BAGE5
B melanoma antigen 5
Also known as: BAGE5_HUMAN
Protein identityUniProt · HPA
OverviewNCBI Gene
No narrative summary is available for BAGE5 in this catalog release; identity and structured annotations are shown without generated factual claims.
Canonical amino-acid sequenceUniProt
43 residues, UniProt reviewed canonical sequence.
>Q86Y27|BAGE5
1 MAAGAVFLAL SAQLLQARLM KEESPVVSWR LEPEDGTALC FIFLocalizationUniProt · AlphaFold · HPA
Whether an antibody against BAGE5 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)
- 0.63
OntologyGO
Cellular components
Protein domainsUniProt · Pfam · InterPro
KeywordsUniProt
Antibody and autoantibody relevanceSeroatlas analysis
Seroatlas reads BAGE5 as an antibody target. Whether an autoantibody or antibody against BAGE5 could matter depends on whether native BAGE5 is physically reachable, whether the body needs it intact, and whether it acts in a disease-relevant tissue.
BAGE5 is annotated as secreted, so native BAGE5 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 BAGE5 as an autoantigen. Seroatlas presents hypothesis context only and does not manufacture a known-serology claim.
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