Seroatlas · Human Serome Atlas

MAPK13

Mitogen-activated protein kinase 13

Also known as: MK13_HUMAN, p38delta, PRKM13, SAPK4

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

Protein identityUniProt · HPA

UniProt accession
O15264
Gene
MAPK13
Ensembl
ENSG00000156711
Chromosome
6
Canonical length
365 aa
Protein class
Enzymes, Predicted intracellular proteins
Subcellular location
Nucleoplasm,Nucleoli,Nucleoli rim,Cytosol

OverviewNCBI Gene

This gene encodes a member of the mitogen-activated protein (MAP) kinase family. MAP kinases act as an integration point for multiple biochemical signals, and are involved in a wide variety of cellular processes such as proliferation, differentiation, transcription regulation and development. The encoded protein is a p38 MAP kinase and is activated by proinflammatory cytokines and cellular stress. Substrates of the encoded protein include the transcription factor ATF2 and the microtubule dynamics regulator stathmin. Alternatively spliced transcript variants have been observed for this gene. [provided by RefSeq, Jul 2012]

Canonical amino-acid sequenceUniProt

365 residues, UniProt reviewed canonical sequence.

>O15264|MAPK13
     1  MSLIRKKGFY KQDVNKTAWE LPKTYVSPTH VGSGAYGSVC SAIDKRSGEK VAIKKLSRPF
    61  QSEIFAKRAY RELLLLKHMQ HENVIGLLDV FTPASSLRNF YDFYLVMPFM QTDLQKIMGM
   121  EFSEEKIQYL VYQMLKGLKY IHSAGVVHRD LKPGNLAVNE DCELKILDFG LARHADAEMT
   181  GYVVTRWYRA PEVILSWMHY NQTVDIWSVG CIMAEMLTGK TLFKGKDYLD QLTQILKVTG
   241  VPGTEFVQKL NDKAAKSYIQ SLPQTPRKDF TQLFPRASPQ AADLLEKMLE LDVDKRLTAA
   301  QALTHPFFEP FRDPEEETEA QQPFDDSLEH EKLTVDEWKQ HIYKEIVNFS PIARKDSRRR
   361  SGMKL

LocalizationUniProt · AlphaFold · HPA

Whether an antibody against MAPK13 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
Intracellular
Secreted
No
Transmembrane segments
0
Mean surface accessibility (rSASA)
0.25
Highest tissue expression
46 nTPM

Expression across tissuesHPA

Tissue

  • esophagus: 46 nTPM
  • skin: 44 nTPM
  • parathyroid gland: 37 nTPM
  • small intestine: 34 nTPM
  • duodenum: 29 nTPM
  • adrenal gland: 27 nTPM

Single-cell type

  • esophageal apical cells: 475 nCPM
  • late spermatids: 457 nCPM
  • breast lactating cells: 316 nCPM
  • esophageal suprabasal cells: 262 nCPM
  • late primary spermatocytes: 200 nCPM
  • enterocytes: 172 nCPM

Immune cell

  • T-reg: 38 nTPM
  • naive B-cell: 22 nTPM
  • gdT-cell: 18 nTPM
  • memory CD8 T-cell: 15 nTPM
  • memory CD4 T-cell: 15 nTPM
  • naive CD8 T-cell: 15 nTPM

Brain region

  • cerebral cortex: 20 nTPM
  • hypothalamus: 20 nTPM
  • basal ganglia: 18 nTPM
  • white matter: 16 nTPM
  • amygdala: 11 nTPM
  • cerebellum: 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)
1.11
gnomAD pLI
0
gnomAD missense Z
0.47
DepMap mean gene effect
-0.09
DepMap dependency class
selective

Cancer expressionTCGA

Across TCGA tumor cohorts, this protein is over-expressed in roughly 6% 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

InteractionsUniProt · HPA

Protein binding partners of MAPK13 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 MAPK13 as an antibody target. Whether an autoantibody or antibody against MAPK13 could matter depends on whether native MAPK13 is physically reachable, whether the body needs it intact, and whether it acts in a disease-relevant tissue.

MAPK13 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 MAPK13 as an autoantigen. Seroatlas presents hypothesis context only and does not manufacture a known-serology claim.

Canonical record: https://seroatlas.com/gene/MAPK13. 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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