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GGTLC1

Glutathione hydrolase light chain 1

Also known as: dJ831C21.1, dJ831C21.2, GGTL1_HUMAN, GGTLA3, GGTLA4

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

Protein identityUniProt · HPA

UniProt accession
Q9BX51
Gene
GGTLC1
Ensembl
ENSG00000149435
Chromosome
20
Canonical length
225 aa
Protein class
Metabolic proteins, Predicted intracellular proteins

OverviewNCBI Gene

This gene encodes a member of the gamma-glutamyl transpeptidase (GGT) family, which are important in the metabolism of glutathione. The most ubiquitously expressed human GGT gene, GGT1, encodes a single transmembrane polypeptide that is post-translationally processed to form a heavy and a light chain. In contrast, the product of this gene only contains homology to the light chain region, and lacks a transmembrane domain. Multiple alternatively spliced variants, encoding the same protein, have been identified. [provided by RefSeq, Oct 2008]

Canonical amino-acid sequenceUniProt

225 residues, UniProt reviewed canonical sequence.

>Q9BX51|GGTLC1
     1  MTSEFFSAQL RAQISDDTTH PISYYKPEFY MPDDGGTAHL SVVAEDGSAV SATSTINLYF
    61  GSKVRSPVSG ILLNNEMDDF SSTSITNEFG VPPSPANFIQ PGKQPLSSMC PTIMVGQDGQ
   121  VRMVVGAAGG TQITMATALA IIYNLWFGYD VKWAVEEPRL HNQLLPNVTT VERNIDQEVT
   181  AALETRHHHT QITSTFIAVV QAIVRMAGGW AAASDSRKGG EPAGY

LocalizationUniProt · AlphaFold · HPA

Whether an antibody against GGTLC1 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
Unknown
Secreted
No
Transmembrane segments
0
Mean surface accessibility (rSASA)
0.33
Highest tissue expression
31 nTPM

Expression across tissuesHPA

Tissue

  • lung: 31 nTPM
  • testis: 17 nTPM
  • thyroid gland: 2 nTPM
  • kidney: 0.4 nTPM
  • pancreas: 0.4 nTPM
  • duodenum: 0.2 nTPM

Single-cell type

  • late spermatids: 226 nCPM
  • alveolar cells type 1: 203 nCPM
  • late primary spermatocytes: 85 nCPM
  • early spermatids: 40 nCPM
  • transitional alveolar cells: 37 nCPM
  • alveolar cells type 2: 26 nCPM

Immune cell

  • basophil: 0 nTPM
  • classical monocyte: 0 nTPM
  • eosinophil: 0 nTPM
  • gdT-cell: 0 nTPM
  • intermediate monocyte: 0 nTPM
  • MAIT T-cell: 0 nTPM

Brain region

  • medulla oblongata: 0.4 nTPM
  • hypothalamus: 0.2 nTPM
  • thalamus: 0.2 nTPM
  • amygdala: 0.1 nTPM
  • basal ganglia: 0.1 nTPM
  • cerebral cortex: 0.1 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)
1.68
gnomAD pLI
0
gnomAD missense Z
-1.18
DepMap mean gene effect
-0.22
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

Protein domainsUniProt · Pfam · InterPro

Antibody and autoantibody relevanceSeroatlas analysis

Seroatlas reads GGTLC1 as an antibody target. Whether an autoantibody or antibody against GGTLC1 could matter depends on whether native GGTLC1 is physically reachable, whether the body needs it intact, and whether it acts in a disease-relevant tissue.

GGTLC1 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 GGTLC1 as an autoantigen. Seroatlas presents hypothesis context only and does not manufacture a known-serology claim.

Canonical record: https://seroatlas.com/gene/GGTLC1. 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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