Seroatlas · Human Serome Atlas

SUMF1

Formylglycine-generating enzyme

Also known as: FGE, SUMF1_HUMAN, UNQ3037

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

Protein identityUniProt · HPA

UniProt accession
Q8NBK3
Gene
SUMF1
Ensembl
ENSG00000144455
Chromosome
3
Canonical length
374 aa
Protein class
Disease related genes, Enzymes, Human disease related genes, Potential drug targets, Predicted intracellular proteins
Secretome location
Intracellular and membrane
Quaternary structure
Homodimer

OverviewNCBI Gene

This gene encodes an enzyme that catalyzes the hydrolysis of sulfate esters by oxidizing a cysteine residue in the substrate sulfatase to an active site 3-oxoalanine residue, which is also known as C-alpha-formylglycine. Mutations in this gene cause multiple sulfatase deficiency, a lysosomal storage disorder. Alternative splicing results in multiple transcript variants. [provided by RefSeq, Sep 2009]

Canonical amino-acid sequenceUniProt

374 residues, UniProt reviewed canonical sequence.

>Q8NBK3|SUMF1
     1  MAAPALGLVC GRCPELGLVL LLLLLSLLCG AAGSQEAGTG AGAGSLAGSC GCGTPQRPGA
    61  HGSSAAAHRY SREANAPGPV PGERQLAHSK MVPIPAGVFT MGTDDPQIKQ DGEAPARRVT
   121  IDAFYMDAYE VSNTEFEKFV NSTGYLTEAE KFGDSFVFEG MLSEQVKTNI QQAVAAAPWW
   181  LPVKGANWRH PEGPDSTILH RPDHPVLHVS WNDAVAYCTW AGKRLPTEAE WEYSCRGGLH
   241  NRLFPWGNKL QPKGQHYANI WQGEFPVTNT GEDGFQGTAP VDAFPPNGYG LYNIVGNAWE
   301  WTSDWWTVHH SVEETLNPKG PPSGKDRVKK GGSYMCHRSY CYRYRCAARS QNTPDSSASN
   361  LGFRCAADRL PTMD

LocalizationUniProt · AlphaFold · HPA

Whether an antibody against SUMF1 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
44 nTPM

Expression across tissuesHPA

Tissue

  • parathyroid gland: 44 nTPM
  • kidney: 37 nTPM
  • rectum: 28 nTPM
  • esophagus: 28 nTPM
  • breast: 27 nTPM
  • choroid plexus: 27 nTPM

Single-cell type

  • gonadotrophs: 656 nCPM
  • myonuclei: 479 nCPM
  • renal connecting tubule cells: 455 nCPM
  • distal convoluted tubule cells: 435 nCPM
  • renal collecting duct intercalated cells: 421 nCPM
  • proximal tubule cells: 419 nCPM

Immune cell

  • classical monocyte: 101 nTPM
  • total PBMC: 90 nTPM
  • myeloid DC: 87 nTPM
  • intermediate monocyte: 82 nTPM
  • non-classical monocyte: 79 nTPM
  • basophil: 66 nTPM

Brain region

  • choroid plexus: 23 nTPM
  • thalamus: 18 nTPM
  • white matter: 18 nTPM
  • medulla oblongata: 16 nTPM
  • hypothalamus: 16 nTPM
  • basal ganglia: 15 nTPM

DiseaseUniProt · ClinVar · IEDB · PubMed

Four sources answering four different questions about SUMF1.

Disease | AllUniProt

Conditions SUMF1 is implicated in, by any mechanism.

Disease | GeneticClinVar

134 pathogenic / likely-pathogenic of 825 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)
1.07
gnomAD pLI
0
gnomAD missense Z
-0.5
DepMap mean gene effect
0.04
DepMap dependency class
none

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 SUMF1 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 SUMF1 as an antibody target. Whether an autoantibody or antibody against SUMF1 could matter depends on whether native SUMF1 is physically reachable, whether the body needs it intact, and whether it acts in a disease-relevant tissue.

SUMF1 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 SUMF1 as an autoantigen. Seroatlas presents hypothesis context only and does not manufacture a known-serology claim.

Canonical record: https://seroatlas.com/gene/SUMF1. 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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