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HPD

4-hydroxyphenylpyruvate dioxygenase

Also known as: 4-HPPD, 4HPPD, GLOD3, HPPD_HUMAN, PPD

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

Protein identityUniProt · HPA

UniProt accession
P32754
Gene
HPD
Ensembl
ENSG00000158104
Chromosome
12
Canonical length
393 aa
Protein class
Disease related genes, Enzymes, FDA approved drug targets, Human disease related genes, Metabolic proteins, Plasma proteins, Predicted intracellular proteins
Subcellular location
Nuclear speckles
Quaternary structure
Homodimer

OverviewNCBI Gene

The protein encoded by this gene is an enzyme in the catabolic pathway of tyrosine. The encoded protein catalyzes the conversion of 4-hydroxyphenylpyruvate to homogentisate. Defects in this gene are a cause of tyrosinemia type 3 (TYRO3) and hawkinsinuria (HAWK). Two transcript variants encoding different isoforms have been found for this gene. [provided by RefSeq, Jan 2010]

Canonical amino-acid sequenceUniProt

393 residues, UniProt reviewed canonical sequence.

>P32754|HPD
     1  MTTYSDKGAK PERGRFLHFH SVTFWVGNAK QATSFYCSKM GFEPLAYRGL ETGSREVVSH
    61  VIKQGKIVFV LSSALNPWNK EMGDHLVKHG DGVKDIAFEV EDCDYIVQKA RERGAKIMRE
   121  PWVEQDKFGK VKFAVLQTYG DTTHTLVEKM NYIGQFLPGY EAPAFMDPLL PKLPKCSLEM
   181  IDHIVGNQPD QEMVSASEWY LKNLQFHRFW SVDDTQVHTE YSSLRSIVVA NYEESIKMPI
   241  NEPAPGKKKS QIQEYVDYNG GAGVQHIALK TEDIITAIRH LRERGLEFLS VPSTYYKQLR
   301  EKLKTAKIKV KENIDALEEL KILVDYDEKG YLLQIFTKPV QDRPTLFLEV IQRHNHQGFG
   361  AGNFNSLFKA FEEEQNLRGN LTNMETNGVV PGM

LocalizationUniProt · AlphaFold · HPA

Whether an antibody against HPD 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
Other membrane
Secreted
No
Transmembrane segments
0
Mean surface accessibility (rSASA)
0.24
Highest tissue expression
2,365 nTPM

Expression across tissuesHPA

Tissue

  • liver: 2,365 nTPM
  • kidney: 495 nTPM
  • choroid plexus: 477 nTPM
  • blood vessel: 10 nTPM
  • testis: 9.8 nTPM
  • seminal vesicle: 6.9 nTPM

Single-cell type

  • hepatocytes: 1,643 nCPM
  • late spermatids: 224 nCPM
  • choroid plexus epithelial cells: 149 nCPM
  • proximal tubule cells: 79 nCPM
  • early spermatids: 70 nCPM
  • cholangiocytes: 55 nCPM

Immune cell

  • eosinophil: 7.9 nTPM
  • neutrophil: 3.9 nTPM
  • plasmacytoid DC: 3.8 nTPM
  • non-classical monocyte: 1.3 nTPM
  • myeloid DC: 1 nTPM
  • intermediate monocyte: 0.8 nTPM

Brain region

  • choroid plexus: 243 nTPM
  • hippocampal formation: 16 nTPM
  • thalamus: 7 nTPM
  • cerebellum: 6.4 nTPM
  • medulla oblongata: 3.1 nTPM
  • midbrain: 2.1 nTPM

DiseaseUniProt · ClinVar · IEDB · PubMed

Four sources answering four different questions about HPD.

Disease | AllUniProt

Conditions HPD is implicated in, by any mechanism.

Disease | GeneticClinVar

42 pathogenic / likely-pathogenic of 456 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)
0.67
gnomAD pLI
0
gnomAD missense Z
0.73
DepMap mean gene effect
-0.13
DepMap dependency class
selective

Cancer expressionTCGA

Across TCGA tumor cohorts, this protein is over-expressed in roughly 2% 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 HPD as an antibody target. Whether an autoantibody or antibody against HPD could matter depends on whether native HPD is physically reachable, whether the body needs it intact, and whether it acts in a disease-relevant tissue.

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

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