Seroatlas · Human Serome Atlas

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 KSSGEMEVD

LocalizationUniProt · 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.

Canonical record: https://seroatlas.com/gene/HSPA4L. 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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