Seroatlas · Human Serome Atlas

LGALS4

Galectin-4

Also known as: GAL4, LEG4_HUMAN

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

Protein identityUniProt · HPA

UniProt accession
P56470
Gene
LGALS4
Ensembl
ENSG00000171747
Chromosome
19
Canonical length
323 aa
Protein class
Cancer-related genes, Plasma proteins, Predicted intracellular proteins
Subcellular location
Plasma membrane

OverviewNCBI Gene

The galectins are a family of beta-galactoside-binding proteins implicated in modulating cell-cell and cell-matrix interactions. The expression of this gene is restricted to small intestine, colon, and rectum, and it is underexpressed in colorectal cancer. [provided by RefSeq, Jul 2008]

Canonical amino-acid sequenceUniProt

323 residues, UniProt reviewed canonical sequence.

>P56470|LGALS4
     1  MAYVPAPGYQ PTYNPTLPYY QPIPGGLNVG MSVYIQGVAS EHMKRFFVNF VVGQDPGSDV
    61  AFHFNPRFDG WDKVVFNTLQ GGKWGSEERK RSMPFKKGAA FELVFIVLAE HYKVVVNGNP
   121  FYEYGHRLPL QMVTHLQVDG DLQLQSINFI GGQPLRPQGP PMMPPYPGPG HCHQQLNSLP
   181  TMEGPPTFNP PVPYFGRLQG GLTARRTIII KGYVPPTGKS FAINFKVGSS GDIALHINPR
   241  MGNGTVVRNS LLNGSWGSEE KKITHNPFGP GQFFDLSIRC GLDRFKVYAN GQHLFDFAHR
   301  LSAFQRVDTL EIQGDVTLSY VQI

LocalizationUniProt · AlphaFold · HPA

Whether an antibody against LGALS4 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
Cell surface
Secreted
No
Transmembrane segments
0
Mean surface accessibility (rSASA)
0.28
Highest tissue expression
1,827 nTPM

Expression across tissuesHPA

Tissue

  • colon: 1,827 nTPM
  • rectum: 876 nTPM
  • small intestine: 837 nTPM
  • duodenum: 764 nTPM
  • gallbladder: 129 nTPM
  • stomach: 128 nTPM

Single-cell type

  • colonocytes: 5,487 nCPM
  • goblet cells: 3,764 nCPM
  • enteric transient amplifying cells: 3,293 nCPM
  • enterocytes: 3,039 nCPM
  • enteric stem cells: 2,115 nCPM
  • paneth cells: 975 nCPM

Immune cell

  • basophil: 0.2 nTPM
  • classical monocyte: 0 nTPM
  • eosinophil: 0 nTPM
  • gdT-cell: 0 nTPM
  • intermediate monocyte: 0 nTPM
  • MAIT T-cell: 0 nTPM

Brain region

  • cerebellum: 0.9 nTPM
  • cerebral cortex: 0.8 nTPM
  • white matter: 0.7 nTPM
  • basal ganglia: 0.6 nTPM
  • thalamus: 0.6 nTPM
  • hippocampal formation: 0.5 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)
1.08
gnomAD pLI
0
gnomAD missense Z
0.64
DepMap mean gene effect
0.01
DepMap dependency class
selective

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 LGALS4 as an antibody target. Whether an autoantibody or antibody against LGALS4 could matter depends on whether native LGALS4 is physically reachable, whether the body needs it intact, and whether it acts in a disease-relevant tissue.

LGALS4 is annotated at the cell surface, where native LGALS4 is exposed to circulating antibodies and is a prime autoantibody target that could block, deplete, or overstimulate it.

Annotation status

The present source text does not explicitly label LGALS4 as an autoantigen. Seroatlas presents hypothesis context only and does not manufacture a known-serology claim.

Canonical record: https://seroatlas.com/gene/LGALS4. 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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