Seroatlas · Human Serome Atlas

DSE

Dermatan-sulfate epimerase

Also known as: DS-Epi1, DSE_HUMAN, DSEPI, SART2

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

Protein identityUniProt · HPA

UniProt accession
Q9UL01
Gene
DSE
Ensembl
ENSG00000111817
Chromosome
6
Canonical length
958 aa
Protein class
Disease related genes, Enzymes, Human disease related genes, Metabolic proteins, Potential drug targets, Predicted intracellular proteins, Predicted membrane proteins
Secretome location
Intracellular and membrane

OverviewNCBI Gene

The protein encoded by this gene is a tumor-rejection antigen. It is localized to the endoplasmic reticulum and functions to convert D-glucuronic acid to L-iduronic acid during the biosynthesis of dermatan sulfate. This antigen possesses tumor epitopes capable of inducing HLA-A24-restricted and tumor-specific cytotoxic T lymphocytes in cancer patients and may be useful for specific immunotherapy. Mutations in this gene cause inmusculocontractural Ehlers-Danlos syndrome. Alternative splicing results in multiple transcript variants. A related pseudogene has been identified on chromosome 9, and a paralogous gene exists on chromosome 18. [provided by RefSeq, Apr 2016]

Canonical amino-acid sequenceUniProt

958 residues, UniProt reviewed canonical sequence.

>Q9UL01|DSE
     1  MRTHTRGAPS VFFIYLLCFV SAYITDENPE VMIPFTNANY DSHPMLYFSR AEVAELQLRA
    61  ASSHEHIAAR LTEAVHTMLS SPLEYLPPWD PKDYSARWNE IFGNNLGALA MFCVLYPENI
   121  EARDMAKDYM ERMAAQPSWL VKDAPWDEVP LAHSLVGFAT AYDFLYNYLS KTQQEKFLEV
   181  IANASGYMYE TSYRRGWGFQ YLHNHQPTNC MALLTGSLVL MNQGYLQEAY LWTKQVLTIM
   241  EKSLVLLREV TDGSLYEGVA YGSYTTRSLF QYMFLVQRHF NINHFGHPWL KQHFAFMYRT
   301  ILPGFQRTVA IADSNYNWFY GPESQLVFLD KFVMRNGSGN WLADQIRRNR VVEGPGTPSK
   361  GQRWCTLHTE FLWYDGSLKS VPPPDFGTPT LHYFEDWGVV TYGSALPAEI NRSFLSFKSG
   421  KLGGRAIYDI VHRNKYKDWI KGWRNFNAGH EHPDQNSFTF APNGVPFITE ALYGPKYTFF
   481  NNVLMFSPAV SKSCFSPWVG QVTEDCSSKW SKYKHDLAAS CQGRVVAAEE KNGVVFIRGE
   541  GVGAYNPQLN LKNVQRNLIL LHPQLLLLVD QIHLGEESPL ETAASFFHNV DVPFEETVVD
   601  GVHGAFIRQR DGLYKMYWMD DTGYSEKATF ASVTYPRGYP YNGTNYVNVT MHLRSPITRA
   661  AYLFIGPSID VQSFTVHGDS QQLDVFIATS KHAYATYLWT GEATGQSAFA QVIADRHKIL
   721  FDRNSAIKSS IVPEVKDYAA IVEQNLQHFK PVFQLLEKQI LSRVRNTASF RKTAERLLRF
   781  SDKRQTEEAI DRIFAISQQQ QQQSKSKKNR RAGKRYKFVD AVPDIFAQIE VNEKKIRQKA
   841  QILAQKELPI DEDEEMKDLL DFADVTYEKH KNGGLIKGRF GQARMVTTTH SRAPSLSASY
   901  TRLFLILNIA IFFVMLAMQL TYFQRAQSLH GQRCLYAVLL IDSCILLWLY SSCSQSQC

LocalizationUniProt · AlphaFold · HPA

Whether an antibody against DSE 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
Other membrane
Secreted
No
Transmembrane segments
2
Mean surface accessibility (rSASA)
0.25
Highest tissue expression
25 nTPM

Expression across tissuesHPA

Tissue

  • appendix: 25 nTPM
  • adipose tissue: 25 nTPM
  • ovary: 23 nTPM
  • placenta: 22 nTPM
  • urinary bladder: 18 nTPM
  • spleen: 18 nTPM

Single-cell type

  • late spermatids: 523 nCPM
  • ependymal cells: 395 nCPM
  • neutrophils: 303 nCPM
  • early spermatids: 298 nCPM
  • choroid plexus epithelial cells: 272 nCPM
  • thyrotrophs: 226 nCPM

Immune cell

  • myeloid DC: 5.9 nTPM
  • plasmacytoid DC: 2.7 nTPM
  • intermediate monocyte: 2.5 nTPM
  • naive B-cell: 2.1 nTPM
  • classical monocyte: 2 nTPM
  • memory B-cell: 2 nTPM

Brain region

  • choroid plexus: 21 nTPM
  • thalamus: 19 nTPM
  • medulla oblongata: 14 nTPM
  • white matter: 12 nTPM
  • midbrain: 12 nTPM
  • pons: 11 nTPM

DiseaseUniProt · ClinVar · IEDB · PubMed

Four sources answering four different questions about DSE.

Disease | AllUniProt

Conditions DSE is implicated in, by any mechanism.

Disease | GeneticClinVar

15 pathogenic / likely-pathogenic of 495 ClinVar records.

Conditions with pathogenic or likely-pathogenic variants.

Disease | ImmuneIEDB

Conditions an epitope on DSE 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)
0.38
gnomAD pLI
0.63
gnomAD missense Z
2.03
DepMap mean gene effect
0.15
DepMap dependency class
none

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

Antibody and autoantibody relevanceSeroatlas analysis

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

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

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