Seroatlas · Human Serome Atlas

HEY1

Hairy/enhancer-of-split related with YRPW motif protein 1

Also known as: bHLHb31, CHF-2, CHF2, HERP2, HESR-1, HESR1, HEY1_HUMAN, HRT-1

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

Protein identityUniProt · HPA

UniProt accession
Q9Y5J3
Gene
HEY1
Ensembl
ENSG00000164683
Chromosome
8
Canonical length
304 aa
Protein class
Cancer-related genes, Predicted intracellular proteins, Transcription factors, Transporters
Subcellular location
Nucleoplasm,Nuclear membrane,Cytosol

OverviewNCBI Gene

This gene encodes a nuclear protein belonging to the hairy and enhancer of split-related (HESR) family of basic helix-loop-helix (bHLH)-type transcriptional repressors. Expression of this gene is induced by the Notch and c-Jun signal transduction pathways. Two similar and redundant genes in mouse are required for embryonic cardiovascular development, and are also implicated in neurogenesis and somitogenesis. Alternative splicing results in multiple transcript variants. [provided by RefSeq, Jul 2008]

Canonical amino-acid sequenceUniProt

304 residues, UniProt reviewed canonical sequence.

>Q9Y5J3|HEY1
     1  MKRAHPEYSS SDSELDETIE VEKESADENG NLSSALGSMS PTTSSQILAR KRRRGIIEKR
    61  RRDRINNSLS ELRRLVPSAF EKQGSAKLEK AEILQMTVDH LKMLHTAGGK GYFDAHALAM
   121  DYRSLGFREC LAEVARYLSI IEGLDASDPL RVRLVSHLNN YASQREAASG AHAGLGHIPW
   181  GTVFGHHPHI AHPLLLPQNG HGNAGTTASP TEPHHQGRLG SAHPEAPALR APPSGSLGPV
   241  LPVVTSASKL SPPLLSSVAS LSAFPFSFGS FHLLSPNALS PSAPTQAANL GKPYRPWGTE
   301  IGAF

LocalizationUniProt · AlphaFold · HPA

Whether an antibody against HEY1 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)
0.6
Highest tissue expression
48 nTPM

Expression across tissuesHPA

Tissue

  • cerebral cortex: 48 nTPM
  • basal ganglia: 33 nTPM
  • amygdala: 23 nTPM
  • midbrain: 21 nTPM
  • hypothalamus: 20 nTPM
  • hippocampal formation: 19 nTPM

Single-cell type

  • extravillous trophoblasts: 160 nCPM
  • pituitary stem cells: 79 nCPM
  • respiratory secretory cells: 72 nCPM
  • vascular endothelial cells: 51 nCPM
  • conjunctival goblet cells: 51 nCPM
  • mast cells: 45 nCPM

Immune cell

  • neutrophil: 6.9 nTPM
  • non-classical monocyte: 1.3 nTPM
  • intermediate monocyte: 0.3 nTPM
  • memory CD8 T-cell: 0.1 nTPM
  • basophil: 0 nTPM
  • classical monocyte: 0 nTPM

Brain region

  • basal ganglia: 33 nTPM
  • hypothalamus: 32 nTPM
  • midbrain: 29 nTPM
  • thalamus: 28 nTPM
  • pons: 26 nTPM
  • cerebellum: 26 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)
0.8
gnomAD pLI
0.05
gnomAD missense Z
0.5
DepMap mean gene effect
-0.05
DepMap dependency class
selective

Cancer expressionTCGA

Across TCGA tumor cohorts, this protein is over-expressed in roughly 4% 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 HEY1 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 HEY1 as an antibody target. Whether an autoantibody or antibody against HEY1 could matter depends on whether native HEY1 is physically reachable, whether the body needs it intact, and whether it acts in a disease-relevant tissue.

HEY1 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 HEY1 as an autoantigen. Seroatlas presents hypothesis context only and does not manufacture a known-serology claim.

Canonical record: https://seroatlas.com/gene/HEY1. 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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