Seroatlas · Human Serome Atlas

SGK2

Serine/threonine-protein kinase Sgk2

Also known as: SGK2_HUMAN

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

Protein identityUniProt · HPA

UniProt accession
Q9HBY8
Gene
SGK2
Ensembl
ENSG00000101049
Chromosome
20
Canonical length
367 aa
Protein class
Enzymes, Predicted intracellular proteins
Subcellular location
Nucleoplasm

OverviewNCBI Gene

This gene encodes a serine/threonine protein kinase. Although this gene product is similar to serum- and glucocorticoid-induced protein kinase (SGK), this gene is not induced by serum or glucocorticoids. This gene is induced in response to signals that activate phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase, which is also true for SGK. Alternative splicing results in multiple transcript variants. [provided by RefSeq, Nov 2010]

Canonical amino-acid sequenceUniProt

367 residues, UniProt reviewed canonical sequence.

>Q9HBY8|SGK2
     1  MNSSPAGTPS PQPSRANGNI NLGPSANPNA QPTDFDFLKV IGKGNYGKVL LAKRKSDGAF
    61  YAVKVLQKKS ILKKKEQSHI MAERSVLLKN VRHPFLVGLR YSFQTPEKLY FVLDYVNGGE
   121  LFFHLQRERR FLEPRARFYA AEVASAIGYL HSLNIIYRDL KPENILLDCQ GHVVLTDFGL
   181  CKEGVEPEDT TSTFCGTPEY LAPEVLRKEP YDRAVDWWCL GAVLYEMLHG LPPFYSQDVS
   241  QMYENILHQP LQIPGGRTVA ACDLLQSLLH KDQRQRLGSK ADFLEIKNHV FFSPINWDDL
   301  YHKRLTPPFN PNVTGPADLK HFDPEFTQEA VSKSIGCTPD TVASSSGASS AFLGFSYAPE
   361  DDDILDC

LocalizationUniProt · AlphaFold · HPA

Whether an antibody against SGK2 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
77 nTPM

Expression across tissuesHPA

Tissue

  • kidney: 77 nTPM
  • liver: 64 nTPM
  • rectum: 38 nTPM
  • colon: 35 nTPM
  • epididymis: 32 nTPM
  • duodenum: 30 nTPM

Single-cell type

  • colonocytes: 100 nCPM
  • distal convoluted tubule cells: 85 nCPM
  • renal collecting duct intercalated cells: 78 nCPM
  • renal connecting tubule cells: 72 nCPM
  • loop of henle epithelial cells: 66 nCPM
  • hepatocytes: 47 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

  • white matter: 55 nTPM
  • medulla oblongata: 44 nTPM
  • basal ganglia: 35 nTPM
  • midbrain: 33 nTPM
  • thalamus: 32 nTPM
  • cerebellum: 32 nTPM

DiseaseUniProt · ClinVar · IEDB · PubMed

Four sources answering four different questions about SGK2.

Disease | GeneticClinVar

1 pathogenic / likely-pathogenic of 82 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)
1.24
gnomAD pLI
0
gnomAD missense Z
0.75
DepMap mean gene effect
-0.06
DepMap dependency class
selective

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 SGK2 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 SGK2 as an antibody target. Whether an autoantibody or antibody against SGK2 could matter depends on whether native SGK2 is physically reachable, whether the body needs it intact, and whether it acts in a disease-relevant tissue.

SGK2 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 SGK2 as an autoantigen. Seroatlas presents hypothesis context only and does not manufacture a known-serology claim.

Canonical record: https://seroatlas.com/gene/SGK2. 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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