Seroatlas · Human Serome Atlas

PSMA4

Proteasome subunit alpha type-4

Also known as: HC9, HsT17706, PSA4_HUMAN

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

Protein identityUniProt · HPA

UniProt accession
P25789
Gene
PSMA4
Ensembl
ENSG00000041357
Chromosome
15
Canonical length
261 aa
Protein class
Enzymes, Plasma proteins, Predicted intracellular proteins
Subcellular location
Nucleoplasm,Vesicles,Cytosol,Connecting piece,Flagellar centriole,Mid piece

OverviewNCBI Gene

This gene encodes a core alpha subunit of the 20S proteosome, which is a highly ordered ring-shaped structure composed of four rings of 28 non-identical subunits. Proteasomes cleave peptides in an ATP- and ubiquitin-dependent manner. [provided by RefSeq, Aug 2016]

Canonical amino-acid sequenceUniProt

261 residues, UniProt reviewed canonical sequence.

>P25789|PSMA4
     1  MSRRYDSRTT IFSPEGRLYQ VEYAMEAIGH AGTCLGILAN DGVLLAAERR NIHKLLDEVF
    61  FSEKIYKLNE DMACSVAGIT SDANVLTNEL RLIAQRYLLQ YQEPIPCEQL VTALCDIKQA
   121  YTQFGGKRPF GVSLLYIGWD KHYGFQLYQS DPSGNYGGWK ATCIGNNSAA AVSMLKQDYK
   181  EGEMTLKSAL ALAIKVLNKT MDVSKLSAEK VEIATLTREN GKTVIRVLKQ KEVEQLIKKH
   241  EEEEAKAERE KKEKEQKEKD K

LocalizationUniProt · AlphaFold · HPA

Whether an antibody against PSMA4 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)
0.28
Highest tissue expression
172 nTPM

Expression across tissuesHPA

Tissue

  • skeletal muscle: 172 nTPM
  • thymus: 146 nTPM
  • liver: 144 nTPM
  • lymph node: 128 nTPM
  • tonsil: 120 nTPM
  • esophagus: 114 nTPM

Single-cell type

  • late primary spermatocytes: 722 nCPM
  • early spermatids: 693 nCPM
  • cytotrophoblasts: 556 nCPM
  • migrating cytotrophoblasts: 539 nCPM
  • extravillous trophoblasts: 536 nCPM
  • syncytiotrophoblasts: 496 nCPM

Immune cell

  • total PBMC: 406 nTPM
  • intermediate monocyte: 404 nTPM
  • non-classical monocyte: 397 nTPM
  • myeloid DC: 328 nTPM
  • classical monocyte: 252 nTPM
  • T-reg: 218 nTPM

Brain region

  • white matter: 44 nTPM
  • spinal cord: 43 nTPM
  • hypothalamus: 43 nTPM
  • medulla oblongata: 39 nTPM
  • pons: 39 nTPM
  • cerebellum: 36 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)
0.49
gnomAD pLI
0.6
gnomAD missense Z
2.44
DepMap mean gene effect
-1.56
DepMap dependency class
pan

Cancer expressionTCGA

Across TCGA tumor cohorts, this protein is over-expressed in roughly 6% 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

InteractionsUniProt · HPA

Protein binding partners of PSMA4 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 PSMA4 as an antibody target. Whether an autoantibody or antibody against PSMA4 could matter depends on whether native PSMA4 is physically reachable, whether the body needs it intact, and whether it acts in a disease-relevant tissue.

PSMA4 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 PSMA4 as an autoantigen. Seroatlas presents hypothesis context only and does not manufacture a known-serology claim.

Canonical record: https://seroatlas.com/gene/PSMA4. 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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