Seroatlas · Human Serome Atlas

POLE4

DNA polymerase epsilon subunit 4

Also known as: DPOE4_HUMAN, p12

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

Protein identityUniProt · HPA

UniProt accession
Q9NR33
Gene
POLE4
Ensembl
ENSG00000115350
Chromosome
2
Canonical length
117 aa
Protein class
FDA approved drug targets, Metabolic proteins, Predicted intracellular proteins
Subcellular location
Nucleoplasm,Cytosol

OverviewNCBI Gene

POLE4 is a histone-fold protein that interacts with other histone-fold proteins to bind DNA in a sequence-independent manner. These histone-fold protein dimers combine within larger enzymatic complexes for DNA transcription, replication, and packaging.[supplied by OMIM, Apr 2004]

Canonical amino-acid sequenceUniProt

117 residues, UniProt reviewed canonical sequence.

>Q9NR33|POLE4
     1  MAAAAAAGSG TPREEEGPAG EAAASQPQAP TSVPGARLSR LPLARVKALV KADPDVTLAG
    61  QEAIFILARA AELFVETIAK DAYCCAQQGK RKTLQRRDLD NAIEAVDEFA FLEGTLD

LocalizationUniProt · AlphaFold · HPA

Whether an antibody against POLE4 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)
0.52
Highest tissue expression
38 nTPM

Expression across tissuesHPA

Tissue

  • skeletal muscle: 38 nTPM
  • amygdala: 36 nTPM
  • cerebral cortex: 31 nTPM
  • blood vessel: 30 nTPM
  • basal ganglia: 25 nTPM
  • adipose tissue: 25 nTPM

Single-cell type

  • oocytes: 368 nCPM
  • parietal cells: 324 nCPM
  • cytotrophoblasts: 191 nCPM
  • extravillous trophoblasts: 184 nCPM
  • migrating cytotrophoblasts: 173 nCPM
  • esophageal suprabasal cells: 173 nCPM

Immune cell

  • classical monocyte: 53 nTPM
  • memory B-cell: 35 nTPM
  • plasmacytoid DC: 34 nTPM
  • naive B-cell: 33 nTPM
  • intermediate monocyte: 33 nTPM
  • total PBMC: 32 nTPM

Brain region

  • white matter: 12 nTPM
  • cerebral cortex: 9.7 nTPM
  • basal ganglia: 9.6 nTPM
  • pons: 9.3 nTPM
  • thalamus: 8.8 nTPM
  • amygdala: 8.7 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)
1.68
gnomAD pLI
0
gnomAD missense Z
-0.33
DepMap mean gene effect
-0.07
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

Molecular functions

Cellular components

Protein domainsUniProt · Pfam · InterPro

KeywordsUniProt

InteractionsUniProt · HPA

Protein binding partners of POLE4 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 POLE4 as an antibody target. Whether an autoantibody or antibody against POLE4 could matter depends on whether native POLE4 is physically reachable, whether the body needs it intact, and whether it acts in a disease-relevant tissue.

POLE4 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 POLE4 as an autoantigen. Seroatlas presents hypothesis context only and does not manufacture a known-serology claim.

Canonical record: https://seroatlas.com/gene/POLE4. 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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