Seroatlas · Human Serome Atlas

HSF1

Heat shock factor protein 1

Also known as: HSF1_HUMAN, HSTF1

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

Protein identityUniProt · HPA

UniProt accession
Q00613
Gene
HSF1
Ensembl
ENSG00000185122
Chromosome
8
Canonical length
529 aa
Protein class
Cancer-related genes, Plasma proteins, Predicted intracellular proteins, Transcription factors
Subcellular location
Nucleoplasm,Cytosol
Quaternary structure
Homotrimer

OverviewNCBI Gene

The product of this gene is a transcription factor that is rapidly induced after temperature stress and binds heat shock promoter elements (HSE). This protein plays a role in the regulation of lifespan. Expression of this gene is repressed by phosphorylation, which promotes binding by heat shock protein 90. [provided by RefSeq, Jul 2017]

Canonical amino-acid sequenceUniProt

529 residues, UniProt reviewed canonical sequence.

>Q00613|HSF1
     1  MDLPVGPGAA GPSNVPAFLT KLWTLVSDPD TDALICWSPS GNSFHVFDQG QFAKEVLPKY
    61  FKHNNMASFV RQLNMYGFRK VVHIEQGGLV KPERDDTEFQ HPCFLRGQEQ LLENIKRKVT
   121  SVSTLKSEDI KIRQDSVTKL LTDVQLMKGK QECMDSKLLA MKHENEALWR EVASLRQKHA
   181  QQQKVVNKLI QFLISLVQSN RILGVKRKIP LMLNDSGSAH SMPKYSRQFS LEHVHGSGPY
   241  SAPSPAYSSS SLYAPDAVAS SGPIISDITE LAPASPMASP GGSIDERPLS SSPLVRVKEE
   301  PPSPPQSPRV EEASPGRPSS VDTLLSPTAL IDSILRESEP APASVTALTD ARGHTDTEGR
   361  PPSPPPTSTP EKCLSVACLD KNELSDHLDA MDSNLDNLQT MLSSHGFSVD TSALLDLFSP
   421  SVTVPDMSLP DLDSSLASIQ ELLSPQEPPR PPEAENSSPD SGKQLVHYTA QPLFLLDPGS
   481  VDTGSNDLPV LFELGEGSYF SEGDGFAEDP TISLLTGSEP PKAKDPTVS

LocalizationUniProt · AlphaFold · HPA

Whether an antibody against HSF1 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)
0.59
Highest tissue expression
127 nTPM

Expression across tissuesHPA

Tissue

  • heart muscle: 127 nTPM
  • skeletal muscle: 120 nTPM
  • testis: 103 nTPM
  • blood vessel: 67 nTPM
  • colon: 67 nTPM
  • pancreas: 66 nTPM

Single-cell type

  • renal connecting tubule cells: 47 nCPM
  • renal collecting duct intercalated cells: 46 nCPM
  • renal collecting duct principal cells: 45 nCPM
  • papillary tip epithelial cells: 45 nCPM
  • distal convoluted tubule cells: 42 nCPM
  • loop of henle epithelial cells: 36 nCPM

Immune cell

  • non-classical monocyte: 32 nTPM
  • eosinophil: 26 nTPM
  • intermediate monocyte: 25 nTPM
  • myeloid DC: 25 nTPM
  • classical monocyte: 23 nTPM
  • T-reg: 23 nTPM

Brain region

  • medulla oblongata: 32 nTPM
  • thalamus: 31 nTPM
  • midbrain: 30 nTPM
  • pons: 27 nTPM
  • amygdala: 27 nTPM
  • hypothalamus: 25 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)
0.41
gnomAD pLI
0.75
gnomAD missense Z
0.75
DepMap mean gene effect
-0.28
DepMap dependency class
selective

Cancer expressionTCGA

Across TCGA tumor cohorts, this protein is over-expressed in roughly 20% 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 HSF1 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 HSF1 as an antibody target. Whether an autoantibody or antibody against HSF1 could matter depends on whether native HSF1 is physically reachable, whether the body needs it intact, and whether it acts in a disease-relevant tissue.

HSF1 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 HSF1 as an autoantigen. Seroatlas presents hypothesis context only and does not manufacture a known-serology claim.

Canonical record: https://seroatlas.com/gene/HSF1. 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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