SP5
Transcription factor Sp5
Also known as: SP5_HUMAN
Cross-references: UniProt · Ensembl · Human Protein Atlas · GeneCards · NCBI Gene
Protein identityUniProt · HPA
- UniProt accession
- Q6BEB4
- Gene
- SP5
- Ensembl
- ENSG00000204335
- Chromosome
- 2
- Canonical length
- 398 aa
- Protein class
- Predicted intracellular proteins, Transcription factors
- Subcellular location
- Nucleoplasm,Nucleoli
OverviewNCBI Gene
Predicted to enable DNA-binding transcription factor activity, RNA polymerase II-specific and RNA polymerase II cis-regulatory region sequence-specific DNA binding activity. Predicted to be involved in regulation of transcription by RNA polymerase II. Predicted to act upstream of or within bone morphogenesis and post-anal tail morphogenesis. Predicted to be located in chromatin. [provided by Alliance of Genome Resources, Jul 2025]
Canonical amino-acid sequenceUniProt
398 residues, UniProt reviewed canonical sequence.
>Q6BEB4|SP5
1 MAAVAVLRND SLQAFLQDRT PSASPDLGKH SPLALLAATC SRIGQPGAAA PPDFLQVPYD
61 PALGSPSRLF HPWTADMPAH SPGALPPPHP SLGLTPQKTH LQPSFGAAHE LPLTPPADPS
121 YPYEFSPVKM LPSSMAALPA SCAPAYVPYA AQAALPPGYS NLLPPPPPPP PPPTCRQLSP
181 NPAPDDLPWW SIPQAGAGPG ASGVPGSGLS GACAGAPHAP RFPASAAAAA AAAAALQRGL
241 VLGPSDFAQY QSQIAALLQT KAPLAATARR CRRCRCPNCQ AAGGAPEAEP GKKKQHVCHV
301 PGCGKVYGKT SHLKAHLRWH TGERPFVCNW LFCGKSFTRS DELQRHLRTH TGEKRFACPE
361 CGKRFMRSDH LAKHVKTHQN KKLKVAEAGV KREDARDLLocalizationUniProt · AlphaFold · HPA
Whether an antibody against SP5 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)
- 0.64
- Highest tissue expression
- 6 nTPM
Expression across tissuesHPA
Tissue
- cervix: 6 nTPM
- skin: 4.4 nTPM
- endometrium: 3 nTPM
- stomach: 3 nTPM
- adipose tissue: 2.4 nTPM
- vagina: 2.1 nTPM
Single-cell type
- decidual stromal cells: 17 nCPM
- epididymal clear cells: 16 nCPM
- gastric chief cells: 12 nCPM
- epididymal basal cells: 12 nCPM
- parietal cells: 11 nCPM
- undifferentiated spermatogonia: 6.8 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
- cerebellum: 5.2 nTPM
- thalamus: 4.2 nTPM
- hypothalamus: 3.5 nTPM
- midbrain: 3.5 nTPM
- choroid plexus: 1.6 nTPM
- amygdala: 1.5 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)
- 0.6
- gnomAD pLI
- 0.52
- gnomAD missense Z
- -0.02
- DepMap mean gene effect
- -0.06
- DepMap dependency class
- selective
Cancer expressionTCGA
Across TCGA tumor cohorts, this protein is over-expressed in roughly 3% of surveyed tumor types (aggregate summary; per-cohort expression, alteration, and survival load in the interactive view).
OntologyGO
Biological processes
Molecular functions
- DNA-binding transcription factor activity, RNA polymerase II-specific
- DNA-binding transcription repressor activity, RNA polymerase II-specific
- RNA polymerase II cis-regulatory region sequence-specific DNA binding
- zinc ion binding
Cellular components
Protein domainsUniProt · Pfam · InterPro
KeywordsUniProt
Antibody and autoantibody relevanceSeroatlas analysis
Seroatlas reads SP5 as an antibody target. Whether an autoantibody or antibody against SP5 could matter depends on whether native SP5 is physically reachable, whether the body needs it intact, and whether it acts in a disease-relevant tissue.
SP5 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 SP5 as an autoantigen. Seroatlas presents hypothesis context only and does not manufacture a known-serology claim.
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