein identityUniProt · HPA

UniProt accession
O95816
Gene
BAG2
Ensembl
ENSG00000112208
Chromosome
6
Canonical length
211 aa
Protein class
Plasma proteins, Predicted intracellular proteins
Subcellular location
Cytosol,Mid piece,Principal piece

OverviewNCBI Gene

BAG proteins compete with Hip for binding to the Hsc70/Hsp70 ATPase domain and promote substrate release. All the BAG proteins have an approximately 45-amino acid BAG domain near the C terminus but differ markedly in their N-terminal regions. The predicted BAG2 protein contains 211 amino acids. The BAG domains of BAG1, BAG2, and BAG3 interact specifically with the Hsc70 ATPase domain in vitro and in mammalian cells. All 3 proteins bind with high affinity to the ATPase domain of Hsc70 and inhibit its chaperone activity in a Hip-repressible manner. [provided by RefSeq, Jul 2008]

Canonical amino-acid sequenceUniProt

211 residues, UniProt reviewed canonical sequence.

>O95816|BAG2
     1  MAQAKINAKA NEGRFCRSSS MADRSSRLLE SLDQLELRVE ALREAATAVE QEKEILLEMI
    61  HSIQNSQDMR QISDGEREEL NLTANRLMGR TLTVEVSVET IRNPQQQESL KHATRIIDEV
   121  VNKFLDDLGN AKSHLMSLYS ACSSEVPHGP VDQKFQSIVI GCALEDQKKI KRRLETLLRN
   181  IENSDKAIKL LEHSKGAGSK TLQQNAESRF N

LocalizationUniProt · AlphaFold · HPA

Whether an antibody against BAG2 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)
0.42
Highest tissue expression
30 nTPM

Expression across tissuesHPA

Tissue

  • colon: 30 nTPM
  • smooth muscle: 27 nTPM
  • endometrium: 21 nTPM
  • urinary bladder: 18 nTPM
  • blood vessel: 16 nTPM
  • seminal vesicle: 15 nTPM

Single-cell type

  • late primary spermatocytes: 276 nCPM
  • smooth muscle cells: 203 nCPM
  • decidual stromal cells: 154 nCPM
  • early spermatids: 129 nCPM
  • cytotrophoblasts: 101 nCPM
  • oocytes: 92 nCPM

Immune cell

  • memory B-cell: 3.5 nTPM
  • naive CD4 T-cell: 3.4 nTPM
  • naive B-cell: 3 nTPM
  • naive CD8 T-cell: 2.9 nTPM
  • MAIT T-cell: 2.2 nTPM
  • NK-cell: 2.1 nTPM

Brain region

  • choroid plexus: 5.4 nTPM
  • white matter: 5 nTPM
  • cerebellum: 4.9 nTPM
  • midbrain: 4.9 nTPM
  • hypothalamus: 4.8 nTPM
  • basal ganglia: 4.5 nTPM

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)
1.15
gnomAD pLI
0.04
gnomAD missense Z
1.28
DepMap mean gene effect
-0.05
DepMap dependency class
selective

Cancer expressionTCGA

Across TCGA tumor cohorts, this protein is over-expressed in roughly 5% 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

  • BAG domain
  • BAG family molecular chaperone regulator 2

KeywordsUniProt

InteractionsUniProt · HPA

Protein binding partners of BAG2 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 BAG2 as an antibody target. Whether an autoantibody or antibody against BAG2 could matter depends on whether native BAG2 is physically reachable, whether the body needs it intact, and whether it acts in a disease-relevant tissue.

BAG2 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 BAG2 as an autoantigen. Seroatlas presents hypothesis context only and does not manufacture a known-serology claim.

Canonical record: https://seroatlas.com/gene/BAG2. 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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