Seroatlas · Human Serome Atlas

STK39

STE20/SPS1-related proline-alanine-rich protein kinase

Also known as: DCHT, SPAK, STK39_HUMAN

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

Protein identityUniProt · HPA

UniProt accession
Q9UEW8
Gene
STK39
Ensembl
ENSG00000198648
Chromosome
2
Canonical length
545 aa
Protein class
Enzymes, Predicted intracellular proteins
Subcellular location
Nucleoplasm,Vesicles,Cytosol

OverviewNCBI Gene

This gene encodes a serine/threonine kinase that is thought to function in the cellular stress response pathway. The kinase is activated in response to hypotonic stress, leading to phosphorylation of several cation-chloride-coupled cotransporters. The catalytically active kinase specifically activates the p38 MAP kinase pathway, and its interaction with p38 decreases upon cellular stress, suggesting that this kinase may serve as an intermediate in the response to cellular stress. [provided by RefSeq, Jul 2008]

Canonical amino-acid sequenceUniProt

545 residues, UniProt reviewed canonical sequence.

>Q9UEW8|STK39
     1  MAEPSGSPVH VQLPQQAAPV TAAAAAAPAA ATAAPAPAAP AAPAPAPAPA AQAVGWPICR
    61  DAYELQEVIG SGATAVVQAA LCKPRQERVA IKRINLEKCQ TSMDELLKEI QAMSQCSHPN
   121  VVTYYTSFVV KDELWLVMKL LSGGSMLDII KYIVNRGEHK NGVLEEAIIA TILKEVLEGL
   181  DYLHRNGQIH RDLKAGNILL GEDGSVQIAD FGVSAFLATG GDVTRNKVRK TFVGTPCWMA
   241  PEVMEQVRGY DFKADMWSFG ITAIELATGA APYHKYPPMK VLMLTLQNDP PTLETGVEDK
   301  EMMKKYGKSF RKLLSLCLQK DPSKRPTAAE LLKCKFFQKA KNREYLIEKL LTRTPDIAQR
   361  AKKVRRVPGS SGHLHKTEDG DWEWSDDEMD EKSEEGKAAF SQEKSRRVKE ENPEIAVSAS
   421  TIPEQIQSLS VHDSQGPPNA NEDYREASSC AVNLVLRLRN SRKELNDIRF EFTPGRDTAD
   481  GVSQELFSAG LVDGHDVVIV AANLQKIVDD PKALKTLTFK LASGCDGSEI PDEVKLIGFA
   541  QLSVS

LocalizationUniProt · AlphaFold · HPA

Whether an antibody against STK39 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)
0.34
Highest tissue expression
65 nTPM

Expression across tissuesHPA

Tissue

  • salivary gland: 65 nTPM
  • choroid plexus: 55 nTPM
  • testis: 46 nTPM
  • spinal cord: 41 nTPM
  • esophagus: 35 nTPM
  • rectum: 31 nTPM

Single-cell type

  • lacrimal acinar cells: 2,352 nCPM
  • choroid plexus epithelial cells: 2,338 nCPM
  • salivary ionocytes: 1,567 nCPM
  • pituicytes/fscs: 933 nCPM
  • pituitary stem cells: 861 nCPM
  • conjunctival goblet cells: 860 nCPM

Immune cell

  • T-reg: 1.8 nTPM
  • memory CD8 T-cell: 1.7 nTPM
  • gdT-cell: 1.1 nTPM
  • NK-cell: 1 nTPM
  • memory CD4 T-cell: 0.9 nTPM
  • naive CD8 T-cell: 0.8 nTPM

Brain region

  • choroid plexus: 134 nTPM
  • white matter: 96 nTPM
  • pons: 87 nTPM
  • medulla oblongata: 79 nTPM
  • midbrain: 75 nTPM
  • cerebellum: 74 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)
0.23
gnomAD pLI
1
gnomAD missense Z
2.11
DepMap mean gene effect
-0.05
DepMap dependency class
selective

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

KeywordsUniProt

InteractionsUniProt · HPA

Protein binding partners of STK39 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 STK39 as an antibody target. Whether an autoantibody or antibody against STK39 could matter depends on whether native STK39 is physically reachable, whether the body needs it intact, and whether it acts in a disease-relevant tissue.

STK39 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 STK39 as an autoantigen. Seroatlas presents hypothesis context only and does not manufacture a known-serology claim.

Canonical record: https://seroatlas.com/gene/STK39. 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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