Seroatlas · Human Serome Atlas

ZDHHC22

Palmitoyltransferase ZDHHC22

Also known as: C14orf59, ZDH22_HUMAN

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

Protein identityUniProt · HPA

UniProt accession
Q8N966
Gene
ZDHHC22
Ensembl
ENSG00000177108
Chromosome
14
Canonical length
263 aa
Protein class
Enzymes, Metabolic proteins, Predicted intracellular proteins, Predicted membrane proteins
Subcellular location
Plasma membrane

OverviewNCBI Gene

Predicted to enable protein-cysteine S-palmitoyltransferase activity. Involved in protein localization to plasma membrane and protein palmitoylation. Located in Golgi apparatus; endoplasmic reticulum; and plasma membrane. [provided by Alliance of Genome Resources, Jul 2025]

Canonical amino-acid sequenceUniProt

263 residues, UniProt reviewed canonical sequence.

>Q8N966|ZDHHC22
     1  MLALRLLNVV APAYFLCISL VTFVLQLFLF LPSMREDPAA ARLFSPALLH GALFLFLSAN
    61  ALGNYVLVIQ NSPDDLGACQ GASARKTPCP SPSTHFCRVC ARVTLRHDHH CFFTGNCIGS
   121  RNMRNFVLFC LYTSLACLYS MVAGVAYISA VLSISFAHPL AFLTLLPTSI SQFFSGAVLG
   181  SEMFVILMLY LWFAIGLACA GFCCHQLLLI LRGQTRHQVR KGVAVRARPW RKNLQEVFGK
   241  RWLLGLLVPM FNVGSESSKQ QDK

LocalizationUniProt · AlphaFold · HPA

Whether an antibody against ZDHHC22 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
4
Mean surface accessibility (rSASA)
0.32
Highest tissue expression
35 nTPM

Expression across tissuesHPA

Tissue

  • cerebral cortex: 35 nTPM
  • hypothalamus: 24 nTPM
  • hippocampal formation: 20 nTPM
  • amygdala: 16 nTPM
  • midbrain: 15 nTPM
  • cerebellum: 12 nTPM

Single-cell type

  • oligodendrocyte progenitor cells: 42 nCPM
  • other brain neurons: 18 nCPM
  • retinal bipolar cells: 15 nCPM
  • brain excitatory neurons: 13 nCPM
  • retinal amacrine cells: 11 nCPM
  • brain inhibitory neurons: 9.7 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

  • thalamus: 177 nTPM
  • cerebral cortex: 138 nTPM
  • cerebellum: 122 nTPM
  • midbrain: 106 nTPM
  • basal ganglia: 99 nTPM
  • hippocampal formation: 98 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)
1.05
gnomAD pLI
0.05
gnomAD missense Z
1.14
DepMap mean gene effect
-0.05
DepMap dependency class
selective

Cancer expressionTCGA

Across TCGA tumor cohorts, this protein is over-expressed in roughly 3% 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 ZDHHC22 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 ZDHHC22 as an antibody target. Whether an autoantibody or antibody against ZDHHC22 could matter depends on whether native ZDHHC22 is physically reachable, whether the body needs it intact, and whether it acts in a disease-relevant tissue.

ZDHHC22 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 ZDHHC22 as an autoantigen. Seroatlas presents hypothesis context only and does not manufacture a known-serology claim.

Canonical record: https://seroatlas.com/gene/ZDHHC22. 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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