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ZSCAN26

Zinc finger and SCAN domain-containing protein 26

Also known as: SRE-ZBP, ZNF187, ZSC26_HUMAN

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

Protein identityUniProt · HPA

UniProt accession
Q16670
Gene
ZSCAN26
Ensembl
ENSG00000197062
Chromosome
6
Canonical length
478 aa
Protein class
Predicted intracellular proteins, Transcription factors
Subcellular location
Nucleoplasm,Nucleoli

OverviewNCBI Gene

Predicted to enable DNA-binding transcription factor activity, RNA polymerase II-specific and RNA polymerase II cis-regulatory region sequence-specific DNA binding activity. Predicted to be involved in regulation of transcription by RNA polymerase II. Located in cytosol and nucleoplasm. [provided by Alliance of Genome Resources, Jul 2025]

Canonical amino-acid sequenceUniProt

478 residues, UniProt reviewed canonical sequence.

>Q16670|ZSCAN26
     1  MATALVSAHS LAPLNLKKEG LRVVREDHYS TWEQGFKLQG NSKGLGQEPL CKQFRQLRYE
    61  ETTGPREALS RLRELCQQWL QPETHTKEQI LELLVLEQFL IILPKELQAR VQEHHPESRE
   121  DVVVVLEDLQ LDLGETGQQD PDQPKKQKIL VEEMAPLKGV QEQQVRHECE VTKPEKEKGE
   181  ETRIENGKLI VVTDSCGRVE SSGKISEPME AHNEGSNLER HQAKPKEKIE YKCSEREQRF
   241  IQHLDLIEHA STHTGKKLCE SDVCQSSSLT GHKKVLSREK GHQCHECGKA FQRSSHLVRH
   301  QKIHLGEKPY QCNECGKVFS QNAGLLEHLR IHTGEKPYLC IHCGKNFRRS SHLNRHQRIH
   361  SQEEPCECKE CGKTFSQALL LTHHQRIHSH SKSHQCNECG KAFSLTSDLI RHHRIHTGEK
   421  PFKCNICQKA FRLNSHLAQH VRIHNEEKPY QCSECGEAFR QRSGLFQHQR YHHKDKLA

LocalizationUniProt · AlphaFold · HPA

Whether an antibody against ZSCAN26 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)
0.48
Highest tissue expression
25 nTPM

Expression across tissuesHPA

Tissue

  • ovary: 25 nTPM
  • retina: 25 nTPM
  • cerebellum: 25 nTPM
  • cervix: 20 nTPM
  • endometrium: 18 nTPM
  • seminal vesicle: 17 nTPM

Single-cell type

  • medullary thymic epithelial cells: 2.4 nCPM
  • cardiomyocytes: 1.4 nCPM
  • thymic myoid cells: 1.4 nCPM
  • gastric chief cells: 1.1 nCPM
  • sertoli cells: 1.1 nCPM
  • corticotrophs: 1 nCPM

Immune cell

  • NK-cell: 23 nTPM
  • naive B-cell: 20 nTPM
  • naive CD4 T-cell: 19 nTPM
  • MAIT T-cell: 19 nTPM
  • basophil: 18 nTPM
  • memory CD8 T-cell: 18 nTPM

Brain region

  • cerebellum: 42 nTPM
  • white matter: 36 nTPM
  • cerebral cortex: 36 nTPM
  • hypothalamus: 33 nTPM
  • medulla oblongata: 31 nTPM
  • thalamus: 30 nTPM

OntologyGO

Biological processes

Molecular functions

Cellular components

Protein domainsUniProt · Pfam · InterPro

KeywordsUniProt

Antibody and autoantibody relevanceSeroatlas analysis

Seroatlas reads ZSCAN26 as an antibody target. Whether an autoantibody or antibody against ZSCAN26 could matter depends on whether native ZSCAN26 is physically reachable, whether the body needs it intact, and whether it acts in a disease-relevant tissue.

ZSCAN26 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 ZSCAN26 as an autoantigen. Seroatlas presents hypothesis context only and does not manufacture a known-serology claim.

Canonical record: https://seroatlas.com/gene/ZSCAN26. 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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