Seroatlas · Human Serome Atlas

STK32A

Serine/threonine-protein kinase 32A

Also known as: MGC22688, ST32A_HUMAN, YANK1

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

Protein identityUniProt · HPA

UniProt accession
Q8WU08
Gene
STK32A
Ensembl
ENSG00000169302
Chromosome
5
Canonical length
396 aa
Protein class
Enzymes, Predicted intracellular proteins
Subcellular location
Centrosome

OverviewNCBI Gene

Predicted to enable protein serine/threonine kinase activity. Predicted to be involved in intracellular signal transduction. Predicted to be located in plasma membrane. [provided by Alliance of Genome Resources, Jul 2025]

Canonical amino-acid sequenceUniProt

396 residues, UniProt reviewed canonical sequence.

>Q8WU08|STK32A
     1  MGANTSRKPP VFDENEDVNF DHFEILRAIG KGSFGKVCIV QKNDTKKMYA MKYMNKQKCV
    61  ERNEVRNVFK ELQIMQGLEH PFLVNLWYSF QDEEDMFMVV DLLLGGDLRY HLQQNVHFKE
   121  ETVKLFICEL VMALDYLQNQ RIIHRDMKPD NILLDEHGHV HITDFNIAAM LPRETQITTM
   181  AGTKPYMAPE MFSSRKGAGY SFAVDWWSLG VTAYELLRGR RPYHIRSSTS SKEIVHTFET
   241  TVVTYPSAWS QEMVSLLKKL LEPNPDQRFS QLSDVQNFPY MNDINWDAVF QKRLIPGFIP
   301  NKGRLNCDPT FELEEMILES KPLHKKKKRL AKKEKDMRKC DSSQTCLLQE HLDSVQKEFI
   361  IFNREKVNRD FNKRQPNLAL EQTKDPQGED GQNNNL

LocalizationUniProt · AlphaFold · HPA

Whether an antibody against STK32A 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
Cell surface
Secreted
No
Transmembrane segments
0
Mean surface accessibility (rSASA)
0.3
Highest tissue expression
11 nTPM

Expression across tissuesHPA

Tissue

  • midbrain: 11 nTPM
  • adrenal gland: 11 nTPM
  • hypothalamus: 9.6 nTPM
  • thyroid gland: 8.1 nTPM
  • cerebellum: 5.6 nTPM
  • pituitary gland: 5.2 nTPM

Single-cell type

  • bergmann glia: 845 nCPM
  • pituicytes/fscs: 474 nCPM
  • oligodendrocyte progenitor cells: 468 nCPM
  • ependymal cells: 161 nCPM
  • schwann cells: 119 nCPM
  • astrocytes: 119 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

  • midbrain: 53 nTPM
  • pons: 36 nTPM
  • hypothalamus: 30 nTPM
  • medulla oblongata: 30 nTPM
  • cerebellum: 28 nTPM
  • thalamus: 24 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)
0.98
gnomAD pLI
0
gnomAD missense Z
0.58
DepMap mean gene effect
0.12
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 STK32A as an antibody target. Whether an autoantibody or antibody against STK32A could matter depends on whether native STK32A is physically reachable, whether the body needs it intact, and whether it acts in a disease-relevant tissue.

STK32A is annotated at the cell surface, where native STK32A is exposed to circulating antibodies and is a prime autoantibody target that could block, deplete, or overstimulate it.

Annotation status

The present source text does not explicitly label STK32A as an autoantigen. Seroatlas presents hypothesis context only and does not manufacture a known-serology claim.

Canonical record: https://seroatlas.com/gene/STK32A. 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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