STS
Steryl-sulfatase
Also known as: STS_HUMAN
Protein identityUniProt · HPA
- UniProt accession
- P08842
- Gene
- STS
- Canonical length
- 583 aa
- Protein class
- Human disease related genes, Metabolic proteins, Predicted membrane proteins
- Quaternary structure
- Homodimer
OverviewNCBI Gene
No narrative summary is available for STS in this catalog release; identity and structured annotations are shown without generated factual claims.
Canonical amino-acid sequenceUniProt
583 residues, UniProt reviewed canonical sequence.
>P08842|STS
1 MPLRKMKIPF LLLFFLWEAE SHAASRPNII LVMADDLGIG DPGCYGNKTI RTPNIDRLAS
61 GGVKLTQHLA ASPLCTPSRA AFMTGRYPVR SGMASWSRTG VFLFTASSGG LPTDEITFAK
121 LLKDQGYSTA LIGKWHLGMS CHSKTDFCHH PLHHGFNYFY GISLTNLRDC KPGEGSVFTT
181 GFKRLVFLPL QIVGVTLLTL AALNCLGLLH VPLGVFFSLL FLAALILTLF LGFLHYFRPL
241 NCFMMRNYEI IQQPMSYDNL TQRLTVEAAQ FIQRNTETPF LLVLSYLHVH TALFSSKDFA
301 GKSQHGVYGD AVEEMDWSVG QILNLLDELR LANDTLIYFT SDQGAHVEEV SSKGEIHGGS
361 NGIYKGGKAN NWEGGIRVPG ILRWPRVIQA GQKIDEPTSN MDIFPTVAKL AGAPLPEDRI
421 IDGRDLMPLL EGKSQRSDHE FLFHYCNAYL NAVRWHPQNS TSIWKAFFFT PNFNPVGSNG
481 CFATHVCFCF GSYVTHHDPP LLFDISKDPR ERNPLTPASE PRFYEILKVM QEAADRHTQT
541 LPEVPDQFSW NNFLWKPWLQ LCCPSTGLSC QCDREKQDKR LSRLocalizationUniProt · AlphaFold · HPA
Whether an antibody against STS 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
- 2
- Mean surface accessibility (rSASA)
- 0.23
- Highest tissue expression
- 25 nTPM
Expression across tissuesHPA
Tissue
- placenta: 25 nTPM
- adipose tissue: 17 nTPM
- blood vessel: 13 nTPM
- stomach: 11 nTPM
- cerebral cortex: 9.1 nTPM
- urinary bladder: 8.8 nTPM
Single-cell type
- foveolar cells: 244 nCPM
- syncytiotrophoblasts: 207 nCPM
- cytotrophoblasts: 140 nCPM
- prostatic glandular cells: 118 nCPM
- respiratory ionocytes: 114 nCPM
- migrating cytotrophoblasts: 112 nCPM
Immune cell
- intermediate monocyte: 2 nTPM
- classical monocyte: 1.7 nTPM
- neutrophil: 1.3 nTPM
- non-classical monocyte: 1.3 nTPM
- myeloid DC: 0.9 nTPM
- basophil: 0.8 nTPM
Brain region
- thalamus: 47 nTPM
- cerebral cortex: 46 nTPM
- white matter: 37 nTPM
- midbrain: 33 nTPM
- pons: 33 nTPM
- medulla oblongata: 31 nTPM
DiseaseUniProt · ClinVar · IEDB · PubMed
Four sources answering four different questions about STS.
Disease | AllUniProt
Conditions STS is implicated in, by any mechanism.
- Ichthyosis, X-linked (IXL) MIM:308100
Disease | GeneticClinVar
21 pathogenic / likely-pathogenic of 252 ClinVar records.
Conditions with pathogenic or likely-pathogenic variants.
- X-linked ichthyosis with steryl-sulfatase deficiency
- STS-related disorder
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)
- 0.44
- gnomAD pLI
- 0.81
- gnomAD missense Z
- 1.09
- DepMap mean gene effect
- 0.17
- 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
- arylsulfatase activity
- metal ion binding
- sulfuric ester hydrolase activity
- steryl-sulfatase activity
Cellular components
Protein domainsUniProt · Pfam · InterPro
KeywordsUniProt
Antibody and autoantibody relevanceSeroatlas analysis
Seroatlas reads STS as an antibody target. Whether an autoantibody or antibody against STS could matter depends on whether native STS is physically reachable, whether the body needs it intact, and whether it acts in a disease-relevant tissue.
STS 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 STS as an autoantigen. Seroatlas presents hypothesis context only and does not manufacture a known-serology claim.
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