Seroatlas · Human Serome Atlas

HAO2

2-Hydroxyacid oxidase 2

Also known as: GIG16, HAOX2, HAOX2_HUMAN

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

Protein identityUniProt · HPA

UniProt accession
Q9NYQ3
Gene
HAO2
Ensembl
ENSG00000116882
Chromosome
1
Canonical length
351 aa
Protein class
Enzymes, Metabolic proteins, Predicted intracellular proteins
Subcellular location
Vesicles,Cytosol
Quaternary structure
Homotetramer

OverviewNCBI Gene

This gene is one of three related genes that have 2-hydroxyacid oxidase activity. The encoded protein localizes to the peroxisome has the highest activity toward the substrate 2-hydroxypalmitate. Alternative splicing results in multiple transcript variants. [provided by RefSeq, Jul 2014]

Canonical amino-acid sequenceUniProt

351 residues, UniProt reviewed canonical sequence.

>Q9NYQ3|HAO2
     1  MSLVCLTDFQ AHAREQLSKS TRDFIEGGAD DSITRDDNIA AFKRIRLRPR YLRDVSEVDT
    61  RTTIQGEEIS APICIAPTGF HCLVWPDGEM STARAAQAAG ICYITSTFAS CSLEDIVIAA
   121  PEGLRWFQLY VHPDLQLNKQ LIQRVESLGF KALVITLDTP VCGNRRHDIR NQLRRNLTLT
   181  DLQSPKKGNA IPYFQMTPIS TSLCWNDLSW FQSITRLPII LKGILTKEDA ELAVKHNVQG
   241  IIVSNHGGRQ LDEVLASIDA LTEVVAAVKG KIEVYLDGGV RTGNDVLKAL ALGAKCIFLG
   301  RPILWGLACK GEHGVKEVLN ILTNEFHTSM ALTGCRSVAE INRNLVQFSR L

LocalizationUniProt · AlphaFold · HPA

Whether an antibody against HAO2 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)
0.23
Highest tissue expression
398 nTPM

Expression across tissuesHPA

Tissue

  • liver: 398 nTPM
  • kidney: 283 nTPM
  • thymus: 22 nTPM
  • skin: 4.1 nTPM
  • breast: 0.6 nTPM
  • adrenal gland: 0.5 nTPM

Single-cell type

  • hepatocytes: 397 nCPM
  • proximal tubule cells: 110 nCPM
  • hepatic stellate cells: 6.5 nCPM
  • cholangiocytes: 4.7 nCPM
  • kupffer cells: 4.1 nCPM
  • distal convoluted tubule cells: 3.5 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

  • cerebral cortex: 3 nTPM
  • thalamus: 2 nTPM
  • medulla oblongata: 1.9 nTPM
  • pons: 1.9 nTPM
  • amygdala: 1.8 nTPM
  • cerebellum: 1.5 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)
1.26
gnomAD pLI
0
gnomAD missense Z
-0.07
DepMap mean gene effect
-0.28
DepMap dependency class
selective

Cancer expressionTCGA

Across TCGA tumor cohorts, this protein is over-expressed in roughly 3% 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 HAO2 as an antibody target. Whether an autoantibody or antibody against HAO2 could matter depends on whether native HAO2 is physically reachable, whether the body needs it intact, and whether it acts in a disease-relevant tissue.

HAO2 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 HAO2 as an autoantigen. Seroatlas presents hypothesis context only and does not manufacture a known-serology claim.

Canonical record: https://seroatlas.com/gene/HAO2. 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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