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PPDPF

Pancreatic progenitor cell differentiation and proliferation factor

Also known as: C20orf149, dJ697K14.9, exdpf, PPDPF_HUMAN

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

Protein identityUniProt · HPA

UniProt accession
Q9H3Y8
Gene
PPDPF
Ensembl
ENSG00000125534
Chromosome
20
Canonical length
114 aa
Protein class
Predicted intracellular proteins
Subcellular location
Nucleoplasm,Nucleoli,Microtubules

OverviewNCBI Gene

Predicted to be involved in cell differentiation. Predicted to act upstream of or within TORC1 signaling and liver development. Located in mitochondrion. [provided by Alliance of Genome Resources, Jul 2025]

Canonical amino-acid sequenceUniProt

114 residues, UniProt reviewed canonical sequence.

>Q9H3Y8|PPDPF
     1  MAAIPSSGSL VATHDYYRRR LGSTSSNSSC SSTECPGEAI PHPPGLPKAD PGHWWASFFF
    61  GKSTLPFMAT VLESAEHSEP PQASSSMTAC GLARDAPRKQ PGGQSSTASA GPPS

LocalizationUniProt · AlphaFold · HPA

Whether an antibody against PPDPF 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)
0.68
Highest tissue expression
647 nTPM

Expression across tissuesHPA

Tissue

  • esophagus: 647 nTPM
  • spinal cord: 524 nTPM
  • blood vessel: 490 nTPM
  • skin: 477 nTPM
  • skeletal muscle: 466 nTPM
  • salivary gland: 445 nTPM

Single-cell type

  • esophageal apical cells: 18,165 nCPM
  • esophageal suprabasal cells: 3,143 nCPM
  • enterocytes: 2,720 nCPM
  • colonocytes: 2,542 nCPM
  • late spermatids: 2,190 nCPM
  • breast lactating cells: 1,456 nCPM

Immune cell

  • eosinophil: 26 nTPM
  • naive B-cell: 5.9 nTPM
  • gdT-cell: 5.7 nTPM
  • non-classical monocyte: 5.7 nTPM
  • T-reg: 5.7 nTPM
  • total PBMC: 5.7 nTPM

Brain region

  • white matter: 394 nTPM
  • pons: 351 nTPM
  • medulla oblongata: 344 nTPM
  • midbrain: 340 nTPM
  • spinal cord: 307 nTPM
  • basal ganglia: 303 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)
1.94
gnomAD pLI
0
gnomAD missense Z
-0.37
DepMap mean gene effect
0.01
DepMap dependency class
selective

Cancer expressionTCGA

Across TCGA tumor cohorts, this protein is over-expressed in roughly 8% 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 PPDPF as an antibody target. Whether an autoantibody or antibody against PPDPF could matter depends on whether native PPDPF is physically reachable, whether the body needs it intact, and whether it acts in a disease-relevant tissue.

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

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