Seroatlas · Human Serome Atlas

IDUA

Alpha-L-iduronidase

Also known as: IDUA_HUMAN, MPS1, MPSI

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

Protein identityUniProt · HPA

UniProt accession
P35475
Gene
IDUA
Ensembl
ENSG00000127415
Chromosome
4
Canonical length
653 aa
Protein class
Disease related genes, Enzymes, Human disease related genes, Metabolic proteins, Plasma proteins, Potential drug targets, Predicted intracellular proteins
Subcellular location
Vesicles
Secretome location
Intracellular and membrane

OverviewNCBI Gene

This gene encodes an enzyme that hydrolyzes the terminal alpha-L-iduronic acid residues of two glycosaminoglycans, dermatan sulfate and heparan sulfate. This hydrolysis is required for the lysosomal degradation of these glycosaminoglycans. Mutations in this gene that result in enzymatic deficiency lead to the autosomal recessive disease mucopolysaccharidosis type I (MPS I). [provided by RefSeq, Jul 2008]

Canonical amino-acid sequenceUniProt

653 residues, UniProt reviewed canonical sequence.

>P35475|IDUA
     1  MRPLRPRAAL LALLASLLAA PPVAPAEAPH LVHVDAARAL WPLRRFWRST GFCPPLPHSQ
    61  ADQYVLSWDQ QLNLAYVGAV PHRGIKQVRT HWLLELVTTR GSTGRGLSYN FTHLDGYLDL
   121  LRENQLLPGF ELMGSASGHF TDFEDKQQVF EWKDLVSSLA RRYIGRYGLA HVSKWNFETW
   181  NEPDHHDFDN VSMTMQGFLN YYDACSEGLR AASPALRLGG PGDSFHTPPR SPLSWGLLRH
   241  CHDGTNFFTG EAGVRLDYIS LHRKGARSSI SILEQEKVVA QQIRQLFPKF ADTPIYNDEA
   301  DPLVGWSLPQ PWRADVTYAA MVVKVIAQHQ NLLLANTTSA FPYALLSNDN AFLSYHPHPF
   361  AQRTLTARFQ VNNTRPPHVQ LLRKPVLTAM GLLALLDEEQ LWAEVSQAGT VLDSNHTVGV
   421  LASAHRPQGP ADAWRAAVLI YASDDTRAHP NRSVAVTLRL RGVPPGPGLV YVTRYLDNGL
   481  CSPDGEWRRL GRPVFPTAEQ FRRMRAAEDP VAAAPRPLPA GGRLTLRPAL RLPSLLLVHV
   541  CARPEKPPGQ VTRLRALPLT QGQLVLVWSD EHVGSKCLWT YEIQFSQDGK AYTPVSRKPS
   601  TFNLFVFSPD TGAVSGSYRV RALDYWARPG PFSDPVPYLE VPVPRGPPSP GNP

LocalizationUniProt · AlphaFold · HPA

Whether an antibody against IDUA 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)
0.23
Highest tissue expression
31 nTPM

Expression across tissuesHPA

Tissue

  • cerebellum: 31 nTPM
  • pancreas: 15 nTPM
  • cervix: 15 nTPM
  • ovary: 14 nTPM
  • pituitary gland: 14 nTPM
  • adrenal gland: 14 nTPM

Single-cell type

  • hepatic stellate cells: 26 nCPM
  • mucous neck cells: 24 nCPM
  • tuft cells: 23 nCPM
  • adrenal medulla cells: 21 nCPM
  • leydig cells: 20 nCPM
  • breast lactating cells: 18 nCPM

Immune cell

  • MAIT T-cell: 1.8 nTPM
  • myeloid DC: 1.8 nTPM
  • non-classical monocyte: 1.7 nTPM
  • classical monocyte: 1.5 nTPM
  • NK-cell: 1.5 nTPM
  • gdT-cell: 1.4 nTPM

Brain region

  • cerebellum: 28 nTPM
  • cerebral cortex: 22 nTPM
  • hippocampal formation: 17 nTPM
  • amygdala: 16 nTPM
  • basal ganglia: 16 nTPM
  • medulla oblongata: 16 nTPM

DiseaseUniProt · ClinVar · IEDB · PubMed

Four sources answering four different questions about IDUA.

Disease | AllUniProt

Conditions IDUA is implicated in, by any mechanism.

Disease | GeneticClinVar

418 pathogenic / likely-pathogenic of 1,932 ClinVar records.

Conditions with pathogenic or likely-pathogenic variants.

ReferencesPubMed · IEDB

Publications for IDUA from three distinct lines of evidence, kept separate because they answer different questions: whether antibodies are directed at the protein, whether a B-cell epitope has been mapped on it, and whether a T-cell epitope has. Each is labelled with its source.

Sources: PubMed — antigen-level antibody evidence from a custom retrieval. Records matching a controlled set of autoantibody terms (the MeSH descriptors Autoantibodies and Autoantigens, with title and abstract term variants) were obtained through NCBI E-utilities, and their titles and abstracts parsed for constructions that direct an antibody at a named protein rather than for co-occurrence. Captured names were resolved against UniProt nomenclature and each antigen adjudicated individually against the source text. Bibliographic records from PubMed and MeSH, U.S. National Library of Medicine; citation metrics from NIH iCite (Hutchins et al., PLoS Biology 2016). Titles link to PubMed; abstracts are not reproduced here. The NLM does not endorse this analysis.

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)
1.17
gnomAD pLI
0
gnomAD missense Z
-0.6
DepMap mean gene effect
0.06
DepMap dependency class
selective

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

  • Immunoglobulin-like fold
  • Glycoside hydrolase superfamily
  • Glycoside hydrolase, family 39
  • Glycosyl hydrolases family 39, active site
  • Glycosyl hydrolases family 39, N-terminal catalytic domain
  • Alpha-L-iduronidase, C-terminal domain
  • Glycosyl Hydrolase Family 39
  • Glycosyl hydrolases family 39
  • Alpha-L-iduronidase C-terminal domain

KeywordsUniProt

InteractionsUniProt · HPA

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

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

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