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GLYATL3

Glycine N-acyltransferase-like protein 3

Also known as: bA28H17.2, C6orf140, GLYL3_HUMAN

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

Protein identityUniProt · HPA

UniProt accession
Q5SZD4
Gene
GLYATL3
Ensembl
ENSG00000203972
Chromosome
6
Canonical length
288 aa
Protein class
Enzymes, Metabolic proteins, Predicted intracellular proteins

OverviewNCBI Gene

Predicted to enable glycine N-acyltransferase activity. Predicted to be involved in lipid metabolic process. Predicted to be located in mitochondrion. [provided by Alliance of Genome Resources, Jul 2025]

Canonical amino-acid sequenceUniProt

288 residues, UniProt reviewed canonical sequence.

>Q5SZD4|GLYATL3
     1  MLVLNCSTKL LILEKMLKSC FPESLKVYGA VMNINRGNPF QKEVVLDSWP DFKAVITRRQ
    61  REAETDNLDH YTNAYAVFYK DVRAYRQLLE ECDVFNWDQV FQIQGLQSEL YDVSKAVANS
   121  KQLNIKLTSF KAVHFSPVSS LPDTSFLKGP SPRLTYLSVA NADLLNRTWS RGGNEQCLRY
   181  IANLISCFPS VCVRDEKGNP VSWSITDQFA TMCHGYTLPE HRRKGYSRLV ALTLARKLQS
   241  RGFPSQGNVL DDNTASISLL KSLHAEFLPC RFHRLILTPA TFSGLPHL

LocalizationUniProt · AlphaFold · HPA

Whether an antibody against GLYATL3 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)
0.24
Highest tissue expression
1.1 nTPM

Expression across tissuesHPA

Tissue

  • liver: 1.1 nTPM
  • rectum: 0.4 nTPM
  • colon: 0.2 nTPM
  • adipose tissue: 0 nTPM
  • adrenal gland: 0 nTPM
  • amygdala: 0 nTPM

Single-cell type

  • neuroendocrine cells: 10 nCPM
  • pancreatic acinar cells: 4.8 nCPM
  • endometrial luminal cells: 3.5 nCPM
  • endometrial ciliated cells: 3 nCPM
  • endometrial glandular cells: 1.8 nCPM
  • thymocytes: 1.7 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

  • amygdala: 0 nTPM
  • basal ganglia: 0 nTPM
  • cerebellum: 0 nTPM
  • cerebral cortex: 0 nTPM
  • choroid plexus: 0 nTPM
  • hippocampal formation: 0 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)
1.4
gnomAD pLI
0
gnomAD missense Z
0.74
DepMap mean gene effect
-0.1
DepMap dependency class
selective

Cancer expressionTCGA

Across TCGA tumor cohorts, this protein is over-expressed in roughly 2% 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 GLYATL3 as an antibody target. Whether an autoantibody or antibody against GLYATL3 could matter depends on whether native GLYATL3 is physically reachable, whether the body needs it intact, and whether it acts in a disease-relevant tissue.

GLYATL3 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 GLYATL3 as an autoantigen. Seroatlas presents hypothesis context only and does not manufacture a known-serology claim.

Canonical record: https://seroatlas.com/gene/GLYATL3. 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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