HSPA4L
Heat shock 70 kDa protein 4L
Also known as: APG-1, HS74L_HUMAN, HSPH3, Osp94
Cross-references: UniProt · Ensembl · Human Protein Atlas · GeneCards · NCBI Gene
Protein identityUniProt · HPA
- UniProt accession
- O95757
- Gene
- HSPA4L
- Ensembl
- ENSG00000164070
- Chromosome
- 4
- Canonical length
- 839 aa
- Protein class
- Plasma proteins, Predicted intracellular proteins
- Subcellular location
- Centrosome,Cytosol,Perinuclear theca,Calyx
- Quaternary structure
- Homodimer
OverviewNCBI Gene
The protein encoded by this gene is heat shock inducible and may act as a chaperone. The encoded protein can protect the heat-shocked cell against the harmful effects of aggregated proteins. This gene is highly expressed in leukemia cells and may be a good target for therapeutic intervention. Several transcripts encoding different isoforms have been found for this gene. [provided by RefSeq, Dec 2015]
Canonical amino-acid sequenceUniProt
839 residues, UniProt reviewed canonical sequence.
>O95757|HSPA4L
1 MSVVGIDLGF LNCYIAVARS GGIETIANEY SDRCTPACIS LGSRTRAIGN AAKSQIVTNV
61 RNTIHGFKKL HGRSFDDPIV QTERIRLPYE LQKMPNGSAG VKVRYLEEER PFAIEQVTGM
121 LLAKLKETSE NALKKPVADC VISIPSFFTD AERRSVMAAA QVAGLNCLRL MNETTAVALA
181 YGIYKQDLPP LDEKPRNVVF IDMGHSAYQV LVCAFNKGKL KVLATTFDPY LGGRNFDEAL
241 VDYFCDEFKT KYKINVKENS RALLRLYQEC EKLKKLMSAN ASDLPLNIEC FMNDLDVSSK
301 MNRAQFEQLC ASLLARVEPP LKAVMEQANL QREDISSIEI VGGATRIPAV KEQITKFFLK
361 DISTTLNADE AVARGCALQC AILSPAFKVR EFSITDLVPY SITLRWKTSF EDGSGECEVF
421 CKNHPAPFSK VITFHKKEPF ELEAFYTNLH EVPYPDARIG SFTIQNVFPQ SDGDSSKVKV
481 KVRVNIHGIF SVASASVIEK QNLEGDHSDA PMETETSFKN ENKDNMDKMQ VDQEEGHQKC
541 HAEHTPEEEI DHTGAKTKSA VSDKQDRLNQ TLKKGKVKSI DLPIQSSLCR QLGQDLLNSY
601 IENEGKMIMQ DKLEKERNDA KNAVEEYVYD FRDRLGTVYE KFITPEDLSK LSAVLEDTEN
661 WLYEDGEDQP KQVYVDKLQE LKKYGQPIQM KYMEHEERPK ALNDLGKKIQ LVMKVIEAYR
721 NKDERYDHLD PTEMEKVEKC ISDAMSWLNS KMNAQNKLSL TQDPVVKVSE IVAKSKELDN
781 FCNPIIYKPK PKAEVPEDKP KANSEHNGPM DGQSGTETKS DSTKDSSQHT KSSGEMEVDLocalizationUniProt · AlphaFold · HPA
Whether an antibody against HSPA4L 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)
- 0.31
- Highest tissue expression
- 102 nTPM
Expression across tissuesHPA
Tissue
- testis: 102 nTPM
- retina: 25 nTPM
- esophagus: 13 nTPM
- kidney: 12 nTPM
- adrenal gland: 11 nTPM
- parathyroid gland: 11 nTPM
Single-cell type
- late spermatids: 1,609 nCPM
- early spermatids: 539 nCPM
- late primary spermatocytes: 410 nCPM
- pancreatic duct cells: 240 nCPM
- cone photoreceptor cells: 176 nCPM
- fallopian tube ciliated cells: 156 nCPM
Immune cell
- eosinophil: 1.1 nTPM
- basophil: 0.3 nTPM
- neutrophil: 0.2 nTPM
- myeloid DC: 0.1 nTPM
- naive B-cell: 0.1 nTPM
- naive CD4 T-cell: 0.1 nTPM
Brain region
- hypothalamus: 91 nTPM
- pons: 67 nTPM
- cerebral cortex: 67 nTPM
- cerebellum: 66 nTPM
- midbrain: 58 nTPM
- thalamus: 56 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)
- 0.62
- gnomAD pLI
- 0
- gnomAD missense Z
- 1
- DepMap mean gene effect
- 0.05
- DepMap dependency class
- none
Cancer expressionTCGA
Across TCGA tumor cohorts, this protein is over-expressed in roughly 4% 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 HSPA4L 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 HSPA4L as an antibody target. Whether an autoantibody or antibody against HSPA4L could matter depends on whether native HSPA4L is physically reachable, whether the body needs it intact, and whether it acts in a disease-relevant tissue.
HSPA4L 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 HSPA4L as an autoantigen. Seroatlas presents hypothesis context only and does not manufacture a known-serology claim.
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