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ST6GALNAC5

Alpha-N-acetylgalactosaminide alpha-2,6-sialyltransferase 5

Also known as: MGC3184, SIA7E_HUMAN, SIAT7E, ST6GalNAcV

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

Protein identityUniProt · HPA

UniProt accession
Q9BVH7
Gene
ST6GALNAC5
Ensembl
ENSG00000117069
Chromosome
1
Canonical length
336 aa
Protein class
Metabolic proteins, Predicted intracellular proteins
Subcellular location
Vesicles
Secretome location
Intracellular and membrane

OverviewNCBI Gene

The protein encoded by this gene is a Golgi type II transmembrane glycosyltransferase. The encoded protein catalyzes the transfer of sialic acid to cell surface proteins to modulate cell-cell interactions. Several transcript variants encoding different isoforms have been found for this gene. [provided by RefSeq, Feb 2016]

Canonical amino-acid sequenceUniProt

336 residues, UniProt reviewed canonical sequence.

>Q9BVH7|ST6GALNAC5
     1  MKTLMRHGLA VCLALTTMCT SLLLVYSSLG GQKERPPQQQ QQQQQQQQQA SATGSSQPAA
    61  ESSTQQRPGV PAGPRPLDGY LGVADHKPLK MHCRDCALVT SSGHLLHSRQ GSQIDQTECV
   121  IRMNDAPTRG YGRDVGNRTS LRVIAHSSIQ RILRNRHDLL NVSQGTVFIF WGPSSYMRRD
   181  GKGQVYNNLH LLSQVLPRLK AFMITRHKML QFDELFKQET GKDRKISNTW LSTGWFTMTI
   241  ALELCDRINV YGMVPPDFCR DPNHPSVPYH YYEPFGPDEC TMYLSHERGR KGSHHRFITE
   301  KRVFKNWART FNIHFFQPDW KPESLAINHP ENKPVF

LocalizationUniProt · AlphaFold · HPA

Whether an antibody against ST6GALNAC5 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
Other membrane
Secreted
No
Transmembrane segments
1
Mean surface accessibility (rSASA)
0.36
Highest tissue expression
3.5 nTPM

Expression across tissuesHPA

Tissue

  • hippocampal formation: 3.5 nTPM
  • lung: 3.4 nTPM
  • blood vessel: 3.3 nTPM
  • cerebral cortex: 3.2 nTPM
  • retina: 3 nTPM
  • adrenal gland: 2.8 nTPM

Single-cell type

  • thyrotrophs: 846 nCPM
  • brain excitatory neurons: 702 nCPM
  • corticotrophs: 541 nCPM
  • pituitary stem cells: 532 nCPM
  • lactotrophs: 525 nCPM
  • retinal bipolar cells: 465 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

  • cerebral cortex: 18 nTPM
  • hippocampal formation: 16 nTPM
  • amygdala: 7.3 nTPM
  • basal ganglia: 6.8 nTPM
  • white matter: 4.5 nTPM
  • midbrain: 3.3 nTPM

DiseaseUniProt · ClinVar · IEDB · PubMed

Four sources answering four different questions about ST6GALNAC5.

Disease | GeneticClinVar

1 pathogenic / likely-pathogenic of 62 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)
0.61
gnomAD pLI
0.17
gnomAD missense Z
0.54
DepMap mean gene effect
-0.05
DepMap dependency class
none

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

Antibody and autoantibody relevanceSeroatlas analysis

Seroatlas reads ST6GALNAC5 as an antibody target. Whether an autoantibody or antibody against ST6GALNAC5 could matter depends on whether native ST6GALNAC5 is physically reachable, whether the body needs it intact, and whether it acts in a disease-relevant tissue.

ST6GALNAC5 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 ST6GALNAC5 as an autoantigen. Seroatlas presents hypothesis context only and does not manufacture a known-serology claim.

Canonical record: https://seroatlas.com/gene/ST6GALNAC5. 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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