Seroatlas · Human Serome Atlas

SYCE2

Synaptonemal complex central element protein 2

Also known as: CESC1, SYCE2_HUMAN

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

Protein identityUniProt · HPA

UniProt accession
Q6PIF2
Gene
SYCE2
Ensembl
ENSG00000161860
Chromosome
19
Canonical length
218 aa
Protein class
Metabolic proteins, Predicted intracellular proteins
Subcellular location
Nucleoplasm
Quaternary structure
Homodimer

OverviewNCBI Gene

The protein encoded by this gene is part of the synaptonemal complex formed between homologous chromosomes during meiotic prophase. The encoded protein associates with SYCP1 and SYCE1 and is found only where chromosome cores are synapsed. [provided by RefSeq, Dec 2012]

Canonical amino-acid sequenceUniProt

218 residues, UniProt reviewed canonical sequence.

>Q6PIF2|SYCE2
     1  MERQGVDVPH VKCKDQEPQP LGESKEHPRW EENCEEEAGG GPASASCQLT VLEGKSGLYF
    61  SSLDSSIDIL QKRAQELIEN INKSRQKDHA LMTNFRNSLK TKVSDLTEKL EERIYQIYND
   121  HNKIIQEKLQ EFTQKMAKIS HLETELKQVC HSVETVYKDL CLQPEQSLRL RWGPDHSRGK
   181  SPPRPGNSQP PDVFVSSVAE TTSQATASEV QTNRDGEC

LocalizationUniProt · AlphaFold · HPA

Whether an antibody against SYCE2 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)
0.6
Highest tissue expression
25 nTPM

Expression across tissuesHPA

Tissue

  • testis: 25 nTPM
  • bone marrow: 3.1 nTPM
  • cerebellum: 2.5 nTPM
  • liver: 1.7 nTPM
  • thymus: 1.7 nTPM
  • cerebral cortex: 1.3 nTPM

Single-cell type

  • early primary spermatocytes: 417 nCPM
  • late primary spermatocytes: 118 nCPM
  • differentiating spermatogonia: 61 nCPM
  • cardiomyocytes: 25 nCPM
  • epicardial cells: 25 nCPM
  • early spermatids: 24 nCPM

Immune cell

  • NK-cell: 2.7 nTPM
  • eosinophil: 0.7 nTPM
  • memory CD4 T-cell: 0.2 nTPM
  • T-reg: 0.2 nTPM
  • gdT-cell: 0.1 nTPM
  • myeloid DC: 0.1 nTPM

Brain region

  • white matter: 4.3 nTPM
  • cerebellum: 4.1 nTPM
  • cerebral cortex: 3.1 nTPM
  • basal ganglia: 2.7 nTPM
  • pons: 2.7 nTPM
  • medulla oblongata: 2.5 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)
0.63
gnomAD pLI
0.28
gnomAD missense Z
0.93
DepMap mean gene effect
-0.01
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

Cellular components

Protein domainsUniProt · Pfam · InterPro

  • Synaptonemal complex central element protein 2

KeywordsUniProt

InteractionsUniProt · HPA

Protein binding partners of SYCE2 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 SYCE2 as an antibody target. Whether an autoantibody or antibody against SYCE2 could matter depends on whether native SYCE2 is physically reachable, whether the body needs it intact, and whether it acts in a disease-relevant tissue.

SYCE2 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 SYCE2 as an autoantigen. Seroatlas presents hypothesis context only and does not manufacture a known-serology claim.

Canonical record: https://seroatlas.com/gene/SYCE2. 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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