Seroatlas · Human Serome Atlas

PTPN2

Tyrosine-protein phosphatase non-receptor type 2

Also known as: PTN2_HUMAN, PTPT, TC-PTP, TCELLPTP, TCPTP

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

Protein identityUniProt · HPA

UniProt accession
P17706
Gene
PTPN2
Ensembl
ENSG00000175354
Chromosome
18
Canonical length
415 aa
Protein class
Enzymes, Human disease related genes, Predicted intracellular proteins, Predicted membrane proteins, Transporters
Subcellular location
Nucleoplasm,Cytosol

OverviewNCBI Gene

The protein encoded by this gene is a member of the protein tyrosine phosphatase (PTP) family. Members of the PTP family share a highly conserved catalytic motif, which is essential for the catalytic activity. PTPs are known to be signaling molecules that regulate a variety of cellular processes including cell growth, differentiation, mitotic cycle, and oncogenic transformation. Epidermal growth factor receptor and the adaptor protein Shc were reported to be substrates of this PTP, which suggested the roles in growth factor mediated cell signaling. Multiple alternatively spliced transcript variants encoding different isoforms have been found. Two highly related but distinctly processed pseudogenes that localize to chromosomes 1 and 13, respectively, have been reported. [provided by RefSeq, May 2011]

Canonical amino-acid sequenceUniProt

415 residues, UniProt reviewed canonical sequence.

>P17706|PTPN2
     1  MPTTIEREFE ELDTQRRWQP LYLEIRNESH DYPHRVAKFP ENRNRNRYRD VSPYDHSRVK
    61  LQNAENDYIN ASLVDIEEAQ RSYILTQGPL PNTCCHFWLM VWQQKTKAVV MLNRIVEKES
   121  VKCAQYWPTD DQEMLFKETG FSVKLLSEDV KSYYTVHLLQ LENINSGETR TISHFHYTTW
   181  PDFGVPESPA SFLNFLFKVR ESGSLNPDHG PAVIHCSAGI GRSGTFSLVD TCLVLMEKGD
   241  DINIKQVLLN MRKYRMGLIQ TPDQLRFSYM AIIEGAKCIK GDSSIQKRWK ELSKEDLSPA
   301  FDHSPNKIMT EKYNGNRIGL EEEKLTGDRC TGLSSKMQDT MEENSESALR KRIREDRKAT
   361  TAQKVQQMKQ RLNENERKRK RWLYWQPILT KMGFMSVILV GAFVGWTLFF QQNAL

LocalizationUniProt · AlphaFold · HPA

Whether an antibody against PTPN2 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)
0.33
Highest tissue expression
93 nTPM

Expression across tissuesHPA

Tissue

  • thymus: 93 nTPM
  • bone marrow: 54 nTPM
  • lymph node: 41 nTPM
  • tonsil: 41 nTPM
  • urinary bladder: 35 nTPM
  • choroid plexus: 32 nTPM

Single-cell type

  • plasma cells: 302 nCPM
  • monocytes: 283 nCPM
  • urothelial cells: 275 nCPM
  • pdcs: 255 nCPM
  • endometrial glandular cells: 231 nCPM
  • respiratory ionocytes: 216 nCPM

Immune cell

  • NK-cell: 64 nTPM
  • myeloid DC: 63 nTPM
  • T-reg: 58 nTPM
  • memory B-cell: 55 nTPM
  • plasmacytoid DC: 53 nTPM
  • classical monocyte: 53 nTPM

Brain region

  • cerebellum: 41 nTPM
  • choroid plexus: 30 nTPM
  • white matter: 26 nTPM
  • medulla oblongata: 24 nTPM
  • cerebral cortex: 22 nTPM
  • pons: 22 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)
0.18
gnomAD pLI
1
gnomAD missense Z
1.38
DepMap mean gene effect
-0.02
DepMap dependency class
selective

Cancer expressionTCGA

Across TCGA tumor cohorts, this protein is over-expressed in roughly 7% 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 PTPN2 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 PTPN2 as an antibody target. Whether an autoantibody or antibody against PTPN2 could matter depends on whether native PTPN2 is physically reachable, whether the body needs it intact, and whether it acts in a disease-relevant tissue.

PTPN2 is annotated at the cell surface, where native PTPN2 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 PTPN2 as an autoantigen. Seroatlas presents hypothesis context only and does not manufacture a known-serology claim.

Canonical record: https://seroatlas.com/gene/PTPN2. 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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