Seroatlas · Human Serome Atlas

TSPY1

Testis-specific Y-encoded protein 1

Also known as: CT78, TSPY, TSPY1_HUMAN

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

Protein identityUniProt · HPA

UniProt accession
Q01534
Gene
TSPY1
Ensembl
ENSG00000258992
Chromosome
Y
Canonical length
308 aa
Protein class
Disease related genes, Predicted intracellular proteins
Subcellular location
Cytosol

OverviewNCBI Gene

The protein encoded by this gene is found only in testicular tissue and may be involved in spermatogenesis. Many functional paralogs and pseudogenes of this gene are present in a cluster in humans, but only a single, nonfunctional orthologous gene is found in mouse. Alternative splicing results in multiple transcript variants. [provided by RefSeq, Mar 2016]

Canonical amino-acid sequenceUniProt

308 residues, UniProt reviewed canonical sequence.

>Q01534|TSPY1
     1  MRPEGSLTYR VPERLRQGFC GVGRAAQALV CASAKEGTAF RMEAVQEGAA GVESEQAALG
    61  EEAVLLLDDI MAEVEVVAEE EGLVERREEA QRAQQAVPGP GPMTPESAPE ELLAVQVELE
   121  PVNAQARKAF SRQREKMERR RKPHLDRRGA VIQSVPGFWA NVIANHPQMS ALITDEDEDM
   181  LSYMVSLEVG EEKHPVHLCK IMLFFRSNPY FQNKVITKEY LVNITEYRAS HSTPIEWYPD
   241  YEVEAYRRRH HNSSLNFFNW FSDHNFAGSN KIAEILCKDL WRNPLQYYKR MKPPEEGTET
   301  SGDSQLLS

LocalizationUniProt · AlphaFold · HPA

Whether an antibody against TSPY1 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)
0.44
Highest tissue expression
7.1 nTPM

Expression across tissuesHPA

Tissue

  • testis: 7.1 nTPM
  • adipose tissue: 0 nTPM
  • adrenal gland: 0 nTPM
  • amygdala: 0 nTPM
  • appendix: 0 nTPM
  • basal ganglia: 0 nTPM

Single-cell type

  • differentiating spermatogonia: 0.4 nCPM
  • early primary spermatocytes: 0.3 nCPM
  • undifferentiated spermatogonia: 0.1 nCPM
  • adipocytes: 0 nCPM
  • adrenal cortex cells: 0 nCPM
  • adrenal medulla cells: 0 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

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)
1.87
gnomAD pLI
0.31
gnomAD missense Z
0.1

OntologyGO

Biological processes

Molecular functions

Cellular components

Protein domainsUniProt · Pfam · InterPro

KeywordsUniProt

Antibody and autoantibody relevanceSeroatlas analysis

Seroatlas reads TSPY1 as an antibody target. Whether an autoantibody or antibody against TSPY1 could matter depends on whether native TSPY1 is physically reachable, whether the body needs it intact, and whether it acts in a disease-relevant tissue.

TSPY1 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 TSPY1 as an autoantigen. Seroatlas presents hypothesis context only and does not manufacture a known-serology claim.

Canonical record: https://seroatlas.com/gene/TSPY1. 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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