Seroatlas · Human Serome Atlas

MPZL1

Myelin protein zero-like protein 1

Also known as: FLJ21047, MPZL1_HUMAN, PZR

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

Protein identityUniProt · HPA

UniProt accession
O95297
Gene
MPZL1
Ensembl
ENSG00000197965
Chromosome
1
Canonical length
269 aa
Protein class
Predicted intracellular proteins, Predicted membrane proteins
Subcellular location
Vesicles,Plasma membrane

OverviewNCBI Gene

Predicted to enable structural molecule activity. Predicted to be involved in cell surface receptor protein tyrosine kinase signaling pathway and cell-cell signaling. Located in cell surface and focal adhesion. [provided by Alliance of Genome Resources, Jul 2025]

Canonical amino-acid sequenceUniProt

269 residues, UniProt reviewed canonical sequence.

>O95297|MPZL1
     1  MAASAGAGAV IAAPDSRRWL WSVLAAALGL LTAGVSALEV YTPKEIFVAN GTQGKLTCKF
    61  KSTSTTGGLT SVSWSFQPEG ADTTVSFFHY SQGQVYLGNY PPFKDRISWA GDLDKKDASI
   121  NIENMQFIHN GTYICDVKNP PDIVVQPGHI RLYVVEKENL PVFPVWVVVG IVTAVVLGLT
   181  LLISMILAVL YRRKNSKRDY TGCSTSESLS PVKQAPRKSP SDTEGLVKSL PSGSHQGPVI
   241  YAQLDHSGGH HSDKINKSES VVYADIRKN

LocalizationUniProt · AlphaFold · HPA

Whether an antibody against MPZL1 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)
0.49
Highest tissue expression
85 nTPM

Expression across tissuesHPA

Tissue

  • breast: 85 nTPM
  • urinary bladder: 70 nTPM
  • adipose tissue: 69 nTPM
  • salivary gland: 69 nTPM
  • placenta: 65 nTPM
  • gallbladder: 64 nTPM

Single-cell type

  • breast lactating cells: 273 nCPM
  • sertoli cells: 239 nCPM
  • oligodendrocyte progenitor cells: 221 nCPM
  • extravillous trophoblasts: 220 nCPM
  • cytotrophoblasts: 212 nCPM
  • somatotrophs: 210 nCPM

Immune cell

  • neutrophil: 185 nTPM
  • plasmacytoid DC: 44 nTPM
  • myeloid DC: 39 nTPM
  • non-classical monocyte: 35 nTPM
  • classical monocyte: 29 nTPM
  • intermediate monocyte: 25 nTPM

Brain region

  • choroid plexus: 68 nTPM
  • pons: 48 nTPM
  • midbrain: 47 nTPM
  • thalamus: 45 nTPM
  • hypothalamus: 42 nTPM
  • spinal cord: 39 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)
0.75
gnomAD pLI
0.16
gnomAD missense Z
1.06
DepMap mean gene effect
-0.13
DepMap dependency class
selective

Cancer expressionTCGA

Across TCGA tumor cohorts, this protein is over-expressed in roughly 10% 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 MPZL1 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 MPZL1 as an antibody target. Whether an autoantibody or antibody against MPZL1 could matter depends on whether native MPZL1 is physically reachable, whether the body needs it intact, and whether it acts in a disease-relevant tissue.

MPZL1 is annotated at the cell surface, where native MPZL1 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 MPZL1 as an autoantigen. Seroatlas presents hypothesis context only and does not manufacture a known-serology claim.

Canonical record: https://seroatlas.com/gene/MPZL1. 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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