ZGLP1
GATA-type zinc finger protein 1
Also known as: GATAD3, GLP-1, GLP1, ZGLP1_HUMAN
Cross-references: UniProt · Ensembl · Human Protein Atlas · GeneCards · NCBI Gene
Protein identityUniProt · HPA
- UniProt accession
- P0C6A0
- Gene
- ZGLP1
- Ensembl
- ENSG00000220201
- Chromosome
- 19
- Canonical length
- 273 aa
- Protein class
- Predicted intracellular proteins, Transcription factors
- Subcellular location
- Nucleoplasm,Vesicles
OverviewNCBI Gene
ZGLP1 encodes an evolutionary conserved transcriptional regulator with GATA-like zinc fingers. In females, it is expressed in embryonic germ cells and is essential for oogenic fate determination. It acts downstream of bone morphogenetic protein (BMP) and is involved in the regulation of genes involved in RNA processing, transcription and chromatin modification, retrotransposon regulation, meiotic cell cycle, and oocyte development. In males it is not required for the germ cell sex determination but is required by the spermatogonia for efficiently completing the meiotic prophase. [provided by RefSeq, Jul 2022]
Canonical amino-acid sequenceUniProt
273 residues, UniProt reviewed canonical sequence.
>P0C6A0|ZGLP1
1 MEAEPIPDSS MPAKLLAPPC LNLERLGGSP SQEKPRTPGC CRISERSLWP ACQESVTALC
61 FLQETVERLG QSPAQDTPVL GPCWDPMALG TQGRLLLDRD SKDTQTRISQ KGRRLQPPGT
121 PSAPPQRRPR KQLNPCRGTE RVDPGFEGVT LKFQIKPDSS LQIIPTYSLP CSSRSQESPA
181 DAVGGPAAHP GGTEAHSAGS EALEPRRCAS CRTQRTPLWR DAEDGTPLCN ACGIRYKKYG
241 TRCSSCWLVP RKNVQPKRLC GRCGVSLDPI QEGLocalizationUniProt · AlphaFold · HPA
Whether an antibody against ZGLP1 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)
- 0.62
- Highest tissue expression
- 13 nTPM
Expression across tissuesHPA
Tissue
- cerebellum: 13 nTPM
- basal ganglia: 10 nTPM
- cerebral cortex: 9.8 nTPM
- thyroid gland: 9 nTPM
- pituitary gland: 8.3 nTPM
- kidney: 7.8 nTPM
Single-cell type
- megakaryocytes: 50 nCPM
- platelets: 27 nCPM
- differentiating spermatogonia: 19 nCPM
- kupffer cells: 18 nCPM
- undifferentiated spermatogonia: 16 nCPM
- monocytes: 9.2 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
- cerebral cortex: 7.9 nTPM
- hippocampal formation: 5.8 nTPM
- basal ganglia: 5.2 nTPM
- white matter: 4.8 nTPM
- amygdala: 4.5 nTPM
- cerebellum: 4.2 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)
- 0.69
- gnomAD pLI
- 0.39
- gnomAD missense Z
- 1.25
- DepMap mean gene effect
- 0.03
- DepMap dependency class
- selective
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
- negative regulation of transcription by RNA polymerase II
- oocyte development
- positive regulation of transcription by RNA polymerase II
- regulation of transcription by RNA polymerase II
- spermatogenesis
Molecular functions
- DNA-binding transcription factor activity, RNA polymerase II-specific
- sequence-specific DNA binding
- zinc ion binding
Cellular components
Protein domainsUniProt · Pfam · InterPro
- Zinc finger, GATA-type
- Zinc finger, NHR/GATA-type
- GATA zinc finger
- GATA-type Zinc Finger Regulator
KeywordsUniProt
Antibody and autoantibody relevanceSeroatlas analysis
Seroatlas reads ZGLP1 as an antibody target. Whether an autoantibody or antibody against ZGLP1 could matter depends on whether native ZGLP1 is physically reachable, whether the body needs it intact, and whether it acts in a disease-relevant tissue.
ZGLP1 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 ZGLP1 as an autoantigen. Seroatlas presents hypothesis context only and does not manufacture a known-serology claim.
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