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SHOX

Short stature homeobox protein

Also known as: GCFX, PHOG, SHOX_HUMAN, SHOXY, SS

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

Protein identityUniProt · HPA

UniProt accession
O15266
Gene
SHOX
Ensembl
ENSG00000185960
Chromosome
X
Canonical length
292 aa
Protein class
Disease related genes, Human disease related genes, Predicted intracellular proteins, Transcription factors
Subcellular location
Nucleoplasm,Vesicles
Quaternary structure
Homodimer

OverviewNCBI Gene

This gene belongs to the paired homeobox family and is located in the pseudoautosomal region 1 (PAR1) of X and Y chromosomes. Defects in this gene are associated with idiopathic growth retardation and in the short stature phenotype of Turner syndrome patients. This gene is highly conserved across species from mammals to fish to flies. Alternatively spliced transcript variants encoding different isoforms have been noted for this gene. [provided by RefSeq, Jul 2008]

Canonical amino-acid sequenceUniProt

292 residues, UniProt reviewed canonical sequence.

>O15266|SHOX
     1  MEELTAFVSK SFDQKSKDGN GGGGGGGGKK DSITYREVLE SGLARSRELG TSDSSLQDIT
    61  EGGGHCPVHL FKDHVDNDKE KLKEFGTARV AEGIYECKEK REDVKSEDED GQTKLKQRRS
   121  RTNFTLEQLN ELERLFDETH YPDAFMREEL SQRLGLSEAR VQVWFQNRRA KCRKQENQMH
   181  KGVILGTANH LDACRVAPYV NMGALRMPFQ QVQAQLQLEG VAHAHPHLHP HLAAHAPYLM
   241  FPPPPFGLPI ASLAESASAA AVVAAAAKSN SKNSSIADLR LKARKHAEAL GL

LocalizationUniProt · AlphaFold · HPA

Whether an antibody against SHOX 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)
0.62
Highest tissue expression
1 nTPM

Expression across tissuesHPA

Tissue

  • skeletal muscle: 1 nTPM
  • bone marrow: 0.8 nTPM
  • adipose tissue: 0.6 nTPM
  • spleen: 0.6 nTPM
  • duodenum: 0.5 nTPM
  • salivary gland: 0.5 nTPM

Single-cell type

  • myonuclei: 11 nCPM
  • fibro-adipogenic progenitors: 5.7 nCPM
  • myosatellite cells: 5 nCPM
  • pericytes: 3.1 nCPM
  • fibroblasts: 2.9 nCPM
  • migrating cytotrophoblasts: 2.6 nCPM

Immune cell

  • basophil: 5.1 nTPM
  • neutrophil: 1.7 nTPM
  • eosinophil: 0.9 nTPM
  • NK-cell: 0.8 nTPM
  • naive B-cell: 0.6 nTPM
  • classical monocyte: 0.5 nTPM

Brain region

  • midbrain: 22 nTPM
  • pons: 20 nTPM
  • thalamus: 7.3 nTPM
  • cerebellum: 7.1 nTPM
  • medulla oblongata: 6.8 nTPM
  • white matter: 6.3 nTPM

DiseaseUniProt · ClinVar · IEDB · PubMed

Four sources answering four different questions about SHOX.

Disease | AllUniProt

Conditions SHOX is implicated in, by any mechanism.

Disease | GeneticClinVar

114 pathogenic / likely-pathogenic of 539 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)
0.52
gnomAD pLI
0.67
gnomAD missense Z
-0.54

OntologyGO

Biological processes

Molecular functions

Cellular components

Protein domainsUniProt · Pfam · InterPro

KeywordsUniProt

Antibody and autoantibody relevanceSeroatlas analysis

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

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

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