Seroatlas · Human Serome Atlas

LIPN

Lipase member N

Also known as: bA186O14.3, LIPL4, LIPN_HUMAN

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

Protein identityUniProt · HPA

UniProt accession
Q5VXI9
Gene
LIPN
Ensembl
ENSG00000204020
Chromosome
10
Canonical length
398 aa
Protein class
Disease related genes, Human disease related genes, Predicted secreted proteins
Secretome location
Secreted in other tissues

OverviewNCBI Gene

The gene encodes a lipase that is highly expressed in granular keratinocytes in the epidermis, and plays a role in the differentiation of keratinocytes. Mutations in this gene are associated with lamellar ichthyosis type 4. [provided by RefSeq, Dec 2011]

Canonical amino-acid sequenceUniProt

398 residues, UniProt reviewed canonical sequence.

>Q5VXI9|LIPN
     1  MMWLLLTTTC LICGTLNAGG FLDLENEVNP EVWMNTSEII IYNGYPSEEY EVTTEDGYIL
    61  LVNRIPYGRT HARSTGPRPV VYMQHALFAD NAYWLENYAN GSLGFLLADA GYDVWMGNSR
   121  GNTWSRRHKT LSETDEKFWA FSFDEMAKYD LPGVIDFIVN KTGQEKLYFI GHSLGTTIGF
   181  VAFSTMPELA QRIKMNFALG PTISFKYPTG IFTRFFLLPN SIIKAVFGTK GFFLEDKKTK
   241  IASTKICNNK ILWLICSEFM SLWAGSNKKN MNQSRMDVYM SHAPTGSSVH NILHIKQLYH
   301  SDEFRAYDWG NDADNMKHYN QSHPPIYDLT AMKVPTAIWA GGHDVLVTPQ DVARILPQIK
   361  SLHYFKLLPD WNHFDFVWGL DAPQRMYSEI IALMKAYS

LocalizationUniProt · AlphaFold · HPA

Whether an antibody against LIPN 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)
0.22
Highest tissue expression
25 nTPM

Expression across tissuesHPA

Tissue

  • skin: 25 nTPM
  • bone marrow: 2.7 nTPM
  • appendix: 2.6 nTPM
  • spleen: 1.8 nTPM
  • breast: 1.6 nTPM
  • adipose tissue: 1.2 nTPM

Single-cell type

  • neutrophils: 253 nCPM
  • monocytes: 80 nCPM
  • neutrophil progenitors: 22 nCPM
  • cdc: 15 nCPM
  • macrophages: 8.8 nCPM
  • suprabasal keratinocytes: 5.3 nCPM

Immune cell

  • eosinophil: 10 nTPM
  • non-classical monocyte: 8.5 nTPM
  • intermediate monocyte: 7.5 nTPM
  • neutrophil: 5.4 nTPM
  • classical monocyte: 2.9 nTPM
  • basophil: 1.1 nTPM

Brain region

  • pons: 0.6 nTPM
  • medulla oblongata: 0.4 nTPM
  • cerebral cortex: 0.2 nTPM
  • choroid plexus: 0.2 nTPM
  • midbrain: 0.2 nTPM
  • spinal cord: 0.2 nTPM

DiseaseUniProt · ClinVar · IEDB · PubMed

Four sources answering four different questions about LIPN.

Disease | AllUniProt

Conditions LIPN is implicated in, by any mechanism.

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)
0.94
gnomAD pLI
0
gnomAD missense Z
-0.1
DepMap mean gene effect
0.05
DepMap dependency class
none

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

KeywordsUniProt

Antibody and autoantibody relevanceSeroatlas analysis

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

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

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