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PSG5

Pregnancy-specific beta-1-glycoprotein 5

Also known as: FL-NCA-3, PSG, PSG5_HUMAN

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

Protein identityUniProt · HPA

UniProt accession
Q15238
Gene
PSG5
Ensembl
ENSG00000204941
Chromosome
19
Canonical length
335 aa
Protein class
Predicted secreted proteins
Secretome location
Secreted in female reproductive system

OverviewNCBI Gene

The human pregnancy-specific glycoproteins (PSGs) are a group of molecules that are mainly produced by the placental syncytiotrophoblasts during pregnancy. PSGs comprise a subgroup of the carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) family, which belongs to the immunoglobulin superfamily. For additional general information about the PSG gene family, see PSG1 (MIM 176390).[supplied by OMIM, Oct 2009]

Canonical amino-acid sequenceUniProt

335 residues, UniProt reviewed canonical sequence.

>Q15238|PSG5
     1  MGPLSAPPCT QHITWKGLLL TASLLNFWNL PITAQVTIEA LPPKVSEGKD VLLLVHNLPQ
    61  NLAGYIWYKG QLMDLYHYIT SYVVDGQINI YGPAYTGRET VYSNASLLIQ NVTREDAGSY
   121  TLHIIKRGDR TRGVTGYFTF NLYLKLPKPY ITINNSKPRE NKDVLAFTCE PKSENYTYIW
   181  WLNGQSLPVS PRVKRPIENR ILILPSVTRN ETGPYECEIR DRDGGMRSDP VTLNVLYGPD
   241  LPSIYPSFTY YRSGENLYLS CFAESNPPAE YFWTINGKFQ QSGQKLSIPQ ITTKHRGLYT
   301  CSVRNSATGK ESSKSMTVEV SAPSGIGRLP LLNPI

LocalizationUniProt · AlphaFold · HPA

Whether an antibody against PSG5 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
Secreted
Secreted
Yes
Transmembrane segments
0
Mean surface accessibility (rSASA)
0.36
Highest tissue expression
106 nTPM

Expression across tissuesHPA

Tissue

  • placenta: 106 nTPM
  • smooth muscle: 0.8 nTPM
  • kidney: 0.5 nTPM
  • skin: 0.5 nTPM
  • parathyroid gland: 0.3 nTPM
  • retina: 0.3 nTPM

Single-cell type

  • syncytiotrophoblasts: 1,020 nCPM
  • migrating cytotrophoblasts: 63 nCPM
  • extravillous trophoblasts: 35 nCPM
  • retinal bipolar cells: 9.6 nCPM
  • epicardial cells: 6.8 nCPM
  • adipocytes: 3.1 nCPM

Immune cell

  • basophil: 0.3 nTPM
  • neutrophil: 0.2 nTPM
  • naive B-cell: 0.1 nTPM
  • classical monocyte: 0 nTPM
  • eosinophil: 0 nTPM
  • gdT-cell: 0 nTPM

Brain region

  • cerebellum: 5.9 nTPM
  • white matter: 3.4 nTPM
  • cerebral cortex: 3.3 nTPM
  • basal ganglia: 3.1 nTPM
  • amygdala: 2.8 nTPM
  • hippocampal formation: 2.8 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)
1.9
gnomAD pLI
0
gnomAD missense Z
-3.76
DepMap mean gene effect
-0.11
DepMap dependency class
selective

Cancer expressionTCGA

Across TCGA tumor cohorts, this protein is over-expressed in roughly 3% 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 PSG5 as an antibody target. Whether an autoantibody or antibody against PSG5 could matter depends on whether native PSG5 is physically reachable, whether the body needs it intact, and whether it acts in a disease-relevant tissue.

PSG5 is annotated as secreted, so native PSG5 circulates and is directly accessible to antibodies. Secreted and cell-surface proteins are the autoantibody targets most likely to act like drugs, blocking or depleting the native protein.

Annotation status

The present source text does not explicitly label PSG5 as an autoantigen. Seroatlas presents hypothesis context only and does not manufacture a known-serology claim.

Canonical record: https://seroatlas.com/gene/PSG5. 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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