Seroatlas · Human Serome Atlas

S100A7A

Protein S100-A7A

Also known as: S100A15, S100A7f, S100A7L1, S1A7A_HUMAN

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

Protein identityUniProt · HPA

UniProt accession
Q86SG5
Gene
S100A7A
Ensembl
ENSG00000184330
Chromosome
1
Canonical length
101 aa
Protein class
Predicted intracellular proteins
Subcellular location
Cytosol

OverviewNCBI Gene

Enables identical protein binding activity. Predicted to be involved in endothelial cell migration. Predicted to act upstream of or within inflammatory response. Located in cytosol. [provided by Alliance of Genome Resources, Jul 2025]

Canonical amino-acid sequenceUniProt

101 residues, UniProt reviewed canonical sequence.

>Q86SG5|S100A7A
     1  MSNTQAERSI IGMIDMFHKY TGRDGKIEKP SLLTMMKENF PNFLSACDKK GIHYLATVFE
    61  KKDKNEDKKI DFSEFLSLLG DIAADYHKQS HGAAPCSGGS Q

LocalizationUniProt · AlphaFold · HPA

Whether an antibody against S100A7A 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)
0.35
Highest tissue expression
6.5 nTPM

Expression across tissuesHPA

Tissue

  • cervix: 6.5 nTPM
  • esophagus: 5.7 nTPM
  • tonsil: 5.5 nTPM
  • vagina: 2.6 nTPM
  • skin: 2.3 nTPM
  • salivary gland: 0.1 nTPM

Single-cell type

  • esophageal apical cells: 28 nCPM
  • esophageal suprabasal cells: 22 nCPM
  • late spermatids: 4.2 nCPM
  • suprabasal keratinocytes: 3.8 nCPM
  • early spermatids: 2.9 nCPM
  • esophageal basal cells: 2.7 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

  • cerebellum: 0.2 nTPM
  • cerebral cortex: 0.2 nTPM
  • pons: 0.2 nTPM
  • medulla oblongata: 0.1 nTPM
  • white matter: 0.1 nTPM
  • amygdala: 0 nTPM

DiseaseUniProt · ClinVar · IEDB · PubMed

Four sources answering four different questions about S100A7A.

Disease | ImmuneIEDB

Conditions an epitope on S100A7A was assayed in.

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)
1.94
gnomAD pLI
0
gnomAD missense Z
-1.27

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

Molecular functions

Cellular components

Protein domainsUniProt · Pfam · InterPro

KeywordsUniProt

Antibody and autoantibody relevanceSeroatlas analysis

Seroatlas reads S100A7A as an antibody target. Whether an autoantibody or antibody against S100A7A could matter depends on whether native S100A7A is physically reachable, whether the body needs it intact, and whether it acts in a disease-relevant tissue.

S100A7A 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 S100A7A as an autoantigen. Seroatlas presents hypothesis context only and does not manufacture a known-serology claim.

Canonical record: https://seroatlas.com/gene/S100A7A. 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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