GOLGA7

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Also known as GCP16HSPC041GOLGA3AP1GOLGA7A

Summary

GOLGA7 (golgin A7, HGNC:24876) is a protein-coding gene on chromosome 8p11.21, encoding Golgin subfamily A member 7 (Q7Z5G4). May be involved in protein transport from Golgi to cell surface.

Involved in Golgi to plasma membrane protein transport; peptidyl-L-cysteine S-palmitoylation; and protein stabilization. Acts upstream of or within Golgi to plasma membrane transport. Located in Golgi membrane and Golgi stack. Part of palmitoyltransferase complex.

Source: NCBI Gene 51125 — RefSeq curated summary.

At a glance

  • GWAS associations: 1
  • Clinical variants (ClinVar): 17 total
  • MANE Select transcript: NM_001002296

Identifiers

Gene identifiers

FieldValue
HGNC IDHGNC:24876
Approved symbolGOLGA7
Namegolgin A7
Location8p11.21
Locus typegene with protein product
StatusApproved
AliasesGCP16, HSPC041, GOLGA3AP1, GOLGA7A
Ensembl geneENSG00000147533
Ensembl biotypeprotein_coding
OMIM609453
Entrez51125

Gene structure

Transcript identifiers

Ensembl transcripts: 34 — 24 protein_coding, 5 retained_intron, 3 protein_coding_CDS_not_defined, 2 nonsense_mediated_decay

ENST00000357743, ENST00000405786, ENST00000518270, ENST00000520817, ENST00000521417, ENST00000523128, ENST00000523420, ENST00000687203, ENST00000688142, ENST00000694863, ENST00000694865, ENST00000694872, ENST00000694873, ENST00000694874, ENST00000694875, ENST00000694876, ENST00000694877, ENST00000694878, ENST00000694879, ENST00000694883, ENST00000694884, ENST00000694885, ENST00000694886, ENST00000694887, ENST00000694888, ENST00000694889, ENST00000694890, ENST00000694908, ENST00000694909, ENST00000694910, ENST00000694911, ENST00000694913, ENST00000694915, ENST00000694916

RefSeq mRNA: 5 — MANE Select: NM_001002296 NM_001002296, NM_001174124, NM_001362979, NM_001362980, NM_016099

CCDS: CCDS34887, CCDS55226

Canonical transcript exons

ENST00000357743 — 5 exons

ExonStartEnd
ENSE000015270134149058241490965
ENSE000020930744150958441510980
ENSE000035684744150705941507121
ENSE000036378334149750941497661
ENSE000036697534150591141506012

Expression profiles

Bgee: expression breadth ubiquitous, 288 present calls, max score 98.39.

FANTOM5 (CAGE): breadth ubiquitous, TPM avg 50.5155 / max 366.5055, expressed in 1824 samples.

FANTOM5 promoters (7 alternative TSS)

Promoter IDTPM avgSamples expressed
8863946.35221822
886371.7217852
886401.3183831
886410.5073153
886420.417472
886380.164753
2051670.033823

Top tissues by expression

288 total, by Bgee expression score (0-100, higher = more expressed):

TissueAnatomy IDExpression scoreQuality
inferior vagus X ganglionUBERON:000536398.39gold quality
corpus callosumUBERON:000233698.09gold quality
superior vestibular nucleusUBERON:000722797.92gold quality
spinal cordUBERON:000224097.75gold quality
cranial nerve IIUBERON:000094197.70gold quality
C1 segment of cervical spinal cordUBERON:000646997.70gold quality
subthalamic nucleusUBERON:000190697.69gold quality
medulla oblongataUBERON:000189697.66gold quality
ventral tegmental areaUBERON:000269197.63gold quality
upper leg skinUBERON:000426297.56gold quality
secondary oocyteCL:000065597.32gold quality
dorsal plus ventral thalamusUBERON:000189797.30gold quality
midbrainUBERON:000189197.29gold quality
substantia nigraUBERON:000203897.24gold quality
skin of hipUBERON:000155497.16gold quality
ponsUBERON:000098897.13gold quality
amygdalaUBERON:000187696.98gold quality
ventricular zoneUBERON:000305396.95gold quality
putamenUBERON:000187496.88gold quality
globus pallidusUBERON:000187596.80gold quality
substantia nigra pars reticulataUBERON:000196696.80gold quality
olfactory bulbUBERON:000226496.79gold quality
lateral globus pallidusUBERON:000247696.64gold quality
Brodmann (1909) area 46UBERON:000648396.63gold quality
medial globus pallidusUBERON:000247796.62gold quality
ganglionic eminenceUBERON:000402396.59gold quality
endothelial cellCL:000011596.54gold quality
Ammon’s hornUBERON:000195496.51gold quality
parietal lobeUBERON:000187296.29gold quality
caudate nucleusUBERON:000187396.26gold quality

Single-cell (SCXA)

Detected in 2 experiment(s), a significant marker in 1.

ExperimentMarker?Max mean expression
E-MTAB-8060no494.61
E-ANND-3no0.00

Regulation

Is transcription factor: no

miRNA regulators (miRDB)

105 targeting GOLGA7, top 30 by miRDB confidence (max_score; target_count = how many genes the miRNA targets in total — lower means more specific):

miRNAMax scoreAvg scoremiRNA target_count
HSA-MIR-7110-3P100.0073.182486
HSA-MIR-200B-3P100.0073.312693
HSA-MIR-200C-3P100.0073.352685
HSA-MIR-429100.0073.442698
HSA-MIR-4262100.0073.263931
HSA-MIR-150-5P99.9966.691976
HSA-MIR-453199.9969.703181
HSA-MIR-25-3P99.9874.601817
HSA-MIR-363-3P99.9874.721821
HSA-MIR-367-3P99.9874.831819
HSA-MIR-32-5P99.9875.211964
HSA-MIR-92A-3P99.9875.211960
HSA-MIR-92B-3P99.9875.251955
HSA-LET-7F-2-3P99.9870.982588
HSA-MIR-1185-1-3P99.9871.042593
HSA-MIR-1185-2-3P99.9871.042593
HSA-MIR-365899.9673.874379
HSA-MIR-568899.9673.234504
HSA-MIR-495-3P99.9672.814197
HSA-MIR-545-3P99.9570.742783
HSA-MIR-55999.9572.283609
HSA-MIR-6845-3P99.9466.881439
HSA-MIR-144-3P99.9473.982698
HSA-MIR-548A-5P99.9471.273482
HSA-MIR-218-5P99.9372.222103
HSA-MIR-314399.9371.963104
HSA-MIR-515-5P99.9269.822343
HSA-MIR-519E-5P99.9269.622358
HSA-MIR-205-3P99.9269.923165
HSA-MIR-311999.9271.342390

Literature-anchored findings (GeneRIF, showing 3)

  • results indicate that GCP16 is the acylated membrane protein, associated with GCP170, and possibly involved in vesicular transport from the Golgi to the cell surface (PMID:14522980)
  • Data show that H- and N-Ras are palmitoylated by a human protein palmitoyltransferase encoded by the ZDHHC9 and GCP16 genes. (PMID:16000296)
  • The interactions of ZDHHC5/GOLGA7 with SARS-CoV-2 spike (S) protein and their effects on S protein’s subcellular localization, palmitoylation and pseudovirus entry. (PMID:34961524)

Cross-species orthologs

5 orthologs

OrganismSymbolGene ID
danio_reriogolga7ENSDARG00000057676
mus_musculusGolga7ENSMUSG00000015341
rattus_norvegicusGolga7ENSRNOG00000017956
drosophila_melanogasterCG5447FBGN0039427
caenorhabditis_elegansWBGENE00013323

Paralogs (1): GOLGA7B (ENSG00000155265)

Protein

Protein identifiers

Golgin subfamily A member 7Q7Z5G4 (reviewed: Q7Z5G4)

Alternative names: Golgi complex-associated protein of 16 kDa

All UniProt accessions (7): Q7Z5G4, A0A8I5KQW6, A0A8I5KXE5, A0A8Q3SHJ7, A0A8Q3WKQ1, A0A8Q3WLM5, A0A8Q3WLN5

UniProt curated annotations — full annotation on UniProt →

Function. May be involved in protein transport from Golgi to cell surface. The ZDHHC9-GOLGA7 complex is a palmitoyltransferase specific for HRAS and NRAS.

Subunit / interactions. Interacts with GOLGA3. Interacts with ZDHHC9.

Subcellular location. Golgi apparatus membrane.

Tissue specificity. Expressed in all tissues except colon and thymus.

Post-translational modifications. Palmitoylated on Cys-69 and Cys-72; which is required for Golgi localization and interaction with GOLGA3.

Similarity. Belongs to the ERF4 family.

Isoforms (2)

UniProt IDNamesCanonical?
Q7Z5G4-11yes
Q7Z5G4-32

RefSeq proteins (5): NP_001002296, NP_001167595, NP_001349908, NP_001349909, NP_057183 (=MANE)

Domains & families (InterPro)

IDNameType
IPR019383Golgin_A_7/ERF4Domain
IPR051371Ras_palmitoyltransferaseFamily

Pfam: PF10256

UniProt features (19 total): turn 4, helix 4, mutagenesis site 4, lipid moiety-binding region 2, strand 2, chain 1, splice variant 1, sequence conflict 1

Structure

Experimental structures (PDB)

2 structures.

PDBMethodResolution (Å)
8HF3ELECTRON MICROSCOPY3.4
9OA6ELECTRON MICROSCOPY3.9

Predicted structure (AlphaFold)

ModelpLDDTFraction very-high
AF-Q7Z5G4-F189.240.67

Functional residue map

Curated UniProt residues grouped by drug-discovery relevance — catalytic, ligand-binding, modification, and mutation-validated positions. Source: UniProtKB sequence features.

Post-translational modifications (2): 69, 72

Mutagenesis-validated functional residues (4):

PositionPhenotype
24slightly reduces palmitoylation.
69strongly reduces palmitoylation. abolishes palmitoylation and golgi localization; when associated with a-72.
72strongly reduces palmitoylation. abolishes palmitoylation and golgi localization; when associated with a-69.
81slightly reduces palmitoylation.

Function

Pathways and Gene Ontology

Reactome pathways

3 pathways

IDPathway
R-HSA-6798695Neutrophil degranulation
R-HSA-9648002RAS processing
R-HSA-9694548Maturation of spike protein

MSigDB gene sets: 229 (showing top): GCM_MAP4K4, REACTOME_INNATE_IMMUNE_SYSTEM, RODRIGUES_THYROID_CARCINOMA_POORLY_DIFFERENTIATED_UP, GOBP_LIPOPROTEIN_METABOLIC_PROCESS, GOCC_SECRETORY_GRANULE, AAGCCAT_MIR135A_MIR135B, GOBP_PROTEIN_TARGETING, SHAFFER_IRF4_TARGETS_IN_ACTIVATED_B_LYMPHOCYTE, GOBP_VESICLE_MEDIATED_TRANSPORT, GOBP_PEPTIDYL_CYSTEINE_MODIFICATION, CAGCTG_AP4_Q5, GOBP_PROTEIN_LOCALIZATION_TO_CELL_PERIPHERY, GOBP_GOLGI_TO_PLASMA_MEMBRANE_TRANSPORT, GOBP_PROTEIN_TARGETING_TO_MEMBRANE, GOBP_LIPOPROTEIN_BIOSYNTHETIC_PROCESS

GO Biological Process (6): protein targeting to membrane (GO:0006612), Golgi to plasma membrane transport (GO:0006893), Golgi to plasma membrane protein transport (GO:0043001), post-translational protein modification (GO:0043687), peptidyl-L-cysteine S-palmitoylation (GO:0018230), protein stabilization (GO:0050821)

GO Molecular Function (1): protein binding (GO:0005515)

GO Cellular Component (8): Golgi membrane (GO:0000139), palmitoyltransferase complex (GO:0002178), extracellular region (GO:0005576), Golgi stack (GO:0005795), extracellular exosome (GO:0070062), tertiary granule lumen (GO:1904724), Golgi apparatus (GO:0005794), membrane (GO:0016020)

Reactome top-level categories

Rollup of top-3 pathways:

CategoryPathways
Innate Immune System1
RAF/MAP kinase cascade1
Translation of Structural Proteins1

GO top-level categories

Rollup of top GO terms by namespace:

CategoryTerms
cellular anatomical structure2
protein targeting1
establishment of protein localization to membrane1
post-Golgi vesicle-mediated transport1
vesicle-mediated transport to the plasma membrane1
Golgi to plasma membrane transport1
protein transport1
establishment of protein localization to plasma membrane1
protein localization to plasma membrane1
protein modification process1
peptidyl-S-diacylglycerol-L-cysteine biosynthetic process from peptidyl-cysteine1
protein palmitoylation1
regulation of protein stability1
binding1
Golgi apparatus1
bounding membrane of organelle1
transferase complex1
Golgi apparatus subcompartment1
extracellular vesicle1
intracellular organelle lumen1
tertiary granule1
cytoplasm1
endomembrane system1
intracellular membrane-bounded organelle1

Protein interactions and networks

STRING

744 interactions, top by confidence (×1000):

Protein AProtein BPartner UniProtScore
GOLGA7ZDHHC9Q9Y397999
GOLGA7ZFP36L2P47974918
GOLGA7GOLGA3Q08378917
GOLGA7ZDHHC5Q9C0B5917
GOLGA7NRASP01111860
GOLGA7HRASP01112635
GOLGA7ZDHHC2Q9UIJ5616
GOLGA7ZDHHC6Q9H6R6610
GOLGA7ZDHHC15Q96MV8545
GOLGA7ZDHHC3Q9NYG2524
GOLGA7ZDHHC8Q9ULC8516
GOLGA7TOGARAM1Q9Y4F4514
GOLGA7TMEM260Q9NX78505
GOLGA7ZDHHC20Q5W0Z9490
GOLGA7ZDHHC16Q969W1490

IntAct

85 interactions, top by confidence:

ABTypeScore
ZDHHC5Spsi-mi:“MI:0914”(association)0.860
SGOLGA7psi-mi:“MI:0914”(association)0.820
GOLGA7Spsi-mi:“MI:0914”(association)0.820
SGOLGA7psi-mi:“MI:0915”(physical association)0.820
GOLGA7Spsi-mi:“MI:0403”(colocalization)0.820
GOLGA7ZDHHC5psi-mi:“MI:0403”(colocalization)0.710
GOLGA7ZDHHC5psi-mi:“MI:0914”(association)0.710
GYPATCAF2psi-mi:“MI:0914”(association)0.640
GYPAGOLGA7psi-mi:“MI:0914”(association)0.640
ACTN2GOLGA7psi-mi:“MI:0915”(physical association)0.560
KCNIP3GOLGA7psi-mi:“MI:0915”(physical association)0.560
GOLGA7MID2psi-mi:“MI:0915”(physical association)0.560
GOLGA7KCNIP2psi-mi:“MI:0915”(physical association)0.560
FAM72DGOLGA7psi-mi:“MI:0915”(physical association)0.560
GOLGA7KCNIP3psi-mi:“MI:0915”(physical association)0.560
NCALDGOLGA7psi-mi:“MI:0915”(physical association)0.560
KCNIP4GOLGA7psi-mi:“MI:0915”(physical association)0.560
MESDGOLGA7psi-mi:“MI:0915”(physical association)0.560
GOLGA7FGFR3psi-mi:“MI:0915”(physical association)0.560
TSPAN3MAP1LC3B2psi-mi:“MI:0914”(association)0.530
HAVCR2TCAF2psi-mi:“MI:0914”(association)0.530

BioGRID (88): GOLGA7 (Affinity Capture-MS), GOLGA7 (Affinity Capture-MS), GOLGA7 (Affinity Capture-MS), GOLGA7 (Two-hybrid), GOLGA7 (Affinity Capture-MS), GOLGA7 (Affinity Capture-MS), GOLGA7 (Affinity Capture-MS), GOLGA7 (Affinity Capture-MS), GOLGA7 (Affinity Capture-MS), GOLGA7 (Affinity Capture-MS), GOLGA7 (Synthetic Lethality), GOLGA7 (Affinity Capture-RNA), GOLGA7 (Affinity Capture-MS), GOLGA3 (Affinity Capture-Western), GOLGA7 (Affinity Capture-RNA)

ESM2 similar proteins: B3M9W1, B3NDM7, B4FF80, B4FUS3, B4GRI8, B4HIJ8, B4J043, B4L0H1, B4LIH0, B4MXW6, B4QLP9, B6TYV8, B6TZ45, D9HP19, D9HP20, D9HP23, D9HP25, D9HP26, D9HP27, P0CW97, P0CW98, Q0VBW2, Q3ZCB2, Q4PIP8, Q5EA55, Q5REK4, Q5ZLC9, Q66I68, Q6AYQ1, Q6C938, Q6DK93, Q6DK99, Q6FLC9, Q6NUC1, Q6PCW6, Q7Z5G4, Q8S8T8, Q91W53, Q95T12, Q9BYD5

Diamond homologs: Q2TAP0, Q5EA55, Q5ZLC9, Q6AYQ1, Q7Z5G4, Q91W53, Q9D428

SIGNOR signaling

3 interactions.

AEffectBMechanism
GOLGA7“up-regulates activity”HRASpalmitoylation
GOLGA7“up-regulates activity”ZDHHC9binding
GOLGA7“up-regulates activity”NRASpalmitoylation

Enriched among interaction partners

Reactome pathways and GO biological processes over-represented among this gene’s 62 IntAct physical interaction partners (hypergeometric vs the genome-wide background, BH-FDR, gene-set size 15–500, ranked by fold). A functional readout of the neighbourhood — distinct from this gene’s own memberships above, and biased toward well-studied / hub proteins, so read it as themes rather than proof.

GO biological processes:

GO termPartnersFoldFDR
protein localization to plasma membrane613.3×3e-03

Disease & clinical

Clinical variants and AI predictions

ClinVar

17 variants total. Per-class counts are floors (≥ shown; pagination cap):

ClassificationCount (floor)
Pathogenic0
Likely pathogenic0
Uncertain significance7
Likely benign0
Benign0

Top pathogenic / likely-pathogenic (0)

SpliceAI

948 predictions. Top by Δscore:

VariantEffectΔscore
8:41497505:A:AGacceptor_gain1.0000
8:41497506:C:Gacceptor_gain1.0000
8:41497507:A:AGacceptor_gain1.0000
8:41497507:AGATT:Aacceptor_gain1.0000
8:41497508:G:GTacceptor_gain1.0000
8:41497508:GA:Gacceptor_gain1.0000
8:41497508:GAT:Gacceptor_gain1.0000
8:41497508:GATT:Gacceptor_gain1.0000
8:41497508:GATTG:Gacceptor_gain1.0000
8:41497657:AGAAG:Adonor_loss1.0000
8:41497659:AAG:Adonor_loss1.0000
8:41497660:AGG:Adonor_loss1.0000
8:41497661:GG:Gdonor_loss1.0000
8:41497662:G:Adonor_loss1.0000
8:41497663:T:Gdonor_loss1.0000
8:41490822:C:CAacceptor_gain0.9900
8:41490831:A:AGacceptor_gain0.9900
8:41490831:AGCGC:Aacceptor_gain0.9900
8:41490832:G:GAacceptor_gain0.9900
8:41490832:GC:Gacceptor_gain0.9900
8:41490832:GCGC:Gacceptor_gain0.9900
8:41490832:GCGCG:Gacceptor_gain0.9900
8:41490963:CGGG:Cdonor_loss0.9900
8:41490964:GG:Gdonor_gain0.9900
8:41490965:GG:Gdonor_gain0.9900
8:41490965:GGTA:Gdonor_loss0.9900
8:41490966:GT:Gdonor_loss0.9900
8:41490967:T:Adonor_loss0.9900
8:41491002:G:GTdonor_gain0.9900
8:41497503:CTACA:Cacceptor_gain0.9900

AlphaMissense

885 scored. Top likely-pathogenic:

VariantProtein changeam_pathogenicity
8:41490891:T:CF13L1.000
8:41490893:C:AF13L1.000
8:41490893:C:GF13L1.000
8:41490930:T:CF26L1.000
8:41490931:T:CF26S1.000
8:41490931:T:GF26C1.000
8:41490932:C:AF26L1.000
8:41490932:C:GF26L1.000
8:41497611:T:CC72R1.000
8:41497618:C:TT74I1.000
8:41497621:C:AA75E1.000
8:41505945:A:CQ100P1.000
8:41505975:T:CL110P1.000
8:41505989:C:TP115S1.000
8:41505990:C:AP115H1.000
8:41505990:C:GP115R1.000
8:41505999:G:CR118P1.000
8:41506001:G:AG119R1.000
8:41506001:G:CG119R1.000
8:41506002:G:AG119E1.000
8:41506002:G:TG119V1.000
8:41506005:T:CL120P1.000
8:41490901:G:CR16P0.999
8:41490901:G:TR16L0.999
8:41490930:T:AF26I0.999
8:41490930:T:GF26V0.999
8:41490955:T:AL34Q0.999
8:41490955:T:CL34P0.999
8:41497525:T:CF43S0.999
8:41497537:T:AV47D0.999

dbSNP variants (sampled 300 via entrez): RS1000054599 (8:41509623 G>A), RS1000133883 (8:41488978 A>G), RS1000144529 (8:41507448 A>G), RS1000425942 (8:41495355 G>A,T), RS1000995524 (8:41504147 CA>C,CAA), RS1001214737 (8:41499127 C>G,T), RS1001273139 (8:41490184 G>A,T), RS1001369653 (8:41506171 A>T), RS1001571372 (8:41497097 ACCGCACCTGG>A), RS1001614546 (8:41509132 A>G), RS1001741610 (8:41491933 G>A,C), RS1001748108 (8:41501578 T>C), RS1002075502 (8:41493569 C>T), RS1002083764 (8:41503323 G>A,C), RS1002107978 (8:41493225 T>C)

Disease associations

OMIM: gene MIM:609453 | disease phenotypes:

GenCC curated gene-disease

Mondo (0):

Orphanet (0):

HPO phenotypes

0 total (0 of 0 shown, HPO-id order):

GWAS associations

1 associations (top):

StudyTraitp-value
GCST009391_1765Metabolite levels6.000000e-06

EFO canonical traits (1, from GWAS)

EFO IDTrait name
EFO:0010370lysophosphatidylethanolamine 20:4 measurement

Drugs & pharmacology

Drug and pharmacology data

Is drug target: no

PharmGKB: 1 entry (VIP=true, CPIC=false)

CTD chemical–gene interactions

20 total (human), top 20 by PubMed support.

ChemicalActions (top 5)PubMed papers
sodium arseniteincreases expression, affects expression2
cobaltous chlorideincreases expression2
Tobacco Smoke Pollutionaffects expression, increases expression2
triphenyl phosphateaffects expression1
bisphenol Aaffects cotreatment, increases expression1
glycidyl methacrylatedecreases expression1
arseniteaffects binding, increases reaction1
zinc chromateincreases abundance, increases expression1
chromium hexavalent ionincreases abundance, increases expression1
Dexamethasoneaffects cotreatment, increases expression1
Doxorubicindecreases expression1
Indomethacinaffects cotreatment, increases expression1
Ivermectindecreases expression1
Rotenoneincreases expression1
Valproic Aciddecreases methylation1
1-Methyl-3-isobutylxanthineaffects cotreatment, increases expression1
Sodium Seleniteincreases expression1
Cadmium Chloridedecreases expression1
Copper Sulfateincreases expression1
Lactic Aciddecreases expression1

Clinical trials (associated diseases)

0 trials via MONDO — disease-level, not drug-specific.

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