Seroatlas · Human Serome Atlas

ZDHHC19

Palmitoyltransferase ZDHHC19

Also known as: MGC33345, ZDH19_HUMAN

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

Protein identityUniProt · HPA

UniProt accession
Q8WVZ1
Gene
ZDHHC19
Ensembl
ENSG00000163958
Chromosome
3
Canonical length
309 aa
Protein class
Enzymes, Metabolic proteins, Predicted membrane proteins

OverviewNCBI Gene

Enables protein-cysteine S-palmitoyltransferase activity. Involved in peptidyl-L-cysteine S-palmitoylation and positive regulation of aggrephagy. Located in Golgi membrane; endoplasmic reticulum; and perinucleolar compartment. [provided by Alliance of Genome Resources, Jul 2025]

Canonical amino-acid sequenceUniProt

309 residues, UniProt reviewed canonical sequence.

>Q8WVZ1|ZDHHC19
     1  MTLLTDATPL VKEPHPLPLV PRPWFLPSLF AAFNVVLLVF FSGLFFAFPC RWLAQNGEWA
    61  FPVITGSLFV LTFFSLVSLN FSDPGILHQG SAEQGPLTVH VVWVNHGAFR LQWCPKCCFH
   121  RPPRTYHCPW CNICVEDFDH HCKWVNNCIG HRNFRFFMLL VLSLCLYSGA MLVTCLIFLV
   181  RTTHLPFSTD KAIAIVVAVS AAGLLVPLSL LLLIQALSVS SADRTYKGKC RHLQGYNPFD
   241  QGCASNWYLT ICAPLGPKYM AEAVQLQRVV GPDWTSMPNL HPPMSPSALN PPAPTSGSLQ
   301  SREGTPGAW

LocalizationUniProt · AlphaFold · HPA

Whether an antibody against ZDHHC19 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
Cell surface
Secreted
No
Transmembrane segments
4
Mean surface accessibility (rSASA)
0.38
Highest tissue expression
47 nTPM

Expression across tissuesHPA

Tissue

  • testis: 47 nTPM
  • spleen: 1.5 nTPM
  • adrenal gland: 0.7 nTPM
  • liver: 0.5 nTPM
  • appendix: 0.3 nTPM
  • lung: 0.3 nTPM

Single-cell type

  • late spermatids: 1,491 nCPM
  • early spermatids: 482 nCPM
  • neutrophils: 226 nCPM
  • late primary spermatocytes: 152 nCPM
  • peritubular myoid cells: 62 nCPM
  • adrenal cortex cells: 53 nCPM

Immune cell

  • memory B-cell: 2.5 nTPM
  • naive B-cell: 2.4 nTPM
  • neutrophil: 1.5 nTPM
  • eosinophil: 1.2 nTPM
  • basophil: 0 nTPM
  • classical monocyte: 0 nTPM

Brain region

  • hippocampal formation: 0.5 nTPM
  • hypothalamus: 0.5 nTPM
  • cerebral cortex: 0.3 nTPM
  • medulla oblongata: 0.3 nTPM
  • amygdala: 0.2 nTPM
  • midbrain: 0.2 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)
0.8
gnomAD pLI
0.01
gnomAD missense Z
1.17
DepMap mean gene effect
-0.04
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 ZDHHC19 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 ZDHHC19 as an antibody target. Whether an autoantibody or antibody against ZDHHC19 could matter depends on whether native ZDHHC19 is physically reachable, whether the body needs it intact, and whether it acts in a disease-relevant tissue.

ZDHHC19 is annotated at the cell surface, where native ZDHHC19 is exposed to circulating antibodies and is a prime autoantibody target that could block, deplete, or overstimulate it.

Annotation status

The present source text does not explicitly label ZDHHC19 as an autoantigen. Seroatlas presents hypothesis context only and does not manufacture a known-serology claim.

Canonical record: https://seroatlas.com/gene/ZDHHC19. 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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