Seroatlas · Human Serome Atlas

MMP3

Stromelysin-1

Also known as: MMP3_HUMAN, STMY, STMY1

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

Protein identityUniProt · HPA

UniProt accession
P08254
Gene
MMP3
Ensembl
ENSG00000149968
Chromosome
11
Canonical length
477 aa
Protein class
Cancer-related genes, Candidate cardiovascular disease genes, Disease related genes, Enzymes, Human disease related genes, Plasma proteins, Potential drug targets, Predicted intracellular proteins, Predicted secreted proteins
Subcellular location
Vesicles
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. This gene encodes an enzyme which degrades fibronectin, laminin, collagens III, IV, IX, and X, and cartilage proteoglycans. The enzyme is thought to be involved in wound repair, progression of atherosclerosis, and tumor initiation. The gene is part of a cluster of MMP genes which localize to chromosome 11q22.3. [provided by RefSeq, Jul 2008]

Canonical amino-acid sequenceUniProt

477 residues, UniProt reviewed canonical sequence.

>P08254|MMP3
     1  MKSLPILLLL CVAVCSAYPL DGAARGEDTS MNLVQKYLEN YYDLKKDVKQ FVRRKDSGPV
    61  VKKIREMQKF LGLEVTGKLD SDTLEVMRKP RCGVPDVGHF RTFPGIPKWR KTHLTYRIVN
   121  YTPDLPKDAV DSAVEKALKV WEEVTPLTFS RLYEGEADIM ISFAVREHGD FYPFDGPGNV
   181  LAHAYAPGPG INGDAHFDDD EQWTKDTTGT NLFLVAAHEI GHSLGLFHSA NTEALMYPLY
   241  HSLTDLTRFR LSQDDINGIQ SLYGPPPDSP ETPLVPTEPV PPEPGTPANC DPALSFDAVS
   301  TLRGEILIFK DRHFWRKSLR KLEPELHLIS SFWPSLPSGV DAAYEVTSKD LVFIFKGNQF
   361  WAIRGNEVRA GYPRGIHTLG FPPTVRKIDA AISDKEKNKT YFFVEDKYWR FDEKRNSMEP
   421  GFPKQIAEDF PGIDSKIDAV FEEFGFFYFF TGSSQLEFDP NAKKVTHTLK SNSWLNC

LocalizationUniProt · AlphaFold · HPA

Whether an antibody against MMP3 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)
0.27
Highest tissue expression
286 nTPM

Expression across tissuesHPA

Tissue

  • salivary gland: 286 nTPM
  • adipose tissue: 99 nTPM
  • skin: 72 nTPM
  • breast: 46 nTPM
  • skeletal muscle: 41 nTPM
  • endometrium: 36 nTPM

Single-cell type

  • fibroblasts: 89 nCPM
  • smooth muscle cells: 27 nCPM
  • early spermatids: 23 nCPM
  • extravillous trophoblasts: 21 nCPM
  • late primary spermatocytes: 21 nCPM
  • ocular epithelial cells: 18 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

  • thalamus: 15 nTPM
  • hypothalamus: 3.1 nTPM
  • cerebral cortex: 2.8 nTPM
  • medulla oblongata: 0.6 nTPM
  • midbrain: 0.6 nTPM
  • basal ganglia: 0.5 nTPM

DiseaseUniProt · ClinVar · IEDB · PubMed

Four sources answering four different questions about MMP3.

Disease | AllUniProt

Conditions MMP3 is implicated in, by any mechanism.

ReferencesPubMed · IEDB

Publications for MMP3 from three distinct lines of evidence, kept separate because they answer different questions: whether antibodies are directed at the protein, whether a B-cell epitope has been mapped on it, and whether a T-cell epitope has. Each is labelled with its source.

Reference: AutoantibodyPubMed

1 publication

Sources: PubMed — antigen-level antibody evidence from a custom retrieval. Records matching a controlled set of autoantibody terms (the MeSH descriptors Autoantibodies and Autoantigens, with title and abstract term variants) were obtained through NCBI E-utilities, and their titles and abstracts parsed for constructions that direct an antibody at a named protein rather than for co-occurrence. Captured names were resolved against UniProt nomenclature and each antigen adjudicated individually against the source text. Bibliographic records from PubMed and MeSH, U.S. National Library of Medicine; citation metrics from NIH iCite (Hutchins et al., PLoS Biology 2016). Titles link to PubMed; abstracts are not reproduced here. The NLM does not endorse this analysis.

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)
1.42
gnomAD pLI
0
gnomAD missense Z
-0.64
DepMap mean gene effect
0.04
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

InteractionsUniProt · HPA

Protein binding partners of MMP3 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 MMP3 as an antibody target. Whether an autoantibody or antibody against MMP3 could matter depends on whether native MMP3 is physically reachable, whether the body needs it intact, and whether it acts in a disease-relevant tissue.

MMP3 is annotated as secreted, so native MMP3 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 MMP3 as an autoantigen. Seroatlas presents hypothesis context only and does not manufacture a known-serology claim.

Canonical record: https://seroatlas.com/gene/MMP3. 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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