Seroatlas · Human Serome Atlas

SIX1

Homeobox protein SIX1

Also known as: DFNA23, SIX1_HUMAN

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

Protein identityUniProt · HPA

UniProt accession
Q15475
Gene
SIX1
Ensembl
ENSG00000126778
Chromosome
14
Canonical length
284 aa
Protein class
Cancer-related genes, Disease related genes, Human disease related genes, Predicted intracellular proteins, Transcription factors
Subcellular location
Nucleoplasm,Nucleoli

OverviewNCBI Gene

The protein encoded by this gene is a homeobox protein that is similar to the Drosophila 'sine oculis' gene product. This gene is found in a cluster of related genes on chromosome 14 and is thought to be involved in limb development. Defects in this gene are a cause of autosomal dominant deafness type 23 (DFNA23) and branchiootic syndrome type 3 (BOS3). [provided by RefSeq, Jul 2008]

Canonical amino-acid sequenceUniProt

284 residues, UniProt reviewed canonical sequence.

>Q15475|SIX1
     1  MSMLPSFGFT QEQVACVCEV LQQGGNLERL GRFLWSLPAC DHLHKNESVL KAKAVVAFHR
    61  GNFRELYKIL ESHQFSPHNH PKLQQLWLKA HYVEAEKLRG RPLGAVGKYR VRRKFPLPRT
   121  IWDGEETSYC FKEKSRGVLR EWYAHNPYPS PREKRELAEA TGLTTTQVSN WFKNRRQRDR
   181  AAEAKERENT ENNNSSSNKQ NQLSPLEGGK PLMSSSEEEF SPPQSPDQNS VLLLQGNMGH
   241  ARSSNYSLPG LTASQPSHGL QTHQHQLQDS LLGPLTSSLV DLGS

LocalizationUniProt · AlphaFold · HPA

Whether an antibody against SIX1 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)
0.48
Highest tissue expression
112 nTPM

Expression across tissuesHPA

Tissue

  • skeletal muscle: 112 nTPM
  • salivary gland: 48 nTPM
  • parathyroid gland: 45 nTPM
  • tongue: 43 nTPM
  • pituitary gland: 20 nTPM
  • cervix: 14 nTPM

Single-cell type

  • myonuclei: 149 nCPM
  • lacrimal acinar cells: 137 nCPM
  • medullary thymic epithelial cells: 134 nCPM
  • gonadotrophs: 125 nCPM
  • pituitary stem cells: 110 nCPM
  • myosatellite cells: 104 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

  • choroid plexus: 1.6 nTPM
  • basal ganglia: 0.6 nTPM
  • cerebellum: 0.6 nTPM
  • cerebral cortex: 0.6 nTPM
  • thalamus: 0.6 nTPM
  • pons: 0.4 nTPM

DiseaseUniProt · ClinVar · IEDB · PubMed

Four sources answering four different questions about SIX1.

Disease | AllUniProt

Conditions SIX1 is implicated in, by any mechanism.

Disease | GeneticClinVar

26 pathogenic / likely-pathogenic of 278 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
0.65
gnomAD missense Z
1.19
DepMap mean gene effect
-0.2
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 SIX1 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 SIX1 as an antibody target. Whether an autoantibody or antibody against SIX1 could matter depends on whether native SIX1 is physically reachable, whether the body needs it intact, and whether it acts in a disease-relevant tissue.

SIX1 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 SIX1 as an autoantigen. Seroatlas presents hypothesis context only and does not manufacture a known-serology claim.

Canonical record: https://seroatlas.com/gene/SIX1. 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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