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VPS53 (Vacuolar protein sorting-associated protein 53 homolog) is a gene. In the public catalogues the evidence so far is association rather than a proven role. Tied to Prostate cancer. This dossier gathers the 0 products (0 approved), 0 trials, 0 pathways and 0 resistance routes in the corpus that involve it, with external identifiers so it can be joined to UniProt, ChEMBL, Open Targets and the rest of biology.

Biology

Acts as a component of the GARP complex that is involved in retrograde transport from early and late endosomes to the trans-Golgi network (TGN). The GARP complex is required for the maintenance of the cycling of mannose 6-phosphate receptors between the TGN and endosomes, this cycling is necessary for proper lysosomal sorting of acid hydrolases such as CTSD. Acts as a component of the EARP complex that is involved in endocytic recycling. The EARP complex associates with Rab4-positive endosomes and promotes recycling of internalised transferrin receptor (TFRC) to the plasma membrane. Location: Golgi apparatus, trans-Golgi network membrane; Endosome membrane; Recycling endosome (UniProt). Locus 17p13.3 (HGNC).

Where it is found
  • Prostate cancer: Open Targets association 0.53 with prostate cancer (MONDO_0008315)
Class: other · Gene: VPS53 · Facts checked 2026-09-23 · Target page

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Query for this target: (TITLE:"VPS53" OR ABSTRACT:"VPS53" OR TITLE:"VPS53 subunit of GARP complex" OR ABSTRACT:"VPS53 subunit of GARP complex" OR TITLE:"Vacuolar protein sorting-associated protein 53 homolog" OR ABSTRACT:"Vacuolar protein sorting-associated protein 53 homolog" OR TITLE:"FLJ10979" OR ABSTRACT:"FLJ10979" OR TITLE:"HCCS1" OR ABSTRACT:"HCCS1") AND (cancer OR tumor OR tumour OR oncology OR carcinoma OR lymphoma OR leukemia OR leukaemia OR myeloma OR sarcoma OR melanoma OR glioma). Results are unfiltered search hits about VPS53, not a curated reading list.

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The dossier as machine-readable JSON: identifiers from HGNC, Ensembl, UniProt and ChEMBL, products with status, trials, pathways, hotspots, open questions and assays. The full entity record is in the open API at /api/v1/entities/vps53.json. Licence CC BY-NC 4.0.