Seroatlas · Human Serome Atlas

NSMCE3

Non-structural maintenance of chromosomes element 3 homolog

Also known as: HCA4, MAGEG1, MAGEL3, NDNL2, NSE3, NSE3_HUMAN

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

Protein identityUniProt · HPA

UniProt accession
Q96MG7
Gene
NSMCE3
Ensembl
ENSG00000185115
Chromosome
15
Canonical length
304 aa
Protein class
Disease related genes, Predicted intracellular proteins

OverviewNCBI Gene

The protein encoded by this gene is part of the SMC5-6 chromatin reorganizing complex and is a member of the MAGE superfamily. This is an intronless gene. [provided by RefSeq, May 2011]

Canonical amino-acid sequenceUniProt

304 residues, UniProt reviewed canonical sequence.

>Q96MG7|NSMCE3
     1  MLQKPRNRGR SGGQAERDRD WSHSGNPGAS RAGEDARVLR DGFAEEAPST SRGPGGSQGS
    61  QGPSPQGARR AQAAPAVGPR SQKQLELKVS ELVQFLLIKD QKKIPIKRAD ILKHVIGDYK
   121  DIFPDLFKRA AERLQYVFGY KLVELEPKSN TYILINTLEP VEEDAEMRGD QGTPTTGLLM
   181  IVLGLIFMKG NTIKETEAWD FLRRLGVYPT KKHLIFGDPK KLITEDFVRQ RYLEYRRIPH
   241  TDPVDYEFQW GPRTNLETSK MKVLKFVAKV HNQDPKDWPA QYCEALADEE NRARPQPSGP
   301  APSS

LocalizationUniProt · AlphaFold · HPA

Whether an antibody against NSMCE3 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)
0.44
Highest tissue expression
6.5 nTPM

Expression across tissuesHPA

Tissue

  • hypothalamus: 6.5 nTPM
  • testis: 5.9 nTPM
  • pituitary gland: 5.6 nTPM
  • hippocampal formation: 5.1 nTPM
  • cerebral cortex: 5 nTPM
  • spleen: 5 nTPM

Single-cell type

  • oligodendrocyte progenitor cells: 0.1 nCPM
  • oligodendrocytes: 0.1 nCPM
  • vascular smooth muscle cells: 0.1 nCPM
  • adipocytes: 0 nCPM
  • adrenal cortex cells: 0 nCPM
  • adrenal medulla cells: 0 nCPM

Immune cell

  • basophil: 0.1 nTPM
  • memory B-cell: 0.1 nTPM
  • naive B-cell: 0.1 nTPM
  • neutrophil: 0.1 nTPM
  • classical monocyte: 0 nTPM
  • eosinophil: 0 nTPM

Brain region

  • cerebral cortex: 3.2 nTPM
  • hippocampal formation: 3.2 nTPM
  • basal ganglia: 2.9 nTPM
  • cerebellum: 2.8 nTPM
  • amygdala: 2.7 nTPM
  • thalamus: 2.6 nTPM

DiseaseUniProt · ClinVar · IEDB · PubMed

Four sources answering four different questions about NSMCE3.

Disease | AllUniProt

Conditions NSMCE3 is implicated in, by any mechanism.

Disease | GeneticClinVar

2 pathogenic / likely-pathogenic of 189 ClinVar records.

Conditions with pathogenic or likely-pathogenic variants.

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)
1.04
gnomAD pLI
0.06
DepMap mean gene effect
-0.81
DepMap dependency class
common

Cancer expressionTCGA

Across TCGA tumor cohorts, this protein is over-expressed in roughly 4% 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 NSMCE3 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 NSMCE3 as an antibody target. Whether an autoantibody or antibody against NSMCE3 could matter depends on whether native NSMCE3 is physically reachable, whether the body needs it intact, and whether it acts in a disease-relevant tissue.

NSMCE3 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 NSMCE3 as an autoantigen. Seroatlas presents hypothesis context only and does not manufacture a known-serology claim.

Canonical record: https://seroatlas.com/gene/NSMCE3. 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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