Seroatlas · Human Serome Atlas

SNAI1

Zinc finger protein SNAI1

Also known as: SLUGH2, SNA, SNAH, SNAI1_HUMAN, SNAIL, SNAIL1

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

Protein identityUniProt · HPA

UniProt accession
O95863
Gene
SNAI1
Ensembl
ENSG00000124216
Chromosome
20
Canonical length
264 aa
Protein class
Predicted intracellular proteins, Transcription factors
Subcellular location
Nucleoplasm

OverviewNCBI Gene

The Drosophila embryonic protein snail is a zinc finger transcriptional repressor which downregulates the expression of ectodermal genes within the mesoderm. The nuclear protein encoded by this gene is structurally similar to the Drosophila snail protein, and is also thought to be critical for mesoderm formation in the developing embryo. At least two variants of a similar processed pseudogene have been found on chromosome 2. [provided by RefSeq, Jul 2008]

Canonical amino-acid sequenceUniProt

264 residues, UniProt reviewed canonical sequence.

>O95863|SNAI1
     1  MPRSFLVRKP SDPNRKPNYS ELQDSNPEFT FQQPYDQAHL LAAIPPPEIL NPTASLPMLI
    61  WDSVLAPQAQ PIAWASLRLQ ESPRVAELTS LSDEDSGKGS QPPSPPSPAP SSFSSTSVSS
   121  LEAEAYAAFP GLGQVPKQLA QLSEAKDLQA RKAFNCKYCN KEYLSLGALK MHIRSHTLPC
   181  VCGTCGKAFS RPWLLQGHVR THTGEKPFSC PHCSRAFADR SNLRAHLQTH SDVKKYQCQA
   241  CARTFSRMSL LHKHQESGCS GCPR

LocalizationUniProt · AlphaFold · HPA

Whether an antibody against SNAI1 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)
0.57
Highest tissue expression
29 nTPM

Expression across tissuesHPA

Tissue

  • adipose tissue: 29 nTPM
  • blood vessel: 17 nTPM
  • breast: 16 nTPM
  • lung: 16 nTPM
  • heart muscle: 16 nTPM
  • gallbladder: 15 nTPM

Single-cell type

  • extravillous trophoblasts: 116 nCPM
  • breast lactating cells: 61 nCPM
  • pdcs: 55 nCPM
  • vascular endothelial cells: 49 nCPM
  • tuft cells: 46 nCPM
  • hepatic stellate cells: 45 nCPM

Immune cell

  • plasmacytoid DC: 1.2 nTPM
  • myeloid DC: 0.3 nTPM
  • classical monocyte: 0.2 nTPM
  • basophil: 0 nTPM
  • eosinophil: 0 nTPM
  • gdT-cell: 0 nTPM

Brain region

  • medulla oblongata: 6.7 nTPM
  • thalamus: 6.5 nTPM
  • hypothalamus: 5.6 nTPM
  • white matter: 3.6 nTPM
  • cerebral cortex: 3.5 nTPM
  • midbrain: 3.2 nTPM

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)
0.68
gnomAD pLI
0.22
gnomAD missense Z
1.31
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 SNAI1 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 SNAI1 as an antibody target. Whether an autoantibody or antibody against SNAI1 could matter depends on whether native SNAI1 is physically reachable, whether the body needs it intact, and whether it acts in a disease-relevant tissue.

SNAI1 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 SNAI1 as an autoantigen. Seroatlas presents hypothesis context only and does not manufacture a known-serology claim.

Canonical record: https://seroatlas.com/gene/SNAI1. 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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