Seroatlas · Human Serome Atlas

MBLAC2

Acyl-coenzyme A thioesterase MBLAC2

Also known as: DKFZp686P15118, MBLC2_HUMAN, MGC46734

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

Protein identityUniProt · HPA

UniProt accession
Q68D91
Gene
MBLAC2
Ensembl
ENSG00000176055
Chromosome
5
Canonical length
279 aa
Protein class
Enzymes, Predicted intracellular proteins
Subcellular location
Nucleoplasm,Mitochondria

OverviewNCBI Gene

Enables beta-lactamase activity and long-chain fatty acyl-CoA hydrolase activity. Predicted to be involved in fatty acid metabolic process. Located in endoplasmic reticulum membrane and plasma membrane. [provided by Alliance of Genome Resources, Jul 2025]

Canonical amino-acid sequenceUniProt

279 residues, UniProt reviewed canonical sequence.

>Q68D91|MBLAC2
     1  MSALEWYAHK SLGDGIFWIQ ERFYESGNRA NIWLVRGSEQ DVVIDTGLGL RSLPEYLYSS
    61  GLLQDREAKE DAARRPLLAV ATHVHFDHSG GLYQFDRVAV HHAEAEALAR GDNFETVTWL
   121  SDSEVVRTPS PGWRARQFRV QAVQPTLILQ DGDVINLGDR QLTVMHMPGH SRGSICLHDK
   181  DRKILFSGDV VYDGSLIDWL PYSRISDYVG TCERLIELVD RGLVEKVLPG HFNTFGAERL
   241  FRLASNYISK AGICHKVSTF AMRSLASLAL RVTNSRTSP

LocalizationUniProt · AlphaFold · HPA

Whether an antibody against MBLAC2 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
Cell surface
Secreted
No
Transmembrane segments
0
Mean surface accessibility (rSASA)
0.24
Highest tissue expression
7.6 nTPM

Expression across tissuesHPA

Tissue

  • parathyroid gland: 7.6 nTPM
  • ovary: 7 nTPM
  • cerebral cortex: 6.5 nTPM
  • cerebellum: 6.1 nTPM
  • liver: 5.9 nTPM
  • hypothalamus: 5.2 nTPM

Single-cell type

  • cone photoreceptor cells: 39 nCPM
  • corticotrophs: 29 nCPM
  • other brain neurons: 22 nCPM
  • brain inhibitory neurons: 22 nCPM
  • adrenal medulla cells: 21 nCPM
  • brain excitatory neurons: 20 nCPM

Immune cell

  • naive B-cell: 2.4 nTPM
  • naive CD4 T-cell: 2 nTPM
  • intermediate monocyte: 1.8 nTPM
  • MAIT T-cell: 1.6 nTPM
  • naive CD8 T-cell: 1.6 nTPM
  • NK-cell: 1.6 nTPM

Brain region

  • hypothalamus: 16 nTPM
  • midbrain: 14 nTPM
  • cerebral cortex: 13 nTPM
  • cerebellum: 13 nTPM
  • hippocampal formation: 13 nTPM
  • white matter: 13 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)
1.29
gnomAD pLI
0
gnomAD missense Z
0.59
DepMap mean gene effect
0.13
DepMap dependency class
selective

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 MBLAC2 as an antibody target. Whether an autoantibody or antibody against MBLAC2 could matter depends on whether native MBLAC2 is physically reachable, whether the body needs it intact, and whether it acts in a disease-relevant tissue.

MBLAC2 is annotated at the cell surface, where native MBLAC2 is exposed to circulating antibodies and is a prime autoantibody target that could block, deplete, or overstimulate it.

Annotation status

The present source text does not explicitly label MBLAC2 as an autoantigen. Seroatlas presents hypothesis context only and does not manufacture a known-serology claim.

Canonical record: https://seroatlas.com/gene/MBLAC2. 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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