Seroatlas · Human Serome Atlas

GPNMB

Transmembrane glycoprotein NMB

Also known as: GPNMB_HUMAN, HGFIN, NMB

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

Protein identityUniProt · HPA

UniProt accession
Q14956
Gene
GPNMB
Ensembl
ENSG00000136235
Chromosome
7
Canonical length
572 aa
Protein class
Disease related genes, Human disease related genes, Plasma proteins, Predicted intracellular proteins, Predicted membrane proteins
Secretome location
Intracellular and membrane

OverviewNCBI Gene

The protein encoded by this gene is a type I transmembrane glycoprotein which shows homology to the pMEL17 precursor, a melanocyte-specific protein. GPNMB shows expression in the lowly metastatic human melanoma cell lines and xenografts but does not show expression in the highly metastatic cell lines. GPNMB may be involved in growth delay and reduction of metastatic potential. Two transcript variants encoding different isoforms have been found for this gene. [provided by RefSeq, Jul 2008]

Canonical amino-acid sequenceUniProt

572 residues, UniProt reviewed canonical sequence.

>Q14956|GPNMB
     1  MECLYYFLGF LLLAARLPLD AAKRFHDVLG NERPSAYMRE HNQLNGWSSD ENDWNEKLYP
    61  VWKRGDMRWK NSWKGGRVQA VLTSDSPALV GSNITFAVNL IFPRCQKEDA NGNIVYEKNC
   121  RNEAGLSADP YVYNWTAWSE DSDGENGTGQ SHHNVFPDGK PFPHHPGWRR WNFIYVFHTL
   181  GQYFQKLGRC SVRVSVNTAN VTLGPQLMEV TVYRRHGRAY VPIAQVKDVY VVTDQIPVFV
   241  TMFQKNDRNS SDETFLKDLP IMFDVLIHDP SHFLNYSTIN YKWSFGDNTG LFVSTNHTVN
   301  HTYVLNGTFS LNLTVKAAAP GPCPPPPPPP RPSKPTPSLA TTLKSYDSNT PGPAGDNPLE
   361  LSRIPDENCQ INRYGHFQAT ITIVEGILEV NIIQMTDVLM PVPWPESSLI DFVVTCQGSI
   421  PTEVCTIISD PTCEITQNTV CSPVDVDEMC LLTVRRTFNG SGTYCVNLTL GDDTSLALTS
   481  TLISVPDRDP ASPLRMANSA LISVGCLAIF VTVISLLVYK KHKEYNPIEN SPGNVVRSKG
   541  LSVFLNRAKA VFFPGNQEKD PLLKNQEFKG VS

LocalizationUniProt · AlphaFold · HPA

Whether an antibody against GPNMB 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
Cell surface
Secreted
No
Transmembrane segments
1
Mean surface accessibility (rSASA)
0.4
Highest tissue expression
548 nTPM

Expression across tissuesHPA

Tissue

  • skin: 548 nTPM
  • heart muscle: 302 nTPM
  • cervix: 286 nTPM
  • gallbladder: 254 nTPM
  • lung: 203 nTPM
  • blood vessel: 182 nTPM

Single-cell type

  • melanocytes: 1,124 nCPM
  • hofbauer cells: 548 nCPM
  • kupffer cells: 374 nCPM
  • macrophages: 361 nCPM
  • basal keratinocytes: 316 nCPM
  • fibroblasts: 287 nCPM

Immune cell

  • intermediate monocyte: 3.9 nTPM
  • classical monocyte: 2.1 nTPM
  • basophil: 0.6 nTPM
  • neutrophil: 0.5 nTPM
  • total PBMC: 0.5 nTPM
  • myeloid DC: 0.4 nTPM

Brain region

  • choroid plexus: 134 nTPM
  • white matter: 110 nTPM
  • thalamus: 44 nTPM
  • medulla oblongata: 38 nTPM
  • pons: 36 nTPM
  • spinal cord: 29 nTPM

DiseaseUniProt · ClinVar · IEDB · PubMed

Four sources answering four different questions about GPNMB.

Disease | AllUniProt

Conditions GPNMB is implicated in, by any mechanism.

Disease | GeneticClinVar

16 pathogenic / likely-pathogenic of 139 ClinVar records.

Conditions with pathogenic or likely-pathogenic variants.

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
0.12
DepMap mean gene effect
-0.01
DepMap dependency class
none

Cancer expressionTCGA

Across TCGA tumor cohorts, this protein is over-expressed in roughly 6% 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 GPNMB as an antibody target. Whether an autoantibody or antibody against GPNMB could matter depends on whether native GPNMB is physically reachable, whether the body needs it intact, and whether it acts in a disease-relevant tissue.

GPNMB is annotated at the cell surface, where native GPNMB is exposed to circulating antibodies and is a prime autoantibody target that could block, deplete, or overstimulate it.

Annotation status

The present source text does not explicitly label GPNMB as an autoantigen. Seroatlas presents hypothesis context only and does not manufacture a known-serology claim.

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