Seroatlas · Human Serome Atlas

RPS27A

Ubiquitin-ribosomal protein eS31 fusion protein

Also known as: RS27A_HUMAN, S27A, Uba80, UBCEP80

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

Protein identityUniProt · HPA

UniProt accession
P62979
Gene
RPS27A
Ensembl
ENSG00000143947
Chromosome
2
Canonical length
156 aa
Protein class
Predicted intracellular proteins, Ribosomal proteins
Subcellular location
Nucleoli,Endoplasmic reticulum,Cytosol,Acrosome,Equatorial segment

OverviewNCBI Gene

Ubiquitin, a highly conserved protein that has a major role in targeting cellular proteins for degradation by the 26S proteosome, is synthesized as a precursor protein consisting of either polyubiquitin chains or a single ubiquitin fused to an unrelated protein. This gene encodes a fusion protein consisting of ubiquitin at the N terminus and ribosomal protein S27a at the C terminus. When expressed in yeast, the protein is post-translationally processed, generating free ubiquitin monomer and ribosomal protein S27a. Ribosomal protein S27a is a component of the 40S subunit of the ribosome and belongs to the S27AE family of ribosomal proteins. It contains C4-type zinc finger domains and is located in the cytoplasm. Pseudogenes derived from this gene are present in the genome. As with ribosomal protein S27a, ribosomal protein L40 is also synthesized as a fusion protein with ubiquitin; similarly, ribosomal protein S30 is synthesized as a fusion protein with the ubiquitin-like protein fubi. Multiple alternatively spliced transcript variants that encode the same proteins have been identified.[provided by RefSeq, Sep 2008]

Canonical amino-acid sequenceUniProt

156 residues, UniProt reviewed canonical sequence.

>P62979|RPS27A
     1  MQIFVKTLTG KTITLEVEPS DTIENVKAKI QDKEGIPPDQ QRLIFAGKQL EDGRTLSDYN
    61  IQKESTLHLV LRLRGGAKKR KKKSYTTPKK NKHKRKKVKL AVLKYYKVDE NGKISRLRRE
   121  CPSDECGAGV FMASHFDRHY CGKCCLTYCF NKPEDK

LocalizationUniProt · AlphaFold · HPA

Whether an antibody against RPS27A 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)
0.44
Highest tissue expression
3,283 nTPM

Expression across tissuesHPA

Tissue

  • ovary: 3,283 nTPM
  • bone marrow: 2,417 nTPM
  • breast: 2,347 nTPM
  • pancreas: 2,265 nTPM
  • cervix: 1,999 nTPM
  • skin: 1,886 nTPM

Single-cell type

  • esophageal suprabasal cells: 10,806 nCPM
  • esophageal basal cells: 10,095 nCPM
  • breast secretory cells: 8,456 nCPM
  • extravillous trophoblasts: 8,042 nCPM
  • ovarian stromal cells: 7,990 nCPM
  • migrating cytotrophoblasts: 7,762 nCPM

Immune cell

  • total PBMC: 8,236 nTPM
  • naive CD4 T-cell: 5,693 nTPM
  • naive CD8 T-cell: 4,760 nTPM
  • memory B-cell: 4,746 nTPM
  • memory CD4 T-cell: 4,519 nTPM
  • MAIT T-cell: 4,278 nTPM

Brain region

  • spinal cord: 434 nTPM
  • thalamus: 389 nTPM
  • white matter: 380 nTPM
  • basal ganglia: 376 nTPM
  • medulla oblongata: 348 nTPM
  • hypothalamus: 345 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)
0.37
gnomAD pLI
0.92
gnomAD missense Z
0.86
DepMap mean gene effect
-1.91
DepMap dependency class
pan

Cancer expressionTCGA

Across TCGA tumor cohorts, this protein is over-expressed in roughly 5% 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 RPS27A 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 RPS27A as an antibody target. Whether an autoantibody or antibody against RPS27A could matter depends on whether native RPS27A is physically reachable, whether the body needs it intact, and whether it acts in a disease-relevant tissue.

RPS27A 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 RPS27A as an autoantigen. Seroatlas presents hypothesis context only and does not manufacture a known-serology claim.

Canonical record: https://seroatlas.com/gene/RPS27A. 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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