Seroatlas · Human Serome Atlas

LGALSL

Galectin-related protein

Also known as: GRP, HSPC159, LEGL_HUMAN

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

Protein identityUniProt · HPA

UniProt accession
Q3ZCW2
Gene
LGALSL
Ensembl
ENSG00000119862
Chromosome
2
Canonical length
172 aa
Protein class
Plasma proteins, Predicted intracellular proteins
Subcellular location
Nucleoplasm

OverviewNCBI Gene

Predicted to enable carbohydrate binding activity. [provided by Alliance of Genome Resources, Jul 2025]

Canonical amino-acid sequenceUniProt

172 residues, UniProt reviewed canonical sequence.

>Q3ZCW2|LGALSL
     1  MAGSVADSDA VVKLDDGHLN NSLSSPVQAD VYFPRLIVPF CGHIKGGMRP GKKVLVMGIV
    61  DLNPESFAIS LTCGDSEDPP ADVAIELKAV FTDRQLLRNS CISGERGEEQ SAIPYFPFIP
   121  DQPFRVEILC EHPRFRVFVD GHQLFDFYHR IQTLSAIDTI KINGDLQITK LG

LocalizationUniProt · AlphaFold · HPA

Whether an antibody against LGALSL 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
Unknown
Secreted
No
Transmembrane segments
0
Mean surface accessibility (rSASA)
0.37
Highest tissue expression
88 nTPM

Expression across tissuesHPA

Tissue

  • skin: 88 nTPM
  • retina: 84 nTPM
  • skeletal muscle: 56 nTPM
  • esophagus: 23 nTPM
  • parathyroid gland: 18 nTPM
  • tongue: 17 nTPM

Single-cell type

  • platelets: 923 nCPM
  • megakaryocytes: 631 nCPM
  • ocular epithelial cells: 424 nCPM
  • suprabasal keratinocytes: 171 nCPM
  • breast secretory cells: 113 nCPM
  • rod photoreceptor cells: 106 nCPM

Immune cell

  • neutrophil: 1.6 nTPM
  • eosinophil: 1.5 nTPM
  • total PBMC: 1.4 nTPM
  • MAIT T-cell: 0.7 nTPM
  • classical monocyte: 0.1 nTPM
  • memory B-cell: 0.1 nTPM

Brain region

  • cerebellum: 19 nTPM
  • choroid plexus: 17 nTPM
  • hypothalamus: 17 nTPM
  • basal ganglia: 16 nTPM
  • cerebral cortex: 15 nTPM
  • white matter: 12 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)
1.04
gnomAD pLI
0.02
gnomAD missense Z
0.99
DepMap mean gene effect
-0.02
DepMap dependency class
none

Cancer expressionTCGA

Across TCGA tumor cohorts, this protein is over-expressed in roughly 5% of surveyed tumor types (aggregate summary; per-cohort expression, alteration, and survival load in the interactive view).

OntologyGO

Molecular functions

Protein domainsUniProt · Pfam · InterPro

KeywordsUniProt

Antibody and autoantibody relevanceSeroatlas analysis

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

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

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