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HAPLN3

Hyaluronan and proteoglycan link protein 3

Also known as: EXLD1, HPLN3_HUMAN, HsT19883

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

Protein identityUniProt · HPA

UniProt accession
Q96S86
Gene
HAPLN3
Ensembl
ENSG00000140511
Chromosome
15
Canonical length
360 aa
Protein class
Predicted membrane proteins, Predicted secreted proteins
Subcellular location
Plasma membrane,Cytosol
Secretome location
Secreted to extracellular matrix

OverviewNCBI Gene

This gene belongs to the hyaluronan and proteoglycan binding link protein gene family. The protein encoded by this gene may function in hyaluronic acid binding and cell adhesion. [provided by RefSeq, Jul 2008]

Canonical amino-acid sequenceUniProt

360 residues, UniProt reviewed canonical sequence.

>Q96S86|HAPLN3
     1  MGLLLLVPLL LLPGSYGLPF YNGFYYSNSA NDQNLGNGHG KDLLNGVKLV VETPEETLFT
    61  YQGASVILPC RYRYEPALVS PRRVRVKWWK LSENGAPEKD VLVAIGLRHR SFGDYQGRVH
   121  LRQDKEHDVS LEIQDLRLED YGRYRCEVID GLEDESGLVE LELRGVVFPY QSPNGRYQFN
   181  FHEGQQVCAE QAAVVASFEQ LFRAWEEGLD WCNAGWLQDA TVQYPIMLPR QPCGGPGLAP
   241  GVRSYGPRHR RLHRYDVFCF ATALKGRVYY LEHPEKLTLT EAREACQEDD ATIAKVGQLF
   301  AAWKFHGLDR CDAGWLADGS VRYPVVHPHP NCGPPEPGVR SFGFPDPQSR LYGVYCYRQH

LocalizationUniProt · AlphaFold · HPA

Whether an antibody against HAPLN3 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
Secreted
Secreted
Yes
Transmembrane segments
0
Mean surface accessibility (rSASA)
0.32
Highest tissue expression
44 nTPM

Expression across tissuesHPA

Tissue

  • blood vessel: 44 nTPM
  • appendix: 11 nTPM
  • lymph node: 11 nTPM
  • adipose tissue: 11 nTPM
  • lung: 11 nTPM
  • breast: 9.1 nTPM

Single-cell type

  • extravillous trophoblasts: 1,509 nCPM
  • breast lactating cells: 291 nCPM
  • rod photoreceptor cells: 128 nCPM
  • breast secretory cells: 67 nCPM
  • migrating cytotrophoblasts: 65 nCPM
  • salivary myoepithelial cells: 60 nCPM

Immune cell

  • T-reg: 51 nTPM
  • memory CD4 T-cell: 18 nTPM
  • naive CD4 T-cell: 18 nTPM
  • NK-cell: 10 nTPM
  • naive CD8 T-cell: 8.6 nTPM
  • memory CD8 T-cell: 7.4 nTPM

Brain region

  • pons: 2.2 nTPM
  • thalamus: 2.1 nTPM
  • medulla oblongata: 1.9 nTPM
  • spinal cord: 1.8 nTPM
  • amygdala: 1.4 nTPM
  • cerebral cortex: 1.4 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)
1.24
gnomAD pLI
0
gnomAD missense Z
0.22
DepMap mean gene effect
-0.02
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 HAPLN3 as an antibody target. Whether an autoantibody or antibody against HAPLN3 could matter depends on whether native HAPLN3 is physically reachable, whether the body needs it intact, and whether it acts in a disease-relevant tissue.

HAPLN3 is annotated as secreted, so native HAPLN3 circulates and is directly accessible to antibodies. Secreted and cell-surface proteins are the autoantibody targets most likely to act like drugs, blocking or depleting the native protein.

Annotation status

The present source text does not explicitly label HAPLN3 as an autoantigen. Seroatlas presents hypothesis context only and does not manufacture a known-serology claim.

Canonical record: https://seroatlas.com/gene/HAPLN3. 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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