Seroatlas · Human Serome Atlas

ZPBP

Zona pellucida-binding protein 1

Also known as: SP38, ZPBP1, ZPBP1_HUMAN

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

Protein identityUniProt · HPA

UniProt accession
Q9BS86
Gene
ZPBP
Ensembl
ENSG00000042813
Chromosome
7
Canonical length
351 aa
Protein class
Disease related genes, Human disease related genes, Predicted intracellular proteins, Predicted secreted proteins
Secretome location
Secreted in male reproductive system

OverviewNCBI Gene

ZPBP is one of several proteins that are thought to participate in secondary binding between acrosome-reacted sperm and the egg-specific extracellular matrix, the zona pellucida (McLeskey et al., 1998 [PubMed 9378618]).[supplied by OMIM, Aug 2008]

Canonical amino-acid sequenceUniProt

351 residues, UniProt reviewed canonical sequence.

>Q9BS86|ZPBP
     1  MEAFALGPAR RGRRRTRAAG SLLSRAAILL FISAFLVRVP SSVGHLVRLP RAFRLTKDSV
    61  KIVGSTSFPV KAYVMLHQKS PHVLCVTQQL RNAELIDPSF QWYGPKGKVV SVENRTAQIT
   121  STGSLVFQNF EESMSGIYTC FLEYKPTVEE IVKRLQLKYA IYAYREPHYY YQFTARYHAA
   181  PCNSIYNISF EKKLLQILSK LLLDLSCEIS LLKSECHRVK MQRAGLQNEL FFAFSVSSLD
   241  TEKGPKRCTD HNCEPYKRLF KAKNLIERFF NQQVEILGRR AEQLPQIYYI EGTLQMVWIN
   301  RCFPGYGMNV QQHPKCPECC VICSPGSYNP RDGIHCLQCN SSLVYGAKTC L

LocalizationUniProt · AlphaFold · HPA

Whether an antibody against ZPBP 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
Secreted
Secreted
Yes
Transmembrane segments
0
Mean surface accessibility (rSASA)
0.37
Highest tissue expression
134 nTPM

Expression across tissuesHPA

Tissue

  • testis: 134 nTPM
  • retina: 4.2 nTPM
  • epididymis: 0.7 nTPM
  • fallopian tube: 0.3 nTPM
  • thyroid gland: 0.3 nTPM
  • kidney: 0.2 nTPM

Single-cell type

  • late primary spermatocytes: 1,734 nCPM
  • cardiomyocytes: 979 nCPM
  • early spermatids: 927 nCPM
  • retinal bipolar cells: 795 nCPM
  • rod photoreceptor cells: 656 nCPM
  • early primary spermatocytes: 296 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

  • cerebellum: 0.4 nTPM
  • amygdala: 0.3 nTPM
  • cerebral cortex: 0.3 nTPM
  • hypothalamus: 0.3 nTPM
  • midbrain: 0.3 nTPM
  • thalamus: 0.3 nTPM

DiseaseUniProt · ClinVar · IEDB · PubMed

Four sources answering four different questions about ZPBP.

Disease | AllUniProt

Conditions ZPBP is implicated in, by any mechanism.

Disease | GeneticClinVar

1 pathogenic / likely-pathogenic of 62 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)
0.8
gnomAD pLI
0
gnomAD missense Z
0.89
DepMap mean gene effect
0.22
DepMap dependency class
none

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

Cellular components

Protein domainsUniProt · Pfam · InterPro

KeywordsUniProt

InteractionsUniProt · HPA

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

ZPBP is annotated as secreted, so native ZPBP circulates and is directly accessible to antibodies. Secreted and cell-surface proteins are the autoantibody targets most likely to act like drugs, blocking or depleting the native protein.

Annotation status

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

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