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INSL5

Insulin-like peptide INSL5

Also known as: INSL5_HUMAN

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

Protein identityUniProt · HPA

UniProt accession
Q9Y5Q6
Gene
INSL5
Ensembl
ENSG00000172410
Chromosome
1
Canonical length
135 aa
Protein class
Predicted secreted proteins
Secretome location
Secreted to blood

OverviewNCBI Gene

The protein encoded by this gene contains a classical signature of the insulin superfamily and is highly similar to relaxin 3 (RLN3/INSL7). [provided by RefSeq, Jul 2008]

Canonical amino-acid sequenceUniProt

135 residues, UniProt reviewed canonical sequence.

>Q9Y5Q6|INSL5
     1  MKGSIFTLFL FSVLFAISEV RSKESVRLCG LEYIRTVIYI CASSRWRRHQ EGIPQAQQAE
    61  TGNSFQLPHK REFSEENPAQ NLPKVDASGE DRLWGGQMPT EELWKSKKHS VMSRQDLQTL
   121  CCTDGCSMTD LSALC

LocalizationUniProt · AlphaFold · HPA

Whether an antibody against INSL5 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
Secreted
Secreted
Yes
Transmembrane segments
0
Mean surface accessibility (rSASA)
0.56
Highest tissue expression
115 nTPM

Expression across tissuesHPA

Tissue

  • rectum: 115 nTPM
  • colon: 68 nTPM
  • choroid plexus: 1 nTPM
  • hypothalamus: 0.5 nTPM
  • basal ganglia: 0.4 nTPM
  • hippocampal formation: 0.4 nTPM

Single-cell type

  • neuroendocrine cells: 4,176 nCPM
  • enteric transient amplifying cells: 9.1 nCPM
  • colonocytes: 8.4 nCPM
  • enteric stem cells: 7.1 nCPM
  • ependymal cells: 3.6 nCPM
  • goblet cells: 2.8 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

  • choroid plexus: 1 nTPM
  • medulla oblongata: 0.9 nTPM
  • midbrain: 0.6 nTPM
  • spinal cord: 0.5 nTPM
  • basal ganglia: 0.4 nTPM
  • cerebral cortex: 0.4 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)
1.78
gnomAD pLI
0.14
gnomAD missense Z
-0.05
DepMap mean gene effect
-0.08
DepMap dependency class
none

Cancer expressionTCGA

Across TCGA tumor cohorts, this protein is over-expressed in roughly 3% 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

Antibody and autoantibody relevanceSeroatlas analysis

Seroatlas reads INSL5 as an antibody target. Whether an autoantibody or antibody against INSL5 could matter depends on whether native INSL5 is physically reachable, whether the body needs it intact, and whether it acts in a disease-relevant tissue.

INSL5 is annotated as secreted, so native INSL5 circulates and is directly accessible to antibodies. Secreted and cell-surface proteins are the autoantibody targets most likely to act like drugs, blocking or depleting the native protein.

Annotation status

The present source text does not explicitly label INSL5 as an autoantigen. Seroatlas presents hypothesis context only and does not manufacture a known-serology claim.

Canonical record: https://seroatlas.com/gene/INSL5. 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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