Seroatlas · Human Serome Atlas

SGSH

N-sulphoglucosamine sulphohydrolase

Also known as: HSS, MPS3A, SFMD, SPHM_HUMAN

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

Protein identityUniProt · HPA

UniProt accession
P51688
Gene
SGSH
Ensembl
ENSG00000181523
Chromosome
17
Canonical length
502 aa
Protein class
Disease related genes, Enzymes, Human disease related genes, Metabolic proteins, Potential drug targets, Predicted intracellular proteins
Secretome location
Intracellular and membrane

OverviewNCBI Gene

This gene encodes the enzyme sulfamidase; one of several enzymes involved in the lysosomal degradation of heparan sulfate. Mutations in this gene are associated with the lysosomal storage disease mucopolysaccaridosis IIIA, also known as Sanfilippo syndrome A, which results from impaired degradation of heparan sulfate. Transcripts of varying sizes have been reported but their biological validity has not been determined. [provided by RefSeq, Jun 2017]

Canonical amino-acid sequenceUniProt

502 residues, UniProt reviewed canonical sequence.

>P51688|SGSH
     1  MSCPVPACCA LLLVLGLCRA RPRNALLLLA DDGGFESGAY NNSAIATPHL DALARRSLLF
    61  RNAFTSVSSC SPSRASLLTG LPQHQNGMYG LHQDVHHFNS FDKVRSLPLL LSQAGVRTGI
   121  IGKKHVGPET VYPFDFAYTE ENGSVLQVGR NITRIKLLVR KFLQTQDDRP FFLYVAFHDP
   181  HRCGHSQPQY GTFCEKFGNG ESGMGRIPDW TPQAYDPLDV LVPYFVPNTP AARADLAAQY
   241  TTVGRMDQGV GLVLQELRDA GVLNDTLVIF TSDNGIPFPS GRTNLYWPGT AEPLLVSSPE
   301  HPKRWGQVSE AYVSLLDLTP TILDWFSIPY PSYAIFGSKT IHLTGRSLLP ALEAEPLWAT
   361  VFGSQSHHEV TMSYPMRSVQ HRHFRLVHNL NFKMPFPIDQ DFYVSPTFQD LLNRTTAGQP
   421  TGWYKDLRHY YYRARWELYD RSRDPHETQN LATDPRFAQL LEMLRDQLAK WQWETHDPWV
   481  CAPDGVLEEK LSPQCQPLHN EL

LocalizationUniProt · AlphaFold · HPA

Whether an antibody against SGSH 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)
0.22
Highest tissue expression
45 nTPM

Expression across tissuesHPA

Tissue

  • adrenal gland: 45 nTPM
  • spleen: 29 nTPM
  • salivary gland: 21 nTPM
  • thyroid gland: 20 nTPM
  • pancreas: 19 nTPM
  • prostate: 19 nTPM

Single-cell type

  • adrenal cortex cells: 40 nCPM
  • syncytiotrophoblasts: 34 nCPM
  • tuft cells: 23 nCPM
  • cytotrophoblasts: 22 nCPM
  • adrenal medulla cells: 21 nCPM
  • kupffer cells: 21 nCPM

Immune cell

  • classical monocyte: 21 nTPM
  • myeloid DC: 20 nTPM
  • MAIT T-cell: 16 nTPM
  • T-reg: 14 nTPM
  • total PBMC: 13 nTPM
  • gdT-cell: 12 nTPM

Brain region

  • choroid plexus: 22 nTPM
  • midbrain: 21 nTPM
  • hypothalamus: 15 nTPM
  • medulla oblongata: 13 nTPM
  • pons: 13 nTPM
  • cerebral cortex: 9.6 nTPM

DiseaseUniProt · ClinVar · IEDB · PubMed

Four sources answering four different questions about SGSH.

Disease | AllUniProt

Conditions SGSH is implicated in, by any mechanism.

Disease | GeneticClinVar

209 pathogenic / likely-pathogenic of 1,156 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)
0.8
gnomAD pLI
0
gnomAD missense Z
-0.05
DepMap mean gene effect
0.07
DepMap dependency class
none

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

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

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