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PRSS55

Serine protease 55

Also known as: CT153, PRS55_HUMAN, T-SP1, UNQ9391

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

Protein identityUniProt · HPA

UniProt accession
Q6UWB4
Gene
PRSS55
Ensembl
ENSG00000184647
Chromosome
8
Canonical length
352 aa
Protein class
Enzymes, Predicted intracellular proteins
Subcellular location
Acrosome
Secretome location
Intracellular and membrane

OverviewNCBI Gene

This gene encodes a member of a group of membrane-anchored chymotrypsin (S1)-like serine proteases. The enocoded protein is primarily expressed in the Leydig and Sertoli cells of the testis and may be involved in male fertility. Alternate splicing results in multiple transcript variants. [provided by RefSeq, Sep 2010]

Canonical amino-acid sequenceUniProt

352 residues, UniProt reviewed canonical sequence.

>Q6UWB4|PRSS55
     1  MLLFSVLLLL SLVTGTQLGP RTPLPEAGVA ILGRARGAHR PQPPHPPSPV SECGDRSIFE
    61  GRTRYSRITG GMEAEVGEFP WQVSIQARSE PFCGGSILNK WWILTAAHCL YSEELFPEEL
   121  SVVLGTNDLT SPSMEIKEVA SIILHKDFKR ANMDNDIALL LLASPIKLDD LKVPICLPTQ
   181  PGPATWRECW VAGWGQTNAA DKNSVKTDLM KAPMVIMDWE ECSKMFPKLT KNMLCAGYKN
   241  ESYDACKGDS GGPLVCTPEP GEKWYQVGII SWGKSCGEKN TPGIYTSLVN YNLWIEKVTQ
   301  LEGRPFNAEK RRTSVKQKPM GSPVSGVPEP GSPRSWLLLC PLSHVLFRAI LY

LocalizationUniProt · AlphaFold · HPA

Whether an antibody against PRSS55 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
0
Mean surface accessibility (rSASA)
0.38
Highest tissue expression
26 nTPM

Expression across tissuesHPA

Tissue

  • testis: 26 nTPM
  • cerebellum: 0.4 nTPM
  • kidney: 0.4 nTPM
  • amygdala: 0.2 nTPM
  • basal ganglia: 0.2 nTPM
  • cerebral cortex: 0.2 nTPM

Single-cell type

  • early spermatids: 174 nCPM
  • late primary spermatocytes: 102 nCPM
  • late spermatids: 50 nCPM
  • proximal tubule cells: 10 nCPM
  • oligodendrocyte progenitor cells: 3.5 nCPM
  • choroid plexus epithelial cells: 3 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

  • cerebral cortex: 1 nTPM
  • hippocampal formation: 0.5 nTPM
  • thalamus: 0.4 nTPM
  • amygdala: 0.3 nTPM
  • medulla oblongata: 0.3 nTPM
  • midbrain: 0.3 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)
1.88
gnomAD pLI
0
gnomAD missense Z
-3.4
DepMap mean gene effect
0.01
DepMap dependency class
none

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

Antibody and autoantibody relevanceSeroatlas analysis

Seroatlas reads PRSS55 as an antibody target. Whether an autoantibody or antibody against PRSS55 could matter depends on whether native PRSS55 is physically reachable, whether the body needs it intact, and whether it acts in a disease-relevant tissue.

PRSS55 is annotated at the cell surface, where native PRSS55 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 PRSS55 as an autoantigen. Seroatlas presents hypothesis context only and does not manufacture a known-serology claim.

Canonical record: https://seroatlas.com/gene/PRSS55. 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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