Seroatlas · Human Serome Atlas

IMUP

Immortalization up-regulated protein

Also known as: C19orf33, H2RSP, IMUP_HUMAN, IMUP-1, IMUP-2

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

Protein identityUniProt · HPA

UniProt accession
Q9GZP8
Gene
IMUP
Ensembl
ENSG00000167644
Chromosome
19
Canonical length
106 aa
Protein class
Predicted intracellular proteins
Subcellular location
Nucleoplasm,Plasma membrane,Cytosol

OverviewNCBI Gene

The protein encoded by this gene has been shown to be upregulated in SV40-immortalized fibroblasts as well as in endometrial carcinoma cells. The encoded protein is found primarily in the nucleus. This protein may play a role in placental development and diseases such as pre-eclampsia. Two transcript variants encoding different isoforms have been found for this gene. [provided by RefSeq, Dec 2015]

Canonical amino-acid sequenceUniProt

106 residues, UniProt reviewed canonical sequence.

>Q9GZP8|IMUP
     1  MEFDLGAALE PTSQKPGVGA GHGGDPKLSP HKVQGRSEAG AGPGPKQGHH SSSDSSSSSS
    61  DSDTDVKSHA AGSKQHESIP GKAKKPKVKK KEKGKKEKGK KKEAPH

LocalizationUniProt · AlphaFold · HPA

Whether an antibody against IMUP 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)
0.74
Highest tissue expression
689 nTPM

Expression across tissuesHPA

Tissue

  • esophagus: 689 nTPM
  • skin: 441 nTPM
  • vagina: 294 nTPM
  • cervix: 223 nTPM
  • colon: 198 nTPM
  • small intestine: 178 nTPM

Single-cell type

  • colonocytes: 2,468 nCPM
  • esophageal apical cells: 2,363 nCPM
  • enterocytes: 1,592 nCPM
  • esophageal suprabasal cells: 878 nCPM
  • goblet cells: 851 nCPM
  • foveolar cells: 752 nCPM

Immune cell

  • myeloid DC: 22 nTPM
  • total PBMC: 18 nTPM
  • eosinophil: 2.3 nTPM
  • basophil: 2.1 nTPM
  • plasmacytoid DC: 1.8 nTPM
  • naive B-cell: 1.4 nTPM

Brain region

  • thalamus: 4 nTPM
  • pons: 3.3 nTPM
  • medulla oblongata: 2.6 nTPM
  • basal ganglia: 2.5 nTPM
  • midbrain: 2.4 nTPM
  • cerebellum: 2.2 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)
0.75
gnomAD pLI
0.7
DepMap mean gene effect
0.08
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

Cellular components

Protein domainsUniProt · Pfam · InterPro

  • Immortalization up-regulated protein
  • Immortalisation up-regulated protein

KeywordsUniProt

Antibody and autoantibody relevanceSeroatlas analysis

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

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

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