Seroatlas · Human Serome Atlas

KLK13

Kallikrein-13

Also known as: KLK-L4, KLK13_HUMAN

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

Protein identityUniProt · HPA

UniProt accession
Q9UKR3
Gene
KLK13
Ensembl
ENSG00000167759
Chromosome
19
Canonical length
277 aa
Protein class
Cancer-related genes, Enzymes, Predicted secreted proteins
Secretome location
Secreted in other tissues

OverviewNCBI Gene

Kallikreins are a subgroup of serine proteases having diverse physiological functions. Growing evidence suggests that many kallikreins are implicated in carcinogenesis and some have potential as novel cancer and other disease biomarkers. This gene is one of the fifteen kallikrein subfamily members located in a cluster on chromosome 19. Expression of this gene is regulated by steroid hormones and may be useful as a marker for breast cancer. [provided by RefSeq, Jan 2017]

Canonical amino-acid sequenceUniProt

277 residues, UniProt reviewed canonical sequence.

>Q9UKR3|KLK13
     1  MWPLALVIAS LTLALSGGVS QESSKVLNTN GTSGFLPGGY TCFPHSQPWQ AALLVQGRLL
    61  CGGVLVHPKW VLTAAHCLKE GLKVYLGKHA LGRVEAGEQV REVVHSIPHP EYRRSPTHLN
   121  HDHDIMLLEL QSPVQLTGYI QTLPLSHNNR LTPGTTCRVS GWGTTTSPQV NYPKTLQCAN
   181  IQLRSDEECR QVYPGKITDN MLCAGTKEGG KDSCEGDSGG PLVCNRTLYG IVSWGDFPCG
   241  QPDRPGVYTR VSRYVLWIRE TIRKYETQQQ KWLKGPQ

LocalizationUniProt · AlphaFold · HPA

Whether an antibody against KLK13 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)
0.31
Highest tissue expression
740 nTPM

Expression across tissuesHPA

Tissue

  • esophagus: 740 nTPM
  • vagina: 187 nTPM
  • cervix: 145 nTPM
  • salivary gland: 89 nTPM
  • tonsil: 60 nTPM
  • skin: 16 nTPM

Single-cell type

  • esophageal apical cells: 9,819 nCPM
  • esophageal suprabasal cells: 717 nCPM
  • late spermatids: 418 nCPM
  • suprabasal keratinocytes: 170 nCPM
  • tuft cells: 104 nCPM
  • esophageal basal cells: 62 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: 1.8 nTPM
  • midbrain: 0.9 nTPM
  • hippocampal formation: 0.2 nTPM
  • medulla oblongata: 0.2 nTPM
  • amygdala: 0.1 nTPM
  • basal ganglia: 0.1 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)
1.11
gnomAD pLI
0
gnomAD missense Z
0.38
DepMap mean gene effect
0.07
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 KLK13 as an antibody target. Whether an autoantibody or antibody against KLK13 could matter depends on whether native KLK13 is physically reachable, whether the body needs it intact, and whether it acts in a disease-relevant tissue.

KLK13 is annotated as secreted, so native KLK13 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 KLK13 as an autoantigen. Seroatlas presents hypothesis context only and does not manufacture a known-serology claim.

Canonical record: https://seroatlas.com/gene/KLK13. 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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