Seroatlas · Human Serome Atlas

CLPX

ATP-dependent clpX-like chaperone, mitochondrial

Also known as: CLPX_HUMAN

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

Protein identityUniProt · HPA

UniProt accession
O76031
Gene
CLPX
Ensembl
ENSG00000166855
Chromosome
15
Canonical length
633 aa
Protein class
Disease related genes, Human disease related genes, Predicted intracellular proteins
Subcellular location
Nucleoplasm,Mitochondria,Cytosol,Equatorial segment,Perinuclear theca
Quaternary structure
Homohexamer

OverviewNCBI Gene

The protein encoded by this gene is part of a protease found in mitochondria. This protease is ATP-dependent and targets specific proteins for degradation. The protease consists of two heptameric rings of the CLPP catalytic subunit sandwiched between two hexameric rings of the chaperone subunit encoded by this gene. Targeted proteins are unwound by this protein and then passed on to the CLPP subunit for degradation. Two transcript variants, one protein-coding and the other non-protein coding, have been found for this gene. [provided by RefSeq, Nov 2015]

Canonical amino-acid sequenceUniProt

633 residues, UniProt reviewed canonical sequence.

>O76031|CLPX
     1  MPSCGACTCG AAAVRLITSS LASAQRGISG GRIHMSVLGR LGTFETQILQ RAPLRSFTET
    61  PAYFASKDGI SKDGSGDGNK KSASEGSSKK SGSGNSGKGG NQLRCPKCGD LCTHVETFVS
   121  STRFVKCEKC HHFFVVLSEA DSKKSIIKEP ESAAEAVKLA FQQKPPPPPK KIYNYLDKYV
   181  VGQSFAKKVL SVAVYNHYKR IYNNIPANLR QQAEVEKQTS LTPRELEIRR REDEYRFTKL
   241  LQIAGISPHG NALGASMQQQ VNQQIPQEKR GGEVLDSSHD DIKLEKSNIL LLGPTGSGKT
   301  LLAQTLAKCL DVPFAICDCT TLTQAGYVGE DIESVIAKLL QDANYNVEKA QQGIVFLDEV
   361  DKIGSVPGIH QLRDVGGEGV QQGLLKLLEG TIVNVPEKNS RKLRGETVQV DTTNILFVAS
   421  GAFNGLDRII SRRKNEKYLG FGTPSNLGKG RRAAAAADLA NRSGESNTHQ DIEEKDRLLR
   481  HVEARDLIEF GMIPEFVGRL PVVVPLHSLD EKTLVQILTE PRNAVIPQYQ ALFSMDKCEL
   541  NVTEDALKAI ARLALERKTG ARGLRSIMEK LLLEPMFEVP NSDIVCVEVD KEVVEGKKEP
   601  GYIRAPTKES SEEEYDSGVE EEGWPRQADA ANS

LocalizationUniProt · AlphaFold · HPA

Whether an antibody against CLPX 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)
0.45
Highest tissue expression
31 nTPM

Expression across tissuesHPA

Tissue

  • liver: 31 nTPM
  • skeletal muscle: 25 nTPM
  • tongue: 22 nTPM
  • skin: 14 nTPM
  • heart muscle: 13 nTPM
  • esophagus: 13 nTPM

Single-cell type

  • late spermatids: 424 nCPM
  • esophageal apical cells: 219 nCPM
  • hepatocytes: 133 nCPM
  • syncytiotrophoblasts: 132 nCPM
  • early spermatids: 123 nCPM
  • thymic myoid cells: 95 nCPM

Immune cell

  • eosinophil: 6.4 nTPM
  • neutrophil: 6.2 nTPM
  • plasmacytoid DC: 5.8 nTPM
  • naive CD4 T-cell: 4.9 nTPM
  • NK-cell: 4.7 nTPM
  • memory B-cell: 4.3 nTPM

Brain region

  • medulla oblongata: 20 nTPM
  • white matter: 20 nTPM
  • basal ganglia: 19 nTPM
  • cerebellum: 19 nTPM
  • cerebral cortex: 19 nTPM
  • amygdala: 19 nTPM

DiseaseUniProt · ClinVar · IEDB · PubMed

Four sources answering four different questions about CLPX.

Disease | AllUniProt

Conditions CLPX is implicated in, by any mechanism.

Disease | GeneticClinVar

1 pathogenic / likely-pathogenic of 166 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)
0.34
gnomAD pLI
0.92
gnomAD missense Z
1.81
DepMap mean gene effect
-0.24
DepMap dependency class
selective

Cancer expressionTCGA

Across TCGA tumor cohorts, this protein is over-expressed in roughly 4% 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

InteractionsUniProt · HPA

Protein binding partners of CLPX in the human serome: UniProt-annotated complex subunits plus reported interactors. Each links to its own Seroatlas record.

Antibody and autoantibody relevanceSeroatlas analysis

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

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

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