LY86
Lymphocyte antigen 86
Also known as: dJ80N2.1, LY86_HUMAN, MD-1
Cross-references: UniProt · Ensembl · Human Protein Atlas · GeneCards · NCBI Gene
Protein identityUniProt · HPA
- UniProt accession
- O95711
- Gene
- LY86
- Ensembl
- ENSG00000112799
- Chromosome
- 6
- Canonical length
- 162 aa
- Protein class
- Predicted secreted proteins
- Secretome location
- Secreted to blood
OverviewNCBI Gene
Acts upstream of or within positive regulation of lipopolysaccharide-mediated signaling pathway. Predicted to be located in extracellular region. [provided by Alliance of Genome Resources, Jul 2025]
Canonical amino-acid sequenceUniProt
162 residues, UniProt reviewed canonical sequence.
>O95711|LY86
1 MKGFTATLFL WTLIFPSCSG GGGGKAWPTH VVCSDSGLEV LYQSCDPLQD FGFSVEKCSK
61 QLKSNINIRF GIILREDIKE LFLDLALMSQ GSSVLNFSYP ICEAALPKFS FCGRRKGEQI
121 YYAGPVNNPE FTIPQGEYQV LLELYTEKRS TVACANATIM CSLocalizationUniProt · AlphaFold · HPA
Whether an antibody against LY86 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)
- 0.39
- Highest tissue expression
- 73 nTPM
Expression across tissuesHPA
Tissue
- tonsil: 73 nTPM
- lymph node: 67 nTPM
- spleen: 67 nTPM
- appendix: 29 nTPM
- lung: 28 nTPM
- spinal cord: 28 nTPM
Single-cell type
- microglia: 605 nCPM
- hofbauer cells: 230 nCPM
- b-cells: 225 nCPM
- kupffer cells: 223 nCPM
- cdc: 163 nCPM
- monocytes: 146 nCPM
Immune cell
- classical monocyte: 428 nTPM
- myeloid DC: 427 nTPM
- memory B-cell: 336 nTPM
- naive B-cell: 250 nTPM
- intermediate monocyte: 235 nTPM
- total PBMC: 221 nTPM
Brain region
- white matter: 31 nTPM
- medulla oblongata: 17 nTPM
- thalamus: 16 nTPM
- spinal cord: 15 nTPM
- hypothalamus: 12 nTPM
- pons: 11 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)
- 1.75
- gnomAD pLI
- 0
- gnomAD missense Z
- -0.34
- DepMap mean gene effect
- 0.01
- DepMap dependency class
- selective
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
- inflammatory response
- innate immune response
- lipopolysaccharide-mediated signaling pathway
- positive regulation of lipopolysaccharide-mediated signaling pathway
Cellular components
Protein domainsUniProt · Pfam · InterPro
- MD-2-related lipid-recognition domain
- Immunoglobulin E-set
- ML domain
- Lymphocyte antigen 86
KeywordsUniProt
InteractionsUniProt · HPA
Protein binding partners of LY86 in the human serome: UniProt-annotated complex subunits plus reported interactors. Each links to its own Seroatlas record.
Antibody and autoantibody relevanceSeroatlas analysis
Seroatlas reads LY86 as an antibody target. Whether an autoantibody or antibody against LY86 could matter depends on whether native LY86 is physically reachable, whether the body needs it intact, and whether it acts in a disease-relevant tissue.
LY86 is annotated as secreted, so native LY86 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 LY86 as an autoantigen. Seroatlas presents hypothesis context only and does not manufacture a known-serology claim.
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