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COX4I2

Cytochrome c oxidase subunit 4 isoform 2, mitochondrial

Also known as: COX4-2, COX42_HUMAN, COX4B, COX4L2, COXIV-2, dJ857M17.2

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

Protein identityUniProt · HPA

UniProt accession
Q96KJ9
Gene
COX4I2
Ensembl
ENSG00000131055
Chromosome
20
Canonical length
171 aa
Protein class
Disease related genes, Human disease related genes, Metabolic proteins, Potential drug targets, Predicted membrane proteins, Transporters

OverviewNCBI Gene

Cytochrome c oxidase (COX), the terminal enzyme of the mitochondrial respiratory chain, catalyzes the electron transfer from reduced cytochrome c to oxygen. It is a heteromeric complex consisting of 3 catalytic subunits encoded by mitochondrial genes and multiple structural subunits encoded by nuclear genes. The mitochondrially-encoded subunits function in electron transfer, and the nuclear-encoded subunits may be involved in the regulation and assembly of the complex. This nuclear gene encodes isoform 2 of subunit IV. Isoform 1 of subunit IV is encoded by a different gene, however, the two genes show a similar structural organization. Subunit IV is the largest nuclear encoded subunit which plays a pivotal role in COX regulation. [provided by RefSeq, Jul 2008]

Canonical amino-acid sequenceUniProt

171 residues, UniProt reviewed canonical sequence.

>Q96KJ9|COX4I2
     1  MLPRAAWSLV LRKGGGGRRG MHSSEGTTRG GGKMSPYTNC YAQRYYPMPE EPFCTELNAE
    61  EQALKEKEKG SWTQLTHAEK VALYRLQFNE TFAEMNRRSN EWKTVMGCVF FFIGFAALVI
   121  WWQRVYVFPP KPITLTDERK AQQLQRMLDM KVNPVQGLAS RWDYEKKQWK K

LocalizationUniProt · AlphaFold · HPA

Whether an antibody against COX4I2 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
1
Mean surface accessibility (rSASA)
0.51
Highest tissue expression
108 nTPM

Expression across tissuesHPA

Tissue

  • placenta: 108 nTPM
  • lung: 49 nTPM
  • heart muscle: 42 nTPM
  • adipose tissue: 19 nTPM
  • tongue: 18 nTPM
  • breast: 16 nTPM

Single-cell type

  • pericytes: 329 nCPM
  • vascular smooth muscle cells: 149 nCPM
  • oocytes: 65 nCPM
  • vascular endothelial cells: 5.9 nCPM
  • leydig cells: 3.6 nCPM
  • mesothelial cells: 3.2 nCPM

Immune cell

  • naive B-cell: 0.4 nTPM
  • basophil: 0 nTPM
  • classical monocyte: 0 nTPM
  • eosinophil: 0 nTPM
  • gdT-cell: 0 nTPM
  • intermediate monocyte: 0 nTPM

Brain region

  • cerebral cortex: 2.7 nTPM
  • midbrain: 2.3 nTPM
  • pons: 2.3 nTPM
  • thalamus: 2.3 nTPM
  • medulla oblongata: 2 nTPM
  • hypothalamus: 1.8 nTPM

DiseaseUniProt · ClinVar · IEDB · PubMed

Four sources answering four different questions about COX4I2.

Disease | AllUniProt

Conditions COX4I2 is implicated in, by any mechanism.

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)
1.34
gnomAD pLI
0
gnomAD missense Z
-0.07
DepMap mean gene effect
-0.07
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

Cellular components

Protein domainsUniProt · Pfam · InterPro

KeywordsUniProt

Antibody and autoantibody relevanceSeroatlas analysis

Seroatlas reads COX4I2 as an antibody target. Whether an autoantibody or antibody against COX4I2 could matter depends on whether native COX4I2 is physically reachable, whether the body needs it intact, and whether it acts in a disease-relevant tissue.

COX4I2 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 COX4I2 as an autoantigen. Seroatlas presents hypothesis context only and does not manufacture a known-serology claim.

Canonical record: https://seroatlas.com/gene/COX4I2. 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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