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LYZL4

Lysozyme-like protein 4

Also known as: LYC4, LYZL4_HUMAN, MGC26768

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

Protein identityUniProt · HPA

UniProt accession
Q96KX0
Gene
LYZL4
Ensembl
ENSG00000157093
Chromosome
3
Canonical length
146 aa
Protein class
Predicted secreted proteins
Subcellular location
Principal piece,End piece
Secretome location
Secreted in male reproductive system

OverviewNCBI Gene

Lysozymes (see LYZ; MIM 153450), especially C-type lysozymes, are well-recognized bacteriolytic factors widely distributed in the animal kingdom and play a mainly protective role in host defense. LYZL4 is a member of a family of lysozyme-like genes (Zhang et al., 2005 [PubMed 16014814]).[supplied by OMIM, Apr 2009]

Canonical amino-acid sequenceUniProt

146 residues, UniProt reviewed canonical sequence.

>Q96KX0|LYZL4
     1  MKASVVLSLL GYLVVPSGAY ILGRCTVAKK LHDGGLDYFE GYSLENWVCL AYFESKFNPM
    61  AIYENTREGY TGFGLFQMRG SDWCGDHGRN RCHMSCSALL NPNLEKTIKC AKTIVKGKEG
   121  MGAWPTWSRY CQYSDTLARW LDGCKL

LocalizationUniProt · AlphaFold · HPA

Whether an antibody against LYZL4 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)
0.34
Highest tissue expression
50 nTPM

Expression across tissuesHPA

Tissue

  • testis: 50 nTPM
  • retina: 1 nTPM
  • cerebral cortex: 0.5 nTPM
  • amygdala: 0.4 nTPM
  • hippocampal formation: 0.2 nTPM
  • basal ganglia: 0.1 nTPM

Single-cell type

  • early spermatids: 375 nCPM
  • late primary spermatocytes: 270 nCPM
  • late spermatids: 196 nCPM
  • sertoli cells: 3.6 nCPM
  • ependymal cells: 1.5 nCPM
  • peritubular myoid cells: 1.5 nCPM

Immune cell

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

Brain region

  • cerebral cortex: 2.6 nTPM
  • basal ganglia: 0.7 nTPM
  • amygdala: 0.6 nTPM
  • hippocampal formation: 0.6 nTPM
  • white matter: 0.4 nTPM
  • medulla oblongata: 0.2 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)
0.74
gnomAD pLI
0.53
gnomAD missense Z
0.5
DepMap mean gene effect
0.01
DepMap dependency class
none

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 LYZL4 as an antibody target. Whether an autoantibody or antibody against LYZL4 could matter depends on whether native LYZL4 is physically reachable, whether the body needs it intact, and whether it acts in a disease-relevant tissue.

LYZL4 is annotated as secreted, so native LYZL4 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 LYZL4 as an autoantigen. Seroatlas presents hypothesis context only and does not manufacture a known-serology claim.

Canonical record: https://seroatlas.com/gene/LYZL4. 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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