Seroatlas · Human Serome Atlas

HDAC6

Protein deacetylase HDAC6

Also known as: FLJ16239, HD6, HDAC6_HUMAN, JM21, KIAA0901, PPP1R90

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

Protein identityUniProt · HPA

UniProt accession
Q9UBN7
Gene
HDAC6
Ensembl
ENSG00000094631
Chromosome
X
Canonical length
1215 aa
Protein class
Disease related genes, Enzymes, FDA approved drug targets, Human disease related genes, Predicted intracellular proteins
Subcellular location
Nucleoplasm,Centrosome,Basal body,Cytosol

OverviewNCBI Gene

Histones play a critical role in transcriptional regulation, cell cycle progression, and developmental events. Histone acetylation/deacetylation alters chromosome structure and affects transcription factor access to DNA. The protein encoded by this gene belongs to class II of the histone deacetylase/acuc/apha family. It contains an internal duplication of two catalytic domains which appear to function independently of each other. This protein possesses histone deacetylase activity and represses transcription. [provided by RefSeq, Jul 2008]

Canonical amino-acid sequenceUniProt

1215 residues, UniProt reviewed canonical sequence.

>Q9UBN7|HDAC6
     1  MTSTGQDSTT TRQRRSRQNP QSPPQDSSVT SKRNIKKGAV PRSIPNLAEV KKKGKMKKLG
    61  QAMEEDLIVG LQGMDLNLEA EALAGTGLVL DEQLNEFHCL WDDSFPEGPE RLHAIKEQLI
   121  QEGLLDRCVS FQARFAEKEE LMLVHSLEYI DLMETTQYMN EGELRVLADT YDSVYLHPNS
   181  YSCACLASGS VLRLVDAVLG AEIRNGMAII RPPGHHAQHS LMDGYCMFNH VAVAARYAQQ
   241  KHRIRRVLIV DWDVHHGQGT QFTFDQDPSV LYFSIHRYEQ GRFWPHLKAS NWSTTGFGQG
   301  QGYTINVPWN QVGMRDADYI AAFLHVLLPV ALEFQPQLVL VAAGFDALQG DPKGEMAATP
   361  AGFAQLTHLL MGLAGGKLIL SLEGGYNLRA LAEGVSASLH TLLGDPCPML ESPGAPCRSA
   421  QASVSCALEA LEPFWEVLVR STETVERDNM EEDNVEESEE EGPWEPPVLP ILTWPVLQSR
   481  TGLVYDQNMM NHCNLWDSHH PEVPQRILRI MCRLEELGLA GRCLTLTPRP ATEAELLTCH
   541  SAEYVGHLRA TEKMKTRELH RESSNFDSIY ICPSTFACAQ LATGAACRLV EAVLSGEVLN
   601  GAAVVRPPGH HAEQDAACGF CFFNSVAVAA RHAQTISGHA LRILIVDWDV HHGNGTQHMF
   661  EDDPSVLYVS LHRYDHGTFF PMGDEGASSQ IGRAAGTGFT VNVAWNGPRM GDADYLAAWH
   721  RLVLPIAYEF NPELVLVSAG FDAARGDPLG GCQVSPEGYA HLTHLLMGLA SGRIILILEG
   781  GYNLTSISES MAACTRSLLG DPPPLLTLPR PPLSGALASI TETIQVHRRY WRSLRVMKVE
   841  DREGPSSSKL VTKKAPQPAK PRLAERMTTR EKKVLEAGMG KVTSASFGEE STPGQTNSET
   901  AVVALTQDQP SEAATGGATL AQTISEAAIG GAMLGQTTSE EAVGGATPDQ TTSEETVGGA
   961  ILDQTTSEDA VGGATLGQTT SEEAVGGATL AQTTSEAAME GATLDQTTSE EAPGGTELIQ
  1021  TPLASSTDHQ TPPTSPVQGT TPQISPSTLI GSLRTLELGS ESQGASESQA PGEENLLGEA
  1081  AGGQDMADSM LMQGSRGLTD QAIFYAVTPL PWCPHLVAVC PIPAAGLDVT QPCGDCGTIQ
  1141  ENWVCLSCYQ VYCGRYINGH MLQHHGNSGH PLVLSYIDLS AWCYYCQAYV HHQALLDVKN
  1201  IAHQNKFGED MPHPH

LocalizationUniProt · AlphaFold · HPA

Whether an antibody against HDAC6 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)
0.34
Highest tissue expression
25 nTPM

Expression across tissuesHPA

Tissue

  • liver: 25 nTPM
  • kidney: 24 nTPM
  • testis: 24 nTPM
  • pituitary gland: 19 nTPM
  • cerebellum: 17 nTPM
  • endometrium: 17 nTPM

Single-cell type

  • early primary spermatocytes: 125 nCPM
  • proximal tubule cells: 77 nCPM
  • hepatocytes: 63 nCPM
  • early spermatids: 55 nCPM
  • tuft cells: 46 nCPM
  • sertoli cells: 41 nCPM

Immune cell

  • non-classical monocyte: 9.8 nTPM
  • intermediate monocyte: 7.4 nTPM
  • myeloid DC: 6.7 nTPM
  • eosinophil: 5.2 nTPM
  • plasmacytoid DC: 4.9 nTPM
  • classical monocyte: 4.3 nTPM

Brain region

  • medulla oblongata: 24 nTPM
  • pons: 21 nTPM
  • hypothalamus: 21 nTPM
  • cerebellum: 21 nTPM
  • midbrain: 21 nTPM
  • basal ganglia: 19 nTPM

DiseaseUniProt · ClinVar · IEDB · PubMed

Four sources answering four different questions about HDAC6.

Disease | AllUniProt

Conditions HDAC6 is implicated in, by any mechanism.

Disease | GeneticClinVar

3 pathogenic / likely-pathogenic of 284 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)
0.07
gnomAD pLI
1
gnomAD missense Z
3.29
DepMap mean gene effect
-0.06
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

InteractionsUniProt · HPA

Protein binding partners of HDAC6 in the human serome: UniProt-annotated complex subunits plus reported interactors. Each links to its own Seroatlas record.

Antibody and autoantibody relevanceSeroatlas analysis

Seroatlas reads HDAC6 as an antibody target. Whether an autoantibody or antibody against HDAC6 could matter depends on whether native HDAC6 is physically reachable, whether the body needs it intact, and whether it acts in a disease-relevant tissue.

HDAC6 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 HDAC6 as an autoantigen. Seroatlas presents hypothesis context only and does not manufacture a known-serology claim.

Canonical record: https://seroatlas.com/gene/HDAC6. 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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