Seroatlas · Human Serome Atlas

USP19

Ubiquitin carboxyl-terminal hydrolase 19

Also known as: KIAA0891, UBP19_HUMAN, ZMYND9

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

Protein identityUniProt · HPA

UniProt accession
O94966
Gene
USP19
Ensembl
ENSG00000172046
Chromosome
3
Canonical length
1318 aa
Protein class
Enzymes, Metabolic proteins, Plasma proteins, Predicted intracellular proteins, Predicted membrane proteins

OverviewNCBI Gene

Protein ubiquitination controls many intracellular processes, including cell cycle progression, transcriptional activation, and signal transduction. This dynamic process, involving ubiquitin conjugating enzymes and deubiquitinating enzymes, adds and removes ubiquitin. Deubiquitinating enzymes are cysteine proteases that specifically cleave ubiquitin from ubiquitin-conjugated protein substrates. This protein is a ubiquitin protein ligase and plays a role in muscle wasting. Alternatively spliced transcript variants encoding different isoforms have been found for this gene. [provided by RefSeq, May 2017]

Canonical amino-acid sequenceUniProt

1318 residues, UniProt reviewed canonical sequence.

>O94966|USP19
     1  MSGGASATGP RRGPPGLEDT TSKKKQKDRA NQESKDGDPR KETGSRYVAQ AGLEPLASGD
    61  PSASASHAAG ITGSRHRTRL FFPSSSGSAS TPQEEQTKEG ACEDPHDLLA TPTPELLLDW
   121  RQSAEEVIVK LRVGVGPLQL EDVDAAFTDT DCVVRFAGGQ QWGGVFYAEI KSSCAKVQTR
   181  KGSLLHLTLP KKVPMLTWPS LLVEADEQLC IPPLNSQTCL LGSEENLAPL AGEKAVPPGN
   241  DPVSPAMVRS RNPGKDDCAK EEMAVAADAA TLVDEPESMV NLAFVKNDSY EKGPDSVVVH
   301  VYVKEICRDT SRVLFREQDF TLIFQTRDGN FLRLHPGCGP HTTFRWQVKL RNLIEPEQCT
   361  FCFTASRIDI CLRKRQSQRW GGLEAPAARV GGAKVAVPTG PTPLDSTPPG GAPHPLTGQE
   421  EARAVEKDKS KARSEDTGLD SVATRTPMEH VTPKPETHLA SPKPTCMVPP MPHSPVSGDS
   481  VEEEEEEEKK VCLPGFTGLV NLGNTCFMNS VIQSLSNTRE LRDFFHDRSF EAEINYNNPL
   541  GTGGRLAIGF AVLLRALWKG THHAFQPSKL KAIVASKASQ FTGYAQHDAQ EFMAFLLDGL
   601  HEDLNRIQNK PYTETVDSDG RPDEVVAEEA WQRHKMRNDS FIVDLFQGQY KSKLVCPVCA
   661  KVSITFDPFL YLPVPLPQKQ KVLPVFYFAR EPHSKPIKFL VSVSKENSTA SEVLDSLSQS
   721  VHVKPENLRL AEVIKNRFHR VFLPSHSLDT VSPSDTLLCF ELLSSELAKE RVVVLEVQQR
   781  PQVPSVPISK CAACQRKQQS EDEKLKRCTR CYRVGYCNQL CQKTHWPDHK GLCRPENIGY
   841  PFLVSVPASR LTYARLAQLL EGYARYSVSV FQPPFQPGRM ALESQSPGCT TLLSTGSLEA
   901  GDSERDPIQP PELQLVTPMA EGDTGLPRVW AAPDRGPVPS TSGISSEMLA SGPIEVGSLP
   961  AGERVSRPEA AVPGYQHPSE AMNAHTPQFF IYKIDSSNRE QRLEDKGDTP LELGDDCSLA
  1021  LVWRNNERLQ EFVLVASKEL ECAEDPGSAG EAARAGHFTL DQCLNLFTRP EVLAPEEAWY
  1081  CPQCKQHREA SKQLLLWRLP NVLIVQLKRF SFRSFIWRDK INDLVEFPVR NLDLSKFCIG
  1141  QKEEQLPSYD LYAVINHYGG MIGGHYTACA RLPNDRSSQR SDVGWRLFDD STVTTVDESQ
  1201  VVTRYAYVLF YRRRNSPVER PPRAGHSEHH PDLGPAAEAA ASQASRIWQE LEAEEEPVPE
  1261  GSGPLGPWGP QDWVGPLPRG PTTPDEGCLR YFVLGTVAAL VALVLNVFYP LVSQSRWR

LocalizationUniProt · AlphaFold · HPA

Whether an antibody against USP19 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)
0.42
Highest tissue expression
62 nTPM

Expression across tissuesHPA

Tissue

  • skeletal muscle: 62 nTPM
  • tongue: 36 nTPM
  • parathyroid gland: 24 nTPM
  • salivary gland: 23 nTPM
  • bone marrow: 22 nTPM
  • heart muscle: 22 nTPM

Single-cell type

  • epididymal principal cells: 38 nCPM
  • epididymal efferent duct ciliated cells: 38 nCPM
  • thymic myoid cells: 27 nCPM
  • undifferentiated spermatogonia: 19 nCPM
  • fallopian tube ciliated cells: 19 nCPM
  • adipocytes: 19 nCPM

Immune cell

  • basophil: 8.3 nTPM
  • neutrophil: 5.5 nTPM
  • memory CD8 T-cell: 4.8 nTPM
  • eosinophil: 4.7 nTPM
  • gdT-cell: 4 nTPM
  • myeloid DC: 4 nTPM

Brain region

  • choroid plexus: 39 nTPM
  • medulla oblongata: 32 nTPM
  • basal ganglia: 31 nTPM
  • cerebellum: 31 nTPM
  • white matter: 31 nTPM
  • cerebral cortex: 31 nTPM

DiseaseUniProt · ClinVar · IEDB · PubMed

Four sources answering four different questions about USP19.

Disease | GeneticClinVar

2 pathogenic / likely-pathogenic of 237 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)
0.2
gnomAD pLI
1
gnomAD missense Z
1.99
DepMap mean gene effect
-0.2
DepMap dependency class
selective

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

Cellular components

Protein domainsUniProt · Pfam · InterPro

KeywordsUniProt

InteractionsUniProt · HPA

Protein binding partners of USP19 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 USP19 as an antibody target. Whether an autoantibody or antibody against USP19 could matter depends on whether native USP19 is physically reachable, whether the body needs it intact, and whether it acts in a disease-relevant tissue.

USP19 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 USP19 as an autoantigen. Seroatlas presents hypothesis context only and does not manufacture a known-serology claim.

Canonical record: https://seroatlas.com/gene/USP19. 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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