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 QLSVSLocalizationUniProt · 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
- cell volume homeostasis
- cellular hyperosmotic response
- cellular hypotonic response
- cellular response to chemokine
- cellular response to potassium ion
- chemokine (C-X-C motif) ligand 12 signaling pathway
- inflammatory response
- intracellular chloride ion homeostasis
- intracellular signal transduction
- macrophage activation
- maintenance of lens transparency
- negative regulation of pancreatic juice secretion
- negative regulation of potassium ion transmembrane transport
- negative regulation of sodium ion transmembrane transport
- negative regulation of transmembrane transport
- peptidyl-serine phosphorylation
- peptidyl-threonine phosphorylation
- positive regulation of p38MAPK cascade
- positive regulation of potassium ion import across plasma membrane
- positive regulation of T cell chemotaxis
- protein autophosphorylation
- protein phosphorylation
- regulation of blood pressure
- regulation of inflammatory response
- regulation of monoatomic cation transmembrane transport
- renal sodium ion absorption
- response to aldosterone
- response to dietary excess
- signal transduction
- sodium ion transmembrane transport
- positive regulation of sodium ion import across plasma membrane
Molecular functions
- ATP binding
- ion channel regulator activity
- kinase activity
- potassium channel inhibitor activity
- protein kinase binding
- protein serine kinase activity
- protein serine/threonine kinase activity
- transmembrane transporter binding
- transporter activator activity
- transporter inhibitor activity
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.
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