Seroatlas · Human Serome Atlas

EPHX3

Epoxide hydrolase 3

Also known as: ABHD9, EPHX3_HUMAN, FLJ22408

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

Protein identityUniProt · HPA

UniProt accession
Q9H6B9
Gene
EPHX3
Ensembl
ENSG00000105131
Chromosome
19
Canonical length
360 aa
Protein class
Enzymes, Predicted intracellular proteins
Subcellular location
Nucleoplasm

OverviewNCBI Gene

Enables epoxide hydrolase activity. Involved in epoxide metabolic process. Located in intracellular membrane-bounded organelle and membrane. [provided by Alliance of Genome Resources, Apr 2025]

Canonical amino-acid sequenceUniProt

360 residues, UniProt reviewed canonical sequence.

>Q9H6B9|EPHX3
     1  MPELVVTALL APSRLSLKLL RAFMWSLVFS VALVAAAVYG CIALTHVLCR PRRGCCGRRR
    61  SASPACLSDP SLGEHGFLNL KSSGLRLHYV SAGRGNGPLM LFLHGFPENW FSWRYQLREF
   121  QSRFHVVAVD LRGYGPSDAP RDVDCYTIDL LLVDIKDVIL GLGYSKCILV AHDWGALLAW
   181  HFSIYYPSLV ERMVVVSGAP MSVYQDYSLH HISQFFRSHY MFLFQLPWLP EKLLSMSDFQ
   241  ILKTTLTHRK TGIPCLTPSE LEAFLYNFSQ PGGLTGPLNY YRNLFRNFPL EPQELTTPTL
   301  LLWGEKDTYL ELGLVEAIGS RFVPGRLEAH ILPGIGHWIP QSNPQEMHQY MWAFLQDLLD

LocalizationUniProt · AlphaFold · HPA

Whether an antibody against EPHX3 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
1
Mean surface accessibility (rSASA)
0.24
Highest tissue expression
74 nTPM

Expression across tissuesHPA

Tissue

  • skin: 74 nTPM
  • esophagus: 66 nTPM
  • vagina: 35 nTPM
  • cervix: 26 nTPM
  • tonsil: 25 nTPM
  • urinary bladder: 8.1 nTPM

Single-cell type

  • esophageal apical cells: 607 nCPM
  • esophageal suprabasal cells: 199 nCPM
  • suprabasal keratinocytes: 77 nCPM
  • esophageal basal cells: 44 nCPM
  • urothelial cells: 23 nCPM
  • submucosal glandular cells: 22 nCPM

Immune cell

  • non-classical monocyte: 2.4 nTPM
  • intermediate monocyte: 1.9 nTPM
  • plasmacytoid DC: 1.3 nTPM
  • classical monocyte: 0.5 nTPM
  • total PBMC: 0.2 nTPM
  • myeloid DC: 0.1 nTPM

Brain region

  • hypothalamus: 0.8 nTPM
  • medulla oblongata: 0.8 nTPM
  • cerebral cortex: 0.7 nTPM
  • midbrain: 0.6 nTPM
  • pons: 0.6 nTPM
  • white matter: 0.6 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)
1.66
gnomAD pLI
0
gnomAD missense Z
-0.03
DepMap mean gene effect
0.04
DepMap dependency class
selective

Cancer expressionTCGA

Across TCGA tumor cohorts, this protein is over-expressed in roughly 5% 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 EPHX3 as an antibody target. Whether an autoantibody or antibody against EPHX3 could matter depends on whether native EPHX3 is physically reachable, whether the body needs it intact, and whether it acts in a disease-relevant tissue.

EPHX3 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 EPHX3 as an autoantigen. Seroatlas presents hypothesis context only and does not manufacture a known-serology claim.

Canonical record: https://seroatlas.com/gene/EPHX3. 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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