SNX31
Sorting nexin-31
Also known as: MGC39715, SNX31_HUMAN
Cross-references: UniProt · Ensembl · Human Protein Atlas · GeneCards · NCBI Gene
Protein identityUniProt · HPA
- UniProt accession
- Q8N9S9
- Gene
- SNX31
- Ensembl
- ENSG00000174226
- Chromosome
- 8
- Canonical length
- 440 aa
- Protein class
- Predicted intracellular proteins, Transporters
- Subcellular location
- Nucleoplasm,Golgi apparatus,Cytosol
OverviewNCBI Gene
Predicted to enable phosphatidylinositol binding activity. Predicted to be involved in endocytic recycling and intracellular protein transport. Predicted to be located in cytoskeleton. Predicted to be part of protein-containing complex. Predicted to be active in early endosome. [provided by Alliance of Genome Resources, Jul 2025]
Canonical amino-acid sequenceUniProt
440 residues, UniProt reviewed canonical sequence.
>Q8N9S9|SNX31
1 MKMHFCIPVS QQRSDALGGR YVLYSVHLDG FLFCRVRYSQ LHGWNEQLRR VFGNCLPPFP
61 PKYYLAMTTA MADERRDQLE QYLQNVTMDP NVLRSDVFVE FLKLAQLNTF DIATKKAYLD
121 IFLPNEQSIR IEIITSDTAE RVLEVVSHKI GLCRELLGYF GLFLIRFGKE GKLSVVKKLA
181 DFELPYVSLG SSEVENCKVG LRKWYMAPSL DSVLMDCRVA VDLLYMQAIQ DIEKGWAKPT
241 QAQRQKLEAF QKEDSQTKFL ELAREVRHYG YLQLDPCTCD YPESGSGAVL SVGNNEISCC
301 ITLPDSQTQD IVFQMSRVKC WQVTFLGTLL DTDGPQRTLN QNLELRFQYS EDSCWQWFVI
361 YTKQAFLLSS CLKKMISEKM VKLAAENTEM QIEVPEQSKS KKYHIQQSQQ KDYSSFLSRK
421 SKIKIAKDDC VFGNIKEEDLLocalizationUniProt · AlphaFold · HPA
Whether an antibody against SNX31 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)
- 0.3
- Highest tissue expression
- 15 nTPM
Expression across tissuesHPA
Tissue
- urinary bladder: 15 nTPM
- esophagus: 6.1 nTPM
- testis: 3.7 nTPM
- tonsil: 3.4 nTPM
- cerebral cortex: 2.1 nTPM
- heart muscle: 1.6 nTPM
Single-cell type
- respiratory basal cells: 229 nCPM
- papillary tip epithelial cells: 195 nCPM
- pdcs: 182 nCPM
- urothelial cells: 165 nCPM
- prostatic hillock cells: 161 nCPM
- early spermatids: 132 nCPM
Immune cell
- basophil: 0.5 nTPM
- memory B-cell: 0.2 nTPM
- neutrophil: 0.2 nTPM
- NK-cell: 0.2 nTPM
- classical monocyte: 0 nTPM
- eosinophil: 0 nTPM
Brain region
- cerebral cortex: 13 nTPM
- white matter: 10 nTPM
- hippocampal formation: 8.6 nTPM
- basal ganglia: 8.5 nTPM
- amygdala: 8.3 nTPM
- cerebellum: 8.3 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)
- 1.1
- gnomAD pLI
- 0
- gnomAD missense Z
- 0.06
- DepMap mean gene effect
- 0.03
- 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
- Phox homology
- PH-like domain superfamily
- PX domain superfamily
- Sorting nexin-17/31, FERM domain
- Sortin nexin 17/31, FERM domain, F1 lobe
- Sortin nexin 17/31, FERM domain, F2 lobe
- PX domain
- Sorting Nexin 17 FERM C-terminal domain
- Sortin nexin 17/31, FERM domain, F2 lobe
- Sortin nexin 17/27/31, FERM domain, F1 lobe
KeywordsUniProt
InteractionsUniProt · HPA
Protein binding partners of SNX31 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 SNX31 as an antibody target. Whether an autoantibody or antibody against SNX31 could matter depends on whether native SNX31 is physically reachable, whether the body needs it intact, and whether it acts in a disease-relevant tissue.
SNX31 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 SNX31 as an autoantigen. Seroatlas presents hypothesis context only and does not manufacture a known-serology claim.
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