Seroatlas · Human Serome Atlas

MMP16

Matrix metalloproteinase-16

Also known as: C8orf57, DKFZp761D112, MMP16_HUMAN, MT3-MMP

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

Protein identityUniProt · HPA

UniProt accession
P51512
Gene
MMP16
Ensembl
ENSG00000156103
Chromosome
8
Canonical length
607 aa
Protein class
Cancer-related genes, Enzymes, Predicted intracellular proteins, Predicted membrane proteins, Predicted secreted proteins
Subcellular location
Vesicles,Cytosol
Secretome location
Secreted to extracellular matrix

OverviewNCBI Gene

Proteins of the matrix metalloproteinase (MMP) family are involved in the breakdown of extracellular matrix in normal physiological processes, such as embryonic development, reproduction, and tissue remodeling, as well as in disease processes, such as arthritis and metastasis. Most MMP's are secreted as inactive proproteins which are activated when cleaved by extracellular proteinases. The encoded protein activates MMP2 by cleavage. This gene was once referred to as MT-MMP2, but was renamed as MT-MMP3 or MMP16. [provided by RefSeq, Oct 2010]

Canonical amino-acid sequenceUniProt

607 residues, UniProt reviewed canonical sequence.

>P51512|MMP16
     1  MILLTFSTGR RLDFVHHSGV FFLQTLLWIL CATVCGTEQY FNVEVWLQKY GYLPPTDPRM
    61  SVLRSAETMQ SALAAMQQFY GINMTGKVDR NTIDWMKKPR CGVPDQTRGS SKFHIRRKRY
   121  ALTGQKWQHK HITYSIKNVT PKVGDPETRK AIRRAFDVWQ NVTPLTFEEV PYSELENGKR
   181  DVDITIIFAS GFHGDSSPFD GEGGFLAHAY FPGPGIGGDT HFDSDEPWTL GNPNHDGNDL
   241  FLVAVHELGH ALGLEHSNDP TAIMAPFYQY METDNFKLPN DDLQGIQKIY GPPDKIPPPT
   301  RPLPTVPPHR SIPPADPRKN DRPKPPRPPT GRPSYPGAKP NICDGNFNTL AILRREMFVF
   361  KDQWFWRVRN NRVMDGYPMQ ITYFWRGLPP SIDAVYENSD GNFVFFKGNK YWVFKDTTLQ
   421  PGYPHDLITL GSGIPPHGID SAIWWEDVGK TYFFKGDRYW RYSEEMKTMD PGYPKPITVW
   481  KGIPESPQGA FVHKENGFTY FYKGKEYWKF NNQILKVEPG YPRSILKDFM GCDGPTDRVK
   541  EGHSPPDDVD IVIKLDNTAS TVKAIAIVIP CILALCLLVL VYTVFQFKRK GTPRHILYCK
   601  RSMQEWV

LocalizationUniProt · AlphaFold · HPA

Whether an antibody against MMP16 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
1
Mean surface accessibility (rSASA)
0.36
Highest tissue expression
5.3 nTPM

Expression across tissuesHPA

Tissue

  • cerebral cortex: 5.3 nTPM
  • amygdala: 2.7 nTPM
  • hypothalamus: 2.5 nTPM
  • gallbladder: 2.4 nTPM
  • hippocampal formation: 2.4 nTPM
  • blood vessel: 2.2 nTPM

Single-cell type

  • oligodendrocyte progenitor cells: 2,339 nCPM
  • other brain neurons: 381 nCPM
  • brain excitatory neurons: 358 nCPM
  • oligodendrocytes: 312 nCPM
  • brain inhibitory neurons: 265 nCPM
  • pancreatic islet cells: 236 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: 20 nTPM
  • basal ganglia: 18 nTPM
  • hypothalamus: 17 nTPM
  • white matter: 15 nTPM
  • amygdala: 15 nTPM
  • cerebellum: 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)
0.35
gnomAD pLI
0.92
gnomAD missense Z
3.52
DepMap mean gene effect
0.06
DepMap dependency class
none

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

Molecular functions

Cellular components

Protein domainsUniProt · Pfam · InterPro

KeywordsUniProt

InteractionsUniProt · HPA

Protein binding partners of MMP16 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 MMP16 as an antibody target. Whether an autoantibody or antibody against MMP16 could matter depends on whether native MMP16 is physically reachable, whether the body needs it intact, and whether it acts in a disease-relevant tissue.

MMP16 is annotated at the cell surface, where native MMP16 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 MMP16 as an autoantigen. Seroatlas presents hypothesis context only and does not manufacture a known-serology claim.

Canonical record: https://seroatlas.com/gene/MMP16. 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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