Seroatlas · Human Serome Atlas

SATB2

DNA-binding protein SATB2

Also known as: FLJ21474, KIAA1034, SATB2_HUMAN

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

Protein identityUniProt · HPA

UniProt accession
Q9UPW6
Gene
SATB2
Ensembl
ENSG00000119042
Chromosome
2
Canonical length
733 aa
Protein class
Disease related genes, Human disease related genes, Predicted intracellular proteins, Transcription factors
Subcellular location
Nucleoplasm

OverviewNCBI Gene

This gene encodes a DNA binding protein that specifically binds nuclear matrix attachment regions. The encoded protein is involved in transcription regulation and chromatin remodeling. Defects in this gene are associated with isolated cleft palate and cognitive disability. Alternate splicing results in multiple transcript variants that encode the same protein. [provided by RefSeq, Feb 2010]

Canonical amino-acid sequenceUniProt

733 residues, UniProt reviewed canonical sequence.

>Q9UPW6|SATB2
     1  MERRSESPCL RDSPDRRSGS PDVKGPPPVK VARLEQNGSP MGARGRPNGA VAKAVGGLMI
    61  PVFCVVEQLD GSLEYDNREE HAEFVLVRKD VLFSQLVETA LLALGYSHSS AAQAQGIIKL
   121  GRWNPLPLSY VTDAPDATVA DMLQDVYHVV TLKIQLQSCS KLEDLPAEQW NHATVRNALK
   181  ELLKEMNQST LAKECPLSQS MISSIVNSTY YANVSATKCQ EFGRWYKKYK KIKVERVERE
   241  NLSDYCVLGQ RPMHLPNMNQ LASLGKTNEQ SPHSQIHHST PIRNQVPALQ PIMSPGLLSP
   301  QLSPQLVRQQ IAMAHLINQQ IAVSRLLAHQ HPQAINQQFL NHPPIPRAVK PEPTNSSVEV
   361  SPDIYQQVRD ELKRASVSQA VFARVAFNRT QGLLSEILRK EEDPRTASQS LLVNLRAMQN
   421  FLNLPEVERD RIYQDERERS MNPNVSMVSS ASSSPSSSRT PQAKTSTPTT DLPIKVDGAN
   481  INITAAIYDE IQQEMKRAKV SQALFAKVAA NKSQGWLCEL LRWKENPSPE NRTLWENLCT
   541  IRRFLNLPQH ERDVIYEEES RHHHSERMQH VVQLPPEPVQ VLHRQQSQPA KESSPPREEA
   601  PPPPPPTEDS CAKKPRSRTK ISLEALGILQ SFIHDVGLYP DQEAIHTLSA QLDLPKHTII
   661  KFFQNQRYHV KHHGKLKEHL GSAVDVAEYK DEELLTESEE NDSEEGSEEM YKVEAEEENA
   721  DKSKAAPAEI DQR

LocalizationUniProt · AlphaFold · HPA

Whether an antibody against SATB2 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)
0.47
Highest tissue expression
31 nTPM

Expression across tissuesHPA

Tissue

  • rectum: 31 nTPM
  • colon: 26 nTPM
  • cerebral cortex: 13 nTPM
  • small intestine: 5 nTPM
  • spinal cord: 4.8 nTPM
  • adrenal gland: 4.5 nTPM

Single-cell type

  • colonocytes: 501 nCPM
  • tuft cells: 404 nCPM
  • choroid plexus epithelial cells: 402 nCPM
  • enteric stem cells: 319 nCPM
  • goblet cells: 280 nCPM
  • enteric transient amplifying cells: 274 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

  • cerebral cortex: 98 nTPM
  • white matter: 75 nTPM
  • basal ganglia: 50 nTPM
  • choroid plexus: 31 nTPM
  • hippocampal formation: 29 nTPM
  • amygdala: 21 nTPM

DiseaseUniProt · ClinVar · IEDB · PubMed

Four sources answering four different questions about SATB2.

Disease | AllUniProt

Conditions SATB2 is implicated in, by any mechanism.

Disease | GeneticClinVar

204 pathogenic / likely-pathogenic of 917 ClinVar records.

Conditions with pathogenic or likely-pathogenic variants.

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)
0.09
gnomAD pLI
1
gnomAD missense Z
4.05
DepMap mean gene effect
0.04
DepMap dependency class
selective

Cancer expressionTCGA

Across TCGA tumor cohorts, this protein is over-expressed in roughly 4% 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 SATB2 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 SATB2 as an antibody target. Whether an autoantibody or antibody against SATB2 could matter depends on whether native SATB2 is physically reachable, whether the body needs it intact, and whether it acts in a disease-relevant tissue.

SATB2 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 SATB2 as an autoantigen. Seroatlas presents hypothesis context only and does not manufacture a known-serology claim.

Canonical record: https://seroatlas.com/gene/SATB2. 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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