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DPPA3

Developmental pluripotency-associated protein 3

Also known as: DPPA3_HUMAN, Pgc7, Stella

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

Protein identityUniProt · HPA

UniProt accession
Q6W0C5
Gene
DPPA3
Ensembl
ENSG00000187569
Chromosome
12
Canonical length
159 aa
Protein class
Predicted intracellular proteins

OverviewNCBI Gene

This gene encodes a protein that in mice may function as a maternal factor during the preimplantation stage of development. In mice, this gene may play a role in transcriptional repression, cell division, and maintenance of cell pluripotentiality. In humans, related intronless loci are located on chromosomes 14 and X. [provided by RefSeq, Jul 2008]

Canonical amino-acid sequenceUniProt

159 residues, UniProt reviewed canonical sequence.

>Q6W0C5|DPPA3
     1  MDPSQFNPTY IPGSPQMLTE ENSRDDSGAS QISSETLIKN LSNLTINASS ESVSPLSEAL
    61  LRRESVGAAV LREIEDEWLY SRRGVRTLLS VQREKMARLR YMLLGGVRTH ERRPTNKEPK
   121  GVKKESRPFK CPCSFCVSNG WDPSENARIG NQDTKPLQP

LocalizationUniProt · AlphaFold · HPA

Whether an antibody against DPPA3 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)
0.6
Highest tissue expression
3 nTPM

Expression across tissuesHPA

Tissue

  • ovary: 3 nTPM
  • fallopian tube: 1 nTPM
  • testis: 1 nTPM
  • lung: 0.4 nTPM
  • duodenum: 0.2 nTPM
  • bone marrow: 0.1 nTPM

Single-cell type

  • oocytes: 903 nCPM
  • migrating cytotrophoblasts: 2.6 nCPM
  • undifferentiated spermatogonia: 2.4 nCPM
  • early primary spermatocytes: 1.5 nCPM
  • cytotrophoblasts: 1.1 nCPM
  • syncytiotrophoblasts: 0.8 nCPM

Immune cell

  • eosinophil: 0.5 nTPM
  • plasmacytoid DC: 0.5 nTPM
  • basophil: 0.1 nTPM
  • classical monocyte: 0 nTPM
  • gdT-cell: 0 nTPM
  • intermediate monocyte: 0 nTPM

Brain region

  • midbrain: 1.1 nTPM
  • cerebellum: 1 nTPM
  • medulla oblongata: 0.9 nTPM
  • cerebral cortex: 0.8 nTPM
  • pons: 0.8 nTPM
  • white matter: 0.8 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)
0.89
gnomAD pLI
0.22
gnomAD missense Z
-0.25
DepMap mean gene effect
-0.22
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

Antibody and autoantibody relevanceSeroatlas analysis

Seroatlas reads DPPA3 as an antibody target. Whether an autoantibody or antibody against DPPA3 could matter depends on whether native DPPA3 is physically reachable, whether the body needs it intact, and whether it acts in a disease-relevant tissue.

DPPA3 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 DPPA3 as an autoantigen. Seroatlas presents hypothesis context only and does not manufacture a known-serology claim.

Canonical record: https://seroatlas.com/gene/DPPA3. 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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