Seroatlas · Human Serome Atlas

HSFY1

Heat shock transcription factor, Y-linked

Also known as: FLJ25453, HSF2L, HSFY, HSFY1_HUMAN, HSFY2

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

Protein identityUniProt · HPA

UniProt accession
Q96LI6
Gene
HSFY1
Ensembl
ENSG00000172468
Chromosome
Y
Canonical length
401 aa
Protein class
Predicted intracellular proteins, Transcription factors
Subcellular location
Nucleoplasm,Cytosol

OverviewNCBI Gene

This gene encodes a member of the heat shock factor (HSF) family of transcriptional activators for heat shock proteins. This gene is a candidate gene for azoospermia, since it localizes to a region of chromosome Y that is sometimes deleted in infertile males. The genome has two identical copies of this gene within a palindromic region; this record represents the more telomeric copy. Alternative splicing results in multiple transcript variants encoding distinct isoforms. [provided by RefSeq, Jul 2008]

Canonical amino-acid sequenceUniProt

401 residues, UniProt reviewed canonical sequence.

>Q96LI6|HSFY1
     1  MAHVSSETQD VSPKDELTAS EASTRSPLCE HTFPGDSDLR SMIEEHAFQV LSQGSLLESP
    61  SYTVCVSEPD KDDDFLSLNF PRKLWKIVES DQFKSISWDE NGTCIVINEE LFKKEILETK
   121  APYRIFQTDA IKSFVRQLNL YGFSKIQQNF QRSAFLATFL SEEKESSVLS KLKFYYNPNF
   181  KRGYPQLLVR VKRRIGVKNA SPISTLFNED FNKKHFRAGA NMENHNSALA AEASEESLFS
   241  ASKNLNMPLT RESSVRQIIA NSSVPIRSGF PPPSPSTSVG PSEQIATDQH AILNQLTTIH
   301  MHSHSTYMQA RGHIVNFITT TTSQYHIISP LQNGYFGLTV EPSAVPTRYP LVSVNEAPYR
   361  NMLPAGNPWL QMPTIADRSA APHSRLALQP SPLDKYHPNY N

LocalizationUniProt · AlphaFold · HPA

Whether an antibody against HSFY1 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
20 nTPM

Expression across tissuesHPA

Tissue

  • testis: 20 nTPM
  • hypothalamus: 0.6 nTPM
  • cerebellum: 0.4 nTPM
  • cerebral cortex: 0.4 nTPM
  • hippocampal formation: 0.3 nTPM
  • amygdala: 0.2 nTPM

Single-cell type

  • papillary tip epithelial cells: 0.4 nCPM
  • podocytes: 0.3 nCPM
  • proximal tubule cells: 0.3 nCPM
  • distal convoluted tubule cells: 0.2 nCPM
  • renal connecting tubule cells: 0.2 nCPM
  • early spermatids: 0.1 nCPM

Immune cell

  • basophil: 0 nTPM
  • classical monocyte: 0 nTPM
  • eosinophil: 0 nTPM
  • gdT-cell: 0 nTPM
  • intermediate monocyte: 0 nTPM
  • MAIT T-cell: 0 nTPM

Brain region

  • cerebral cortex: 2.4 nTPM
  • white matter: 1.9 nTPM
  • hypothalamus: 1.4 nTPM
  • pons: 1.2 nTPM
  • medulla oblongata: 1.1 nTPM
  • basal ganglia: 0.9 nTPM

OntologyGO

Molecular functions

Cellular components

Protein domainsUniProt · Pfam · InterPro

KeywordsUniProt

InteractionsUniProt · HPA

Protein binding partners of HSFY1 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 HSFY1 as an antibody target. Whether an autoantibody or antibody against HSFY1 could matter depends on whether native HSFY1 is physically reachable, whether the body needs it intact, and whether it acts in a disease-relevant tissue.

HSFY1 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 HSFY1 as an autoantigen. Seroatlas presents hypothesis context only and does not manufacture a known-serology claim.

Canonical record: https://seroatlas.com/gene/HSFY1. 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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