HOMER3
Homer protein homolog 3
Also known as: HOME3_HUMAN, HOMER-3
Cross-references: UniProt · Ensembl · Human Protein Atlas · GeneCards · NCBI Gene
Protein identityUniProt · HPA
- UniProt accession
- Q9NSC5
- Gene
- HOMER3
- Ensembl
- ENSG00000051128
- Chromosome
- 19
- Canonical length
- 361 aa
- Protein class
- Predicted intracellular proteins
- Subcellular location
- Plasma membrane,Cytosol,Cytoplasmic bodies
OverviewNCBI Gene
This gene encodes a member of the HOMER family of postsynaptic density scaffolding proteins that share a similar domain structure consisting of an N-terminal Enabled/vasodilator-stimulated phosphoprotein homology 1 domain which mediates protein-protein interactions, and a carboxy-terminal coiled-coil domain and two leucine zipper motifs that are involved in self-oligomerization. The encoded protein binds numerous other proteins including group I metabotropic glutamate receptors, inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate receptors and amyloid precursor proteins and has been implicated in diverse biological functions such as neuronal signaling, T-cell activation and trafficking of amyloid beta peptides. Alternative splicing results in multiple transcript variants.[provided by RefSeq, Mar 2009]
Canonical amino-acid sequenceUniProt
361 residues, UniProt reviewed canonical sequence.
>Q9NSC5|HOMER3
1 MSTAREQPIF STRAHVFQID PATKRNWIPA GKHALTVSYF YDATRNVYRI ISIGGAKAII
61 NSTVTPNMTF TKTSQKFGQW ADSRANTVYG LGFASEQHLT QFAEKFQEVK EAARLAREKS
121 QDGGELTSPA LGLASHQVPP SPLVSANGPG EEKLFRSQSA DAPGPTERER LKKMLSEGSV
181 GEVQWEAEFF ALQDSNNKLA GALREANAAA AQWRQQLEAQ RAEAERLRQR VAELEAQAAS
241 EVTPTGEKEG LGQGQSLEQL EALVQTKDQE IQTLKSQTGG PREALEAAER EETQQKVQDL
301 ETRNAELEHQ LRAMERSLEE ARAERERARA EVGRAAQLLD VSLFELSELR EGLARLAEAA
361 PLocalizationUniProt · AlphaFold · HPA
Whether an antibody against HOMER3 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)
- 0.47
- Highest tissue expression
- 118 nTPM
Expression across tissuesHPA
Tissue
- spleen: 118 nTPM
- cerebellum: 116 nTPM
- skeletal muscle: 110 nTPM
- spinal cord: 86 nTPM
- choroid plexus: 61 nTPM
- midbrain: 59 nTPM
Single-cell type
- lymphatic endothelial cells: 11 nCPM
- ocular epithelial cells: 10 nCPM
- retinal pigment epithelial cells: 8.5 nCPM
- endometrial secretory cells: 5.5 nCPM
- monocytes: 5.4 nCPM
- macrophages: 5 nCPM
Immune cell
- classical monocyte: 15 nTPM
- neutrophil: 5.8 nTPM
- intermediate monocyte: 5.3 nTPM
- total PBMC: 4.2 nTPM
- eosinophil: 2.9 nTPM
- naive B-cell: 2.7 nTPM
Brain region
- cerebellum: 129 nTPM
- cerebral cortex: 65 nTPM
- white matter: 62 nTPM
- medulla oblongata: 58 nTPM
- thalamus: 56 nTPM
- basal ganglia: 56 nTPM
DiseaseUniProt · ClinVar · IEDB · PubMed
Four sources answering four different questions about HOMER3.
Disease | AutoantibodyPubMed
Conditions in which antibodies against HOMER3 are reported. Each links to that disease's full target list.
ReferencesPubMed · IEDB
Publications for HOMER3 from three distinct lines of evidence, kept separate because they answer different questions: whether antibodies are directed at the protein, whether a B-cell epitope has been mapped on it, and whether a T-cell epitope has. Each is labelled with its source.
Reference: AutoantibodyPubMed
12 publications
- Neurological Autoimmunity Associated With Homer-3 Antibody: A Case Series From China.
2021 · Neurol Neuroimmunol Neuroinflamm · RCR 2.6 · 31 citations - Clinical features of autoimmune cerebellar ataxia related to neuronal antibodies.
2025 · Front Immunol · RCR 2 · 5 citations - Update in Autoimmune Movement Disorders: Newly Described Antigen Targets in Autoimmune and Paraneoplastic Cerebellar Ataxia.
2021 · Front Neurol · RCR 1.8 · 24 citations - Patient with homer-3 antibodies and cerebellitis.
2013 · JAMA Neurol · RCR 1.6 · 50 citations - Anti-Homer-3 antibody associated cerebellar ataxia: A rare case report and literature review.
2019 · J Neuroimmunol · RCR 1.1 · 18 citations
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- Cerebrospinal Fluid Homer-3 Autoantibodies in a Patient with Amnestic Mild Cognitive Impairment.
2023 · Brain Sci · RCR 0.9 · 6 citations - HOMER-3 Antibodies Were Not Detected in Two German Cohorts of Patients with Multiple System Atrophy.
2022 · Mov Disord · RCR 0.3 · 3 citations - CNS syndromes associated with antibodies against metabotropic receptors.
2017 · Curr Opin Neurol · RCR 0.2 · 4 citations - Homer-3 antibody in autoimmune cerebellar syndromes: a potentially treatable mimic of MSA-C - A review.
2025 · Front Immunol · 4 citations - Acute neuronal cell death and neuroinflammation per se do not trigger secondary autoimmune encephalitis in mice.
2025 · Sci Rep - A case of Homer-3 IgG cerebellar ataxia & literature review of 15 reported cases.
2026 · J Neuroimmunol - Autoimmune cerebellar ataxia with anti-Homer3 antibodies associated with herpesvirus infection: a case report and literature review.
2025 · Front Immunol
Sources: PubMed — antigen-level antibody evidence from a custom retrieval. Records matching a controlled set of autoantibody terms (the MeSH descriptors Autoantibodies and Autoantigens, with title and abstract term variants) were obtained through NCBI E-utilities, and their titles and abstracts parsed for constructions that direct an antibody at a named protein rather than for co-occurrence. Captured names were resolved against UniProt nomenclature and each antigen adjudicated individually against the source text. Bibliographic records from PubMed and MeSH, U.S. National Library of Medicine; citation metrics from NIH iCite (Hutchins et al., PLoS Biology 2016). Titles link to PubMed; abstracts are not reproduced here. The NLM does not endorse this analysis.
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)
- 0.34
- gnomAD pLI
- 0.95
- gnomAD missense Z
- 1.19
- DepMap mean gene effect
- -0.14
- 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
- G protein-coupled glutamate receptor signaling pathway
- negative regulation of calcineurin-NFAT signaling cascade
- negative regulation of interleukin-2 production
- protein targeting
- regulation of store-operated calcium entry
- regulation of synaptic transmission, glutamatergic
Molecular functions
- G protein-coupled glutamate receptor binding
- identical protein binding
- protein domain specific binding
Cellular components
Protein domainsUniProt · Pfam · InterPro
KeywordsUniProt
InteractionsUniProt · HPA
Protein binding partners of HOMER3 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 HOMER3 as an antibody target. Whether an autoantibody or antibody against HOMER3 could matter depends on whether native HOMER3 is physically reachable, whether the body needs it intact, and whether it acts in a disease-relevant tissue.
HOMER3 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 HOMER3 as an autoantigen. Seroatlas presents hypothesis context only and does not manufacture a known-serology claim.
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