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AK2

Adenylate kinase 2, mitochondrial

Also known as: KAD2_HUMAN

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

Protein identityUniProt · HPA

UniProt accession
P54819
Gene
AK2
Ensembl
ENSG00000004455
Chromosome
1
Canonical length
239 aa
Protein class
Disease related genes, Enzymes, Human disease related genes, Metabolic proteins, Plasma proteins, Potential drug targets, Predicted intracellular proteins
Subcellular location
Mitochondria

OverviewNCBI Gene

Adenylate kinases are involved in regulating the adenine nucleotide composition within a cell by catalyzing the reversible transfer of phosphate groups among adenine nucleotides. Three isozymes of adenylate kinase, namely 1, 2, and 3, have been identified in vertebrates; this gene encodes isozyme 2. Expression of these isozymes is tissue-specific and developmentally regulated. Isozyme 2 is localized in the mitochondrial intermembrane space and may play a role in apoptosis. Mutations in this gene are the cause of reticular dysgenesis. Alternate splicing results in multiple transcript variants. Pseudogenes of this gene are found on chromosomes 1 and 2.[provided by RefSeq, Nov 2010]

Canonical amino-acid sequenceUniProt

239 residues, UniProt reviewed canonical sequence.

>P54819|AK2
     1  MAPSVPAAEP EYPKGIRAVL LGPPGAGKGT QAPRLAENFC VCHLATGDML RAMVASGSEL
    61  GKKLKATMDA GKLVSDEMVV ELIEKNLETP LCKNGFLLDG FPRTVRQAEM LDDLMEKRKE
   121  KLDSVIEFSI PDSLLIRRIT GRLIHPKSGR SYHEEFNPPK EPMKDDITGE PLIRRSDDNE
   181  KALKIRLQAY HTQTTPLIEY YRKRGIHSAI DASQTPDVVF ASILAAFSKA TCKDLVMFI

LocalizationUniProt · AlphaFold · HPA

Whether an antibody against AK2 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
Other membrane
Secreted
No
Transmembrane segments
0
Mean surface accessibility (rSASA)
0.29
Highest tissue expression
156 nTPM

Expression across tissuesHPA

Tissue

  • liver: 156 nTPM
  • kidney: 148 nTPM
  • skeletal muscle: 145 nTPM
  • tongue: 128 nTPM
  • duodenum: 116 nTPM
  • parathyroid gland: 115 nTPM

Single-cell type

  • early spermatids: 271 nCPM
  • esophageal suprabasal cells: 267 nCPM
  • syncytiotrophoblasts: 248 nCPM
  • esophageal apical cells: 242 nCPM
  • enterocytes: 231 nCPM
  • migrating cytotrophoblasts: 213 nCPM

Immune cell

  • eosinophil: 166 nTPM
  • plasmacytoid DC: 141 nTPM
  • total PBMC: 139 nTPM
  • myeloid DC: 133 nTPM
  • classical monocyte: 117 nTPM
  • memory B-cell: 108 nTPM

Brain region

  • medulla oblongata: 53 nTPM
  • white matter: 50 nTPM
  • pons: 48 nTPM
  • choroid plexus: 47 nTPM
  • thalamus: 46 nTPM
  • basal ganglia: 46 nTPM

DiseaseUniProt · ClinVar · IEDB · PubMed

Four sources answering four different questions about AK2.

Disease | AllUniProt

Conditions AK2 is implicated in, by any mechanism.

Disease | GeneticClinVar

33 pathogenic / likely-pathogenic of 264 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)
1.22
gnomAD pLI
0
gnomAD missense Z
0.07
DepMap mean gene effect
-0.34
DepMap dependency class
selective

Cancer expressionTCGA

Across TCGA tumor cohorts, this protein is over-expressed in roughly 6% of surveyed tumor types (aggregate summary; per-cohort expression, alteration, and survival load in the interactive view).

OntologyGO

Biological processes

Molecular functions

Cellular components

Protein domainsUniProt · Pfam · InterPro

KeywordsUniProt

Antibody and autoantibody relevanceSeroatlas analysis

Seroatlas reads AK2 as an antibody target. Whether an autoantibody or antibody against AK2 could matter depends on whether native AK2 is physically reachable, whether the body needs it intact, and whether it acts in a disease-relevant tissue.

AK2 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 AK2 as an autoantigen. Seroatlas presents hypothesis context only and does not manufacture a known-serology claim.

Canonical record: https://seroatlas.com/gene/AK2. 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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