Seroatlas · Human Serome Atlas

DAG1

Dystroglycan 1

Also known as: 156DAG, A3a, AGRNR, DAG, DAG1_HUMAN

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

Protein identityUniProt · HPA

UniProt accession
Q14118
Gene
DAG1
Ensembl
ENSG00000173402
Chromosome
3
Canonical length
895 aa
Protein class
Disease related genes, Human disease related genes, Plasma proteins, Potential drug targets, Predicted membrane proteins, Transporters
Subcellular location
Nucleoplasm,Vesicles,Plasma membrane
Secretome location
Intracellular and membrane

OverviewNCBI Gene

This gene encodes dystroglycan, a central component of dystrophin-glycoprotein complex that links the extracellular matrix and the cytoskeleton in the skeletal muscle. The encoded preproprotein undergoes O- and N-glycosylation, and proteolytic processing to generate alpha and beta subunits. Certain mutations in this gene are known to cause distinct forms of muscular dystrophy. Alternative splicing results in multiple transcript variants, all encoding the same protein. [provided by RefSeq, Nov 2015]

Canonical amino-acid sequenceUniProt

895 residues, UniProt reviewed canonical sequence.

>Q14118|DAG1
     1  MRMSVGLSLL LPLSGRTFLL LLSVVMAQSH WPSEPSEAVR DWENQLEASM HSVLSDLHEA
    61  VPTVVGIPDG TAVVGRSFRV TIPTDLIASS GDIIKVSAAG KEALPSWLHW DSQSHTLEGL
   121  PLDTDKGVHY ISVSATRLGA NGSHIPQTSS VFSIEVYPED HSELQSVRTA SPDPGEVVSS
   181  ACAADEPVTV LTVILDADLT KMTPKQRIDL LHRMRSFSEV ELHNMKLVPV VNNRLFDMSA
   241  FMAGPGNAKK VVENGALLSW KLGCSLNQNS VPDIHGVEAP AREGAMSAQL GYPVVGWHIA
   301  NKKPPLPKRV RRQIHATPTP VTAIGPPTTA IQEPPSRIVP TPTSPAIAPP TETMAPPVRD
   361  PVPGKPTVTI RTRGAIIQTP TLGPIQPTRV SEAGTTVPGQ IRPTMTIPGY VEPTAVATPP
   421  TTTTKKPRVS TPKPATPSTD STTTTTRRPT KKPRTPRPVP RVTTKVSITR LETASPPTRI
   481  RTTTSGVPRG GEPNQRPELK NHIDRVDAWV GTYFEVKIPS DTFYDHEDTT TDKLKLTLKL
   541  REQQLVGEKS WVQFNSNSQL MYGLPDSSHV GKHEYFMHAT DKGGLSAVDA FEIHVHRRPQ
   601  GDRAPARFKA KFVGDPALVL NDIHKKIALV KKLAFAFGDR NCSTITLQNI TRGSIVVEWT
   661  NNTLPLEPCP KEQIAGLSRR IAEDDGKPRP AFSNALEPDF KATSITVTGS GSCRHLQFIP
   721  VVPPRRVPSE APPTEVPDRD PEKSSEDDVY LHTVIPAVVV AAILLIAGII AMICYRKKRK
   781  GKLTLEDQAT FIKKGVPIIF ADELDDSKPP PSSSMPLILQ EEKAPLPPPE YPNQSVPETT
   841  PLNQDTMGEY TPLRDEDPNA PPYQPPPPFT APMEGKGSRP KNMTPYRSPP PYVPP

LocalizationUniProt · AlphaFold · HPA

Whether an antibody against DAG1 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)
0.48
Highest tissue expression
94 nTPM

Expression across tissuesHPA

Tissue

  • tongue: 94 nTPM
  • skeletal muscle: 88 nTPM
  • placenta: 74 nTPM
  • heart muscle: 68 nTPM
  • pancreas: 52 nTPM
  • smooth muscle: 45 nTPM

Single-cell type

  • myonuclei: 286 nCPM
  • myosatellite cells: 229 nCPM
  • schwann cells: 221 nCPM
  • thymic myoid cells: 186 nCPM
  • podocytes: 172 nCPM
  • extravillous trophoblasts: 165 nCPM

Immune cell

  • non-classical monocyte: 2.3 nTPM
  • intermediate monocyte: 1.3 nTPM
  • total PBMC: 1.3 nTPM
  • plasmacytoid DC: 1.1 nTPM
  • memory B-cell: 1 nTPM
  • classical monocyte: 0.9 nTPM

Brain region

  • medulla oblongata: 59 nTPM
  • thalamus: 58 nTPM
  • cerebral cortex: 57 nTPM
  • basal ganglia: 55 nTPM
  • midbrain: 54 nTPM
  • amygdala: 54 nTPM

DiseaseUniProt · ClinVar · IEDB · PubMed

Four sources answering four different questions about DAG1.

Disease | AllUniProt

Conditions DAG1 is implicated in, by any mechanism.

Disease | GeneticClinVar

22 pathogenic / likely-pathogenic of 766 ClinVar records.

Conditions with pathogenic or likely-pathogenic variants.

Disease | ImmuneIEDB

Conditions an epitope on DAG1 was assayed in.

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)
0.3
gnomAD pLI
0.98
gnomAD missense Z
0.63
DepMap mean gene effect
-0.11
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

InteractionsUniProt · HPA

Protein binding partners of DAG1 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 DAG1 as an antibody target. Whether an autoantibody or antibody against DAG1 could matter depends on whether native DAG1 is physically reachable, whether the body needs it intact, and whether it acts in a disease-relevant tissue.

DAG1 is annotated at the cell surface, where native DAG1 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 DAG1 as an autoantigen. Seroatlas presents hypothesis context only and does not manufacture a known-serology claim.

Canonical record: https://seroatlas.com/gene/DAG1. 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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