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DNAJB5

DnaJ homolog subfamily B member 5

Also known as: DNJB5_HUMAN, Hsc40

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

Protein identityUniProt · HPA

UniProt accession
O75953
Gene
DNAJB5
Ensembl
ENSG00000137094
Chromosome
9
Canonical length
348 aa
Protein class
Predicted intracellular proteins
Subcellular location
Nucleoplasm,Cytosol

OverviewNCBI Gene

This gene encodes a member of the DNAJ heat shock protein 40 family of co-chaperone proteins. The encoded protein contains an N-terminal DNAJ domain and a C-terminal substrate binding domain but lacks the cysteine-rich domain found in other DNAJ family members. In mice, a multi-protein complex containing this protein, thioredoxin 1, and histone deacetylase 4, serves as a master negative regulator of cardiac hypertrophy. [provided by RefSeq, Mar 2017]

Canonical amino-acid sequenceUniProt

348 residues, UniProt reviewed canonical sequence.

>O75953|DNAJB5
     1  MGKDYYKILG IPSGANEDEI KKAYRKMALK YHPDKNKEPN AEEKFKEIAE AYDVLSDPKK
    61  RGLYDQYGEE GLKTGGGTSG GSSGSFHYTF HGDPHATFAS FFGGSNPFDI FFASSRSTRP
   121  FSGFDPDDMD VDEDEDPFGA FGRFGFNGLS RGPRRAPEPL YPRRKVQDPP VVHELRVSLE
   181  EIYHGSTKRM KITRRRLNPD GRTVRTEDKI LHIVIKRGWK EGTKITFPKE GDATPDNIPA
   241  DIVFVLKDKP HAHFRRDGTN VLYSALISLK EALCGCTVNI PTIDGRVIPL PCNDVIKPGT
   301  VKRLRGEGLP FPKVPTQRGD LIVEFKVRFP DRLTPQTRQI LKQHLPCS

LocalizationUniProt · AlphaFold · HPA

Whether an antibody against DNAJB5 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)
0.4
Highest tissue expression
204 nTPM

Expression across tissuesHPA

Tissue

  • tongue: 204 nTPM
  • skeletal muscle: 154 nTPM
  • heart muscle: 61 nTPM
  • smooth muscle: 60 nTPM
  • colon: 59 nTPM
  • blood vessel: 54 nTPM

Single-cell type

  • epicardial cells: 55 nCPM
  • smooth muscle cells: 38 nCPM
  • cardiomyocytes: 28 nCPM
  • vascular smooth muscle cells: 22 nCPM
  • lactotrophs: 19 nCPM
  • epididymal principal cells: 18 nCPM

Immune cell

  • myeloid DC: 5.5 nTPM
  • neutrophil: 5.2 nTPM
  • classical monocyte: 1 nTPM
  • T-reg: 1 nTPM
  • MAIT T-cell: 0.9 nTPM
  • naive CD8 T-cell: 0.7 nTPM

Brain region

  • cerebral cortex: 33 nTPM
  • hippocampal formation: 25 nTPM
  • cerebellum: 23 nTPM
  • midbrain: 20 nTPM
  • medulla oblongata: 18 nTPM
  • hypothalamus: 17 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)
0.59
gnomAD pLI
0.21
gnomAD missense Z
3.15
DepMap mean gene effect
0.04
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

KeywordsUniProt

InteractionsUniProt · HPA

Protein binding partners of DNAJB5 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 DNAJB5 as an antibody target. Whether an autoantibody or antibody against DNAJB5 could matter depends on whether native DNAJB5 is physically reachable, whether the body needs it intact, and whether it acts in a disease-relevant tissue.

DNAJB5 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 DNAJB5 as an autoantigen. Seroatlas presents hypothesis context only and does not manufacture a known-serology claim.

Canonical record: https://seroatlas.com/gene/DNAJB5. 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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