Seroatlas · Human Serome Atlas

HIGD2A

HIG1 domain family member 2A, mitochondrial

Also known as: HIG2A_HUMAN, MGC2198, RCF1B

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

Protein identityUniProt · HPA

UniProt accession
Q9BW72
Gene
HIGD2A
Ensembl
ENSG00000146066
Chromosome
5
Canonical length
106 aa
Protein class
Metabolic proteins, Predicted membrane proteins, Transporters
Subcellular location
Mitochondria,Cytosol

OverviewNCBI Gene

The protein encoded by this gene is a subunit of the cytochrome c oxidase complex (complex IV), which is the terminal enzyme in the mitochondrial respiratory chain. The encoded protein is an inner mitochondrial membrane protein and is a functional ortholog of the yeast respiratory supercomplex factor 1 (Rcf1). In mouse, the orthologous protein enhances cell survival under conditions of hypoxia. [provided by RefSeq, Sep 2016]

Canonical amino-acid sequenceUniProt

106 residues, UniProt reviewed canonical sequence.

>Q9BW72|HIGD2A
     1  MATPGPVIPE VPFEPSKPPV IEGLSPTVYR NPESFKEKFV RKTRENPVVP IGCLATAAAL
    61  TYGLYSFHRG NSQRSQLMMR TRIAAQGFTV AAILLGLAVT AMKSRP

LocalizationUniProt · AlphaFold · HPA

Whether an antibody against HIGD2A 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)
0.58
Highest tissue expression
424 nTPM

Expression across tissuesHPA

Tissue

  • skeletal muscle: 424 nTPM
  • heart muscle: 311 nTPM
  • tongue: 278 nTPM
  • choroid plexus: 267 nTPM
  • kidney: 199 nTPM
  • colon: 196 nTPM

Single-cell type

  • parietal cells: 104 nCPM
  • gastric chief cells: 58 nCPM
  • mucous neck cells: 44 nCPM
  • suprabasal keratinocytes: 33 nCPM
  • endometrial secretory cells: 33 nCPM
  • basal keratinocytes: 30 nCPM

Immune cell

  • non-classical monocyte: 1,031 nTPM
  • intermediate monocyte: 978 nTPM
  • total PBMC: 972 nTPM
  • myeloid DC: 932 nTPM
  • classical monocyte: 746 nTPM
  • T-reg: 624 nTPM

Brain region

  • choroid plexus: 148 nTPM
  • thalamus: 110 nTPM
  • cerebellum: 104 nTPM
  • spinal cord: 102 nTPM
  • hypothalamus: 101 nTPM
  • basal ganglia: 100 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)
1.57
gnomAD pLI
0.19
gnomAD missense Z
0.4
DepMap mean gene effect
-0.37
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 HIGD2A as an antibody target. Whether an autoantibody or antibody against HIGD2A could matter depends on whether native HIGD2A is physically reachable, whether the body needs it intact, and whether it acts in a disease-relevant tissue.

HIGD2A 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 HIGD2A as an autoantigen. Seroatlas presents hypothesis context only and does not manufacture a known-serology claim.

Canonical record: https://seroatlas.com/gene/HIGD2A. 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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