Seroatlas · Human Serome Atlas

APOOL

MICOS complex subunit MIC27

Also known as: AAIR8193, CXorf33, FAM121A, Mic27, MIC27_HUMAN, MICOS27, UNQ8193

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

Protein identityUniProt · HPA

UniProt accession
Q6UXV4
Gene
APOOL
Ensembl
ENSG00000155008
Chromosome
X
Canonical length
268 aa
Protein class
Predicted membrane proteins
Subcellular location
Mitochondria

OverviewNCBI Gene

This gene encodes a protein which contains an apolipoprotein O superfamily domain. This domain is found on proteins in circulating lipoprotein complexes. [provided by RefSeq, Sep 2011]

Canonical amino-acid sequenceUniProt

268 residues, UniProt reviewed canonical sequence.

>Q6UXV4|APOOL
     1  MAAIRMGKLT TMPAGLIYAS VSVHAAKQEE SKKQLVKPEQ LPIYTAPPLQ SKYVEEQPGH
    61  LQMGFASIRT ATGCYIGWCK GVYVFVKNGI MDTVQFGKDA YVYLKNPPRD FLPKMGVITV
   121  SGLAGLVSAR KGSKFKKITY PLGLATLGAT VCYPVQSVII AKVTAKKVYA TSQQIFGAVK
   181  SLWTKSSKEE SLPKPKEKTK LGSSSEIEVP AKTTHVLKHS VPLPTELSSE AKTKSESTSG
   241  ATQFMPDPKL MDHGQSHPED IDMYSTRS

LocalizationUniProt · AlphaFold · HPA

Whether an antibody against APOOL 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
2
Mean surface accessibility (rSASA)
0.59
Highest tissue expression
17 nTPM

Expression across tissuesHPA

Tissue

  • skeletal muscle: 17 nTPM
  • tongue: 17 nTPM
  • liver: 14 nTPM
  • parathyroid gland: 11 nTPM
  • heart muscle: 11 nTPM
  • kidney: 10 nTPM

Single-cell type

  • cardiomyocytes: 126 nCPM
  • parietal cells: 115 nCPM
  • megakaryocytes: 80 nCPM
  • esophageal apical cells: 74 nCPM
  • hepatocytes: 70 nCPM
  • myonuclei: 62 nCPM

Immune cell

  • intermediate monocyte: 2.8 nTPM
  • plasmacytoid DC: 2.6 nTPM
  • non-classical monocyte: 2.5 nTPM
  • basophil: 2.3 nTPM
  • memory B-cell: 2.1 nTPM
  • myeloid DC: 2.1 nTPM

Brain region

  • choroid plexus: 21 nTPM
  • cerebral cortex: 20 nTPM
  • pons: 19 nTPM
  • thalamus: 19 nTPM
  • medulla oblongata: 19 nTPM
  • midbrain: 19 nTPM

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
gnomAD pLI
0.02
gnomAD missense Z
0.26
DepMap mean gene effect
-0.16
DepMap dependency class
selective

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

Antibody and autoantibody relevanceSeroatlas analysis

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

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

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