Seroatlas · Human Serome Atlas

LYSET

Lysosomal enzyme trafficking factor

Also known as: C14orf109, DKFZP564F1123, LYSET_HUMAN, TMEM251

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

Protein identityUniProt · HPA

UniProt accession
Q8N6I4
Gene
LYSET
Ensembl
ENSG00000153485
Chromosome
14
Canonical length
163 aa
Protein class
Disease related genes, Potential drug targets, Predicted membrane proteins, Transporters
Subcellular location
Golgi apparatus,Cell Junctions

OverviewNCBI Gene

Involved in lysosomal transport; lysosome organization; and regulation of vesicle-mediated transport. Located in Golgi cisterna. [provided by Alliance of Genome Resources, Jul 2025]

Canonical amino-acid sequenceUniProt

163 residues, UniProt reviewed canonical sequence.

>Q8N6I4|LYSET
     1  MPKPPDYSEL SDSLTLAVGT GRFSGPLHRA WRMMNFRQRM GWIGVGLYLL ASAAAFYYVF
    61  EISETYNRLA LEHIQQHPEE PLEGTTWTHS LKAQLLSLPF WVWTVIFLVP YLQMFLFLYS
   121  CTRADPKTVG YCIIPICLAV ICNRHQAFVK ASNQISRLQL IDT

LocalizationUniProt · AlphaFold · HPA

Whether an antibody against LYSET 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
Other membrane
Secreted
No
Transmembrane segments
2
Mean surface accessibility (rSASA)
0.5
Highest tissue expression
32 nTPM

Expression across tissuesHPA

Tissue

  • kidney: 32 nTPM
  • skeletal muscle: 29 nTPM
  • prostate: 25 nTPM
  • heart muscle: 24 nTPM
  • colon: 22 nTPM
  • adrenal gland: 22 nTPM

Single-cell type

  • medullary thymic epithelial cells: 2.4 nCPM
  • gastric chief cells: 2.2 nCPM
  • melanocytes: 2.2 nCPM
  • parietal cells: 1.8 nCPM
  • breast myoepithelial cells: 0.9 nCPM
  • undifferentiated spermatogonia: 0.8 nCPM

Immune cell

  • eosinophil: 14 nTPM
  • non-classical monocyte: 13 nTPM
  • neutrophil: 11 nTPM
  • classical monocyte: 10 nTPM
  • intermediate monocyte: 9.6 nTPM
  • myeloid DC: 8.4 nTPM

Brain region

  • white matter: 91 nTPM
  • cerebral cortex: 65 nTPM
  • pons: 59 nTPM
  • hippocampal formation: 52 nTPM
  • hypothalamus: 51 nTPM
  • amygdala: 45 nTPM

DiseaseUniProt · ClinVar · IEDB · PubMed

Four sources answering four different questions about LYSET.

Disease | AllUniProt

Conditions LYSET is implicated in, by any mechanism.

Disease | GeneticClinVar

4 pathogenic / likely-pathogenic of 31 ClinVar records.

Conditions with pathogenic or likely-pathogenic variants.

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)
1.38
gnomAD pLI
0.01
DepMap mean gene effect
-0.05
DepMap dependency class
selective

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

Biological processes

Cellular components

Protein domainsUniProt · Pfam · InterPro

  • Lysosomal enzyme trafficking factor
  • Transmembrane protein 251

KeywordsUniProt

InteractionsUniProt · HPA

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

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

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