Seroatlas · Human Serome Atlas

MPV17L

Mpv17-like protein

Also known as: FLJ39599, MLPH1, MLPH2, MP17L_HUMAN, MPV17L1

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

Protein identityUniProt · HPA

UniProt accession
Q2QL34
Gene
MPV17L
Ensembl
ENSG00000156968
Chromosome
16
Canonical length
196 aa
Protein class
Predicted intracellular proteins, Predicted membrane proteins
Subcellular location
Vesicles

OverviewNCBI Gene

Involved in negative regulation of hydrogen peroxide biosynthetic process; negative regulation of mitochondrial outer membrane permeabilization involved in apoptotic signaling pathway; and reactive oxygen species metabolic process. Located in peroxisome. [provided by Alliance of Genome Resources, Jul 2025]

Canonical amino-acid sequenceUniProt

196 residues, UniProt reviewed canonical sequence.

>Q2QL34|MPV17L
     1  MAGWWPALSR AARRHPWPTN VLLYGSLVSA GDALQQRLQG REANWRQTRR VATLVVTFHA
    61  NFNYVWLRLL ERALPGRAPH ALLAKLLCDQ VVGAPIAVSA FYVGMSILQG KDDIFLDLKQ
   121  KFWNTYLSGL MYWPFVQLTN FSLVPVQWRT AYAGVCGFLW ATFICFSQQS GDGTFKSAFT
   181  ILYTKGTSAT EGYPKK

LocalizationUniProt · AlphaFold · HPA

Whether an antibody against MPV17L 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
Other membrane
Secreted
No
Transmembrane segments
4
Mean surface accessibility (rSASA)
0.32
Highest tissue expression
12 nTPM

Expression across tissuesHPA

Tissue

  • pancreas: 12 nTPM
  • liver: 7.8 nTPM
  • skeletal muscle: 6.5 nTPM
  • breast: 6 nTPM
  • salivary gland: 5.6 nTPM
  • bone marrow: 4 nTPM

Single-cell type

  • late primary spermatocytes: 2.9 nCPM
  • thymic myoid cells: 2.7 nCPM
  • conjunctival goblet cells: 1.9 nCPM
  • innate lymphoid cells: 1.7 nCPM
  • breast lactating cells: 1.5 nCPM
  • endometrial secretory cells: 1.3 nCPM

Immune cell

  • neutrophil: 1.6 nTPM
  • basophil: 1.4 nTPM
  • classical monocyte: 1.2 nTPM
  • naive B-cell: 1.1 nTPM
  • NK-cell: 1 nTPM
  • intermediate monocyte: 0.9 nTPM

Brain region

  • cerebral cortex: 41 nTPM
  • cerebellum: 32 nTPM
  • midbrain: 30 nTPM
  • thalamus: 29 nTPM
  • amygdala: 28 nTPM
  • pons: 27 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)
1.77
gnomAD pLI
0
gnomAD missense Z
0.45
DepMap mean gene effect
-0.01
DepMap dependency class
selective

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

Cellular components

Protein domainsUniProt · Pfam · InterPro

KeywordsUniProt

Antibody and autoantibody relevanceSeroatlas analysis

Seroatlas reads MPV17L as an antibody target. Whether an autoantibody or antibody against MPV17L could matter depends on whether native MPV17L is physically reachable, whether the body needs it intact, and whether it acts in a disease-relevant tissue.

MPV17L 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 MPV17L as an autoantigen. Seroatlas presents hypothesis context only and does not manufacture a known-serology claim.

Canonical record: https://seroatlas.com/gene/MPV17L. 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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