Seroatlas · Human Serome Atlas

HOXA1

Homeobox protein Hox-A1

Also known as: HXA1_HUMAN

Cross-references: UniProt · GeneCards · NCBI Gene

Protein identityUniProt · HPA

UniProt accession
P49639
Gene
HOXA1
Canonical length
335 aa
Protein class
Human disease related genes, Predicted intracellular proteins

OverviewNCBI Gene

No narrative summary is available for HOXA1 in this catalog release; identity and structured annotations are shown without generated factual claims.

Canonical amino-acid sequenceUniProt

335 residues, UniProt reviewed canonical sequence.

>P49639|HOXA1
     1  MDNARMNSFL EYPILSSGDS GTCSARAYPS DHRITTFQSC AVSANSCGGD DRFLVGRGVQ
    61  IGSPHHHHHH HHRHPQPATY QTSGNLGVSY SHSSCGPSYG SQNFSAPYSP YALNQEADVS
   121  GGYPQCAPAV YSGNLSSPMV QHHHHHQGYA GGAVGSPQYI HHSYGQEHQS LALATYNNSL
   181  SPLHASHQEA CRSPASETSS PAQTFDWMKV KRNPPKTGKV GEYGYLGQPN AVRTNFTTKQ
   241  LTELEKEFHF NKYLTRARRV EIAASLQLNE TQVKIWFQNR RMKQKKREKE GLLPISPATP
   301  PGNDEKAEES SEKSSSSPCV PSPGSSTSDT LTTSH

LocalizationUniProt · AlphaFold · HPA

Whether an antibody against HOXA1 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)
0.67
Highest tissue expression
5 nTPM

Expression across tissuesHPA

Tissue

  • urinary bladder: 5 nTPM
  • esophagus: 2.7 nTPM
  • skin: 2.1 nTPM
  • epididymis: 1.8 nTPM
  • lymph node: 1.2 nTPM
  • spleen: 1.2 nTPM

Single-cell type

  • tuft cells: 46 nCPM
  • kupffer cells: 10 nCPM
  • urothelial cells: 8.8 nCPM
  • megakaryocytes: 6.2 nCPM
  • epididymal basal cells: 5.1 nCPM
  • esophageal apical cells: 4.2 nCPM

Immune cell

  • non-classical monocyte: 7 nTPM
  • NK-cell: 4.8 nTPM
  • intermediate monocyte: 4.5 nTPM
  • memory CD4 T-cell: 0.9 nTPM
  • T-reg: 0.9 nTPM
  • gdT-cell: 0.8 nTPM

Brain region

  • medulla oblongata: 2.5 nTPM
  • spinal cord: 1.6 nTPM
  • white matter: 1.6 nTPM
  • pons: 1.1 nTPM
  • cerebral cortex: 0.1 nTPM
  • hypothalamus: 0.1 nTPM

DiseaseUniProt · ClinVar · IEDB · PubMed

Four sources answering four different questions about HOXA1.

Disease | AllUniProt

Conditions HOXA1 is implicated in, by any mechanism.

Disease | GeneticClinVar

5 pathogenic / likely-pathogenic of 121 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)
0.63
gnomAD pLI
0.29
gnomAD missense Z
-0.1
DepMap mean gene effect
0.02
DepMap dependency class
selective

Cancer expressionTCGA

Across TCGA tumor cohorts, this protein is over-expressed in roughly 8% 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 HOXA1 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 HOXA1 as an antibody target. Whether an autoantibody or antibody against HOXA1 could matter depends on whether native HOXA1 is physically reachable, whether the body needs it intact, and whether it acts in a disease-relevant tissue.

HOXA1 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 HOXA1 as an autoantigen. Seroatlas presents hypothesis context only and does not manufacture a known-serology claim.

Canonical record: https://seroatlas.com/gene/HOXA1. 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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