Seroatlas · Human Serome Atlas

NNAT

Neuronatin

Also known as: NNAT_HUMAN, Peg5

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

Protein identityUniProt · HPA

UniProt accession
Q16517
Gene
NNAT
Ensembl
ENSG00000053438
Chromosome
20
Canonical length
81 aa
Protein class
Predicted intracellular proteins, Predicted membrane proteins, Transporters

OverviewNCBI Gene

The protein encoded by this gene is a proteolipid that may be involved in the regulation of ion channels during brain development. The encoded protein may also play a role in forming and maintaining the structure of the nervous system. This gene is found within an intron of another gene, bladder cancer associated protein, but on the opposite strand. This gene is imprinted and is expressed only from the paternal allele. [provided by RefSeq, Apr 2016]

Canonical amino-acid sequenceUniProt

81 residues, UniProt reviewed canonical sequence.

>Q16517|NNAT
     1  MAAVAAASAE LLIIGWYIFR VLLQVFLECC IYWVGFAFRN PPGTQPIARS EVFRYSLQKL
    61  AYTVSRTGRQ VLGERRQRAP N

LocalizationUniProt · AlphaFold · HPA

Whether an antibody against NNAT 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
Intracellular
Secreted
No
Transmembrane segments
0
Mean surface accessibility (rSASA)
0.51
Highest tissue expression
1,529 nTPM

Expression across tissuesHPA

Tissue

  • pituitary gland: 1,529 nTPM
  • basal ganglia: 914 nTPM
  • amygdala: 283 nTPM
  • hippocampal formation: 252 nTPM
  • hypothalamus: 199 nTPM
  • cerebral cortex: 182 nTPM

Single-cell type

  • corticotrophs: 863 nCPM
  • somatotrophs: 537 nCPM
  • ependymal cells: 321 nCPM
  • epididymal efferent duct ciliated cells: 294 nCPM
  • lactotrophs: 220 nCPM
  • medullary thymic epithelial cells: 175 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

  • basal ganglia: 301 nTPM
  • amygdala: 233 nTPM
  • hippocampal formation: 229 nTPM
  • hypothalamus: 199 nTPM
  • cerebral cortex: 140 nTPM
  • choroid plexus: 125 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)
0.94
gnomAD pLI
0.4
gnomAD missense Z
0.75
DepMap mean gene effect
-0.04
DepMap dependency class
none

Cancer expressionTCGA

Across TCGA tumor cohorts, this protein is over-expressed in roughly 2% 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

  • Neuronatin

KeywordsUniProt

Antibody and autoantibody relevanceSeroatlas analysis

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

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

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