Seroatlas · Human Serome Atlas

STEEP1

STING ER exit protein

Also known as: CXorf56, FLJ22965, STEEP_HUMAN

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

Protein identityUniProt · HPA

UniProt accession
Q9H5V9
Gene
STEEP1
Ensembl
ENSG00000018610
Chromosome
X
Canonical length
222 aa
Protein class
Disease related genes, Human disease related genes, Predicted intracellular proteins
Subcellular location
Nucleoplasm,Centrosome

OverviewNCBI Gene

While this gene is well-supported by transcript data, no functional information on its protein products is currently available. Three transcript variants encoding different isoforms have been found for this gene. [provided by RefSeq, Dec 2009]

Canonical amino-acid sequenceUniProt

222 residues, UniProt reviewed canonical sequence.

>Q9H5V9|STEEP1
     1  MPKVVSRSVV CSDTRDREEY DDGEKPLHVY YCLCGQMVLV LDCQLEKLPM RPRDRSRVID
    61  AAKHAHKFCN TEDEETMYLR RPEGIERQYR KKCAKCGLPL FYQSQPKNAP VTFIVDGAVV
   121  KFGQGFGKTN IYTQKQEPPK KVMMTKRTKD MGKFSSVTVS TIDEEEEEIE AREVADSYAQ
   181  NAKVIEKQLE RKGMSKRRLQ ELAELEAKKA KMKGTLIDNQ FK

LocalizationUniProt · AlphaFold · HPA

Whether an antibody against STEEP1 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
0
Mean surface accessibility (rSASA)
0.47
Highest tissue expression
15 nTPM

Expression across tissuesHPA

Tissue

  • bone marrow: 15 nTPM
  • ovary: 13 nTPM
  • tongue: 12 nTPM
  • skeletal muscle: 12 nTPM
  • breast: 12 nTPM
  • blood vessel: 11 nTPM

Single-cell type

  • syncytiotrophoblasts: 57 nCPM
  • oocytes: 55 nCPM
  • extravillous trophoblasts: 32 nCPM
  • cytotrophoblasts: 29 nCPM
  • migrating cytotrophoblasts: 28 nCPM
  • retinal ganglion cells: 27 nCPM

Immune cell

  • naive B-cell: 16 nTPM
  • eosinophil: 14 nTPM
  • intermediate monocyte: 13 nTPM
  • non-classical monocyte: 12 nTPM
  • memory B-cell: 11 nTPM
  • T-reg: 10 nTPM

Brain region

  • hypothalamus: 18 nTPM
  • white matter: 18 nTPM
  • pons: 17 nTPM
  • basal ganglia: 17 nTPM
  • cerebral cortex: 16 nTPM
  • thalamus: 16 nTPM

DiseaseUniProt · ClinVar · IEDB · PubMed

Four sources answering four different questions about STEEP1.

Disease | AllUniProt

Conditions STEEP1 is implicated in, by any mechanism.

Disease | GeneticClinVar

5 pathogenic / likely-pathogenic of 87 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)
0.31
gnomAD pLI
0.95
DepMap mean gene effect
-0.21
DepMap dependency class
selective

Cancer expressionTCGA

Across TCGA tumor cohorts, this protein is over-expressed in roughly 6% 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

  • STEEP-like
  • STEEP1 domain
  • STEEP1 domain

KeywordsUniProt

InteractionsUniProt · HPA

Protein binding partners of STEEP1 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 STEEP1 as an antibody target. Whether an autoantibody or antibody against STEEP1 could matter depends on whether native STEEP1 is physically reachable, whether the body needs it intact, and whether it acts in a disease-relevant tissue.

STEEP1 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 STEEP1 as an autoantigen. Seroatlas presents hypothesis context only and does not manufacture a known-serology claim.

Canonical record: https://seroatlas.com/gene/STEEP1. 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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