Seroatlas · Human Serome Atlas

SUN5

SUN domain-containing protein 5

Also known as: dJ726C3.1, SPAG4L, SUN5_HUMAN, TSARG4

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

Protein identityUniProt · HPA

UniProt accession
Q8TC36
Gene
SUN5
Ensembl
ENSG00000167098
Chromosome
20
Canonical length
379 aa
Protein class
Disease related genes, Human disease related genes, Predicted intracellular proteins, Predicted membrane proteins
Quaternary structure
Homotrimer

OverviewNCBI Gene

The protein encoded by this gene appears to play a role in the meiotic stage of spermatogenesis. The encoded protein localizes to the junction between the sperm head and body and may be involved in nuclear envelope reconstitution and nuclear migration. Mutations in this gene have been implicated in acephalic spermatozoa syndrome. [provided by RefSeq, May 2017]

Canonical amino-acid sequenceUniProt

379 residues, UniProt reviewed canonical sequence.

>Q8TC36|SUN5
     1  MPRSSRSPGD PGALLEDVAH NPRPRRIAQR GRNTSRMAED TSPNMNDNIL LPVRNNDQAL
    61  GLTQCMLGCV SWFTCFACSL RTQAQQVLFN TCRCKLLCQK LMEKTGILLL CAFGFWMFSI
   121  HLPSKMKVWQ DDSINGPLQS LRLYQEKVRH HSGEIQDLRG SMNQLIAKLQ EMEAMSDEQK
   181  MAQKIMKMIH GDYIEKPDFA LKSIGASIDF EHTSVTYNHE KAHSYWNWIQ LWNYAQPPDV
   241  ILEPNVTPGN CWAFEGDRGQ VTIQLAQKVY LSNLTLQHIP KTISLSGSLD TAPKDFVIYG
   301  MEGSPKEEVF LGAFQFQPEN IIQMFPLQNQ PARAFSAVKV KISSNWGNPG FTCLYRVRVH
   361  GSVAPPREQP HQNPYPKRD

LocalizationUniProt · AlphaFold · HPA

Whether an antibody against SUN5 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
1
Mean surface accessibility (rSASA)
0.45
Highest tissue expression
43 nTPM

Expression across tissuesHPA

Tissue

  • testis: 43 nTPM
  • adipose tissue: 0 nTPM
  • adrenal gland: 0 nTPM
  • amygdala: 0 nTPM
  • appendix: 0 nTPM
  • basal ganglia: 0 nTPM

Single-cell type

  • early spermatids: 780 nCPM
  • late primary spermatocytes: 191 nCPM
  • late spermatids: 75 nCPM
  • sertoli cells: 3.7 nCPM
  • leydig cells: 1.4 nCPM
  • retinal amacrine cells: 1.1 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

  • amygdala: 0 nTPM
  • basal ganglia: 0 nTPM
  • cerebellum: 0 nTPM
  • cerebral cortex: 0 nTPM
  • choroid plexus: 0 nTPM
  • hippocampal formation: 0 nTPM

DiseaseUniProt · ClinVar · IEDB · PubMed

Four sources answering four different questions about SUN5.

Disease | AllUniProt

Conditions SUN5 is implicated in, by any mechanism.

Disease | GeneticClinVar

8 pathogenic / likely-pathogenic of 69 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)
1.25
gnomAD pLI
0
gnomAD missense Z
0.69
DepMap mean gene effect
-0.16
DepMap dependency class
selective

Cancer expressionTCGA

Across TCGA tumor cohorts, this protein is over-expressed in roughly 1% 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 SUN5 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 SUN5 as an antibody target. Whether an autoantibody or antibody against SUN5 could matter depends on whether native SUN5 is physically reachable, whether the body needs it intact, and whether it acts in a disease-relevant tissue.

SUN5 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 SUN5 as an autoantigen. Seroatlas presents hypothesis context only and does not manufacture a known-serology claim.

Canonical record: https://seroatlas.com/gene/SUN5. 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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