Seroatlas · Human Serome Atlas

CMC2

COX assembly mitochondrial protein 2 homolog

Also known as: C16orf61, COXM2_HUMAN, DC13, MGC45036

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

Protein identityUniProt · HPA

UniProt accession
Q9NRP2
Gene
CMC2
Ensembl
ENSG00000103121
Chromosome
16
Canonical length
79 aa
Protein class
Predicted intracellular proteins
Subcellular location
Mitochondria,Cytosol

OverviewNCBI Gene

Located in cytosol and mitochondrion. [provided by Alliance of Genome Resources, Jul 2025]

Canonical amino-acid sequenceUniProt

79 residues, UniProt reviewed canonical sequence.

>Q9NRP2|CMC2
     1  MHPDLSPHLH TEECNVLINL LKECHKNHNI LKFFGYCNDV DRELRKCLKN EYVENRTKSR
    61  EHGIAMRKKL FNPPEESEK

LocalizationUniProt · AlphaFold · HPA

Whether an antibody against CMC2 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)
0.44
Highest tissue expression
78 nTPM

Expression across tissuesHPA

Tissue

  • midbrain: 78 nTPM
  • amygdala: 74 nTPM
  • spinal cord: 73 nTPM
  • cerebral cortex: 72 nTPM
  • basal ganglia: 72 nTPM
  • hippocampal formation: 68 nTPM

Single-cell type

  • late spermatids: 135 nCPM
  • oligodendrocytes: 111 nCPM
  • brain excitatory neurons: 95 nCPM
  • late primary spermatocytes: 93 nCPM
  • parietal cells: 88 nCPM
  • brain inhibitory neurons: 85 nCPM

Immune cell

  • T-reg: 65 nTPM
  • plasmacytoid DC: 45 nTPM
  • NK-cell: 45 nTPM
  • memory B-cell: 39 nTPM
  • eosinophil: 37 nTPM
  • memory CD4 T-cell: 37 nTPM

Brain region

  • white matter: 38 nTPM
  • thalamus: 35 nTPM
  • hypothalamus: 33 nTPM
  • basal ganglia: 30 nTPM
  • cerebral cortex: 30 nTPM
  • cerebellum: 29 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)
1.54
gnomAD pLI
0.2
gnomAD missense Z
-0.65
DepMap mean gene effect
-0.05
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

Cellular components

Protein domainsUniProt · Pfam · InterPro

KeywordsUniProt

Antibody and autoantibody relevanceSeroatlas analysis

Seroatlas reads CMC2 as an antibody target. Whether an autoantibody or antibody against CMC2 could matter depends on whether native CMC2 is physically reachable, whether the body needs it intact, and whether it acts in a disease-relevant tissue.

CMC2 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 CMC2 as an autoantigen. Seroatlas presents hypothesis context only and does not manufacture a known-serology claim.

Canonical record: https://seroatlas.com/gene/CMC2. 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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