Seroatlas · Human Serome Atlas

LONP1

Lon protease homolog, mitochondrial

Also known as: hLON, LonHS, LONM_HUMAN, PIM1, PRSS15

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

Protein identityUniProt · HPA

UniProt accession
P36776
Gene
LONP1
Ensembl
ENSG00000196365
Chromosome
19
Canonical length
959 aa
Protein class
Disease related genes, Enzymes, Human disease related genes, Potential drug targets, Predicted intracellular proteins
Subcellular location
Nucleoplasm,Mitochondria
Quaternary structure
Homohexamer

OverviewNCBI Gene

This gene encodes a mitochondrial matrix protein that belongs to the Lon family of ATP-dependent proteases. This protein mediates the selective degradation of misfolded, unassembled or oxidatively damaged polypeptides in the mitochondrial matrix. It may also have a chaperone function in the assembly of inner membrane protein complexes, and participate in the regulation of mitochondrial gene expression and maintenance of the integrity of the mitochondrial genome. Decreased expression of this gene has been noted in a patient with hereditary spastic paraplegia (PMID:18378094). Alternatively spliced transcript variants have been found for this gene. [provided by RefSeq, Feb 2013]

Canonical amino-acid sequenceUniProt

959 residues, UniProt reviewed canonical sequence.

>P36776|LONP1
     1  MAASTGYVRL WGAARCWVLR RPMLAAAGGR VPTAAGAWLL RGQRTCDASP PWALWGRGPA
    61  IGGQWRGFWE ASSRGGGAFS GGEDASEGGA EEGAGGAGGS AGAGEGPVIT ALTPMTIPDV
   121  FPHLPLIAIT RNPVFPRFIK IIEVKNKKLV ELLRRKVRLA QPYVGVFLKR DDSNESDVVE
   181  SLDEIYHTGT FAQIHEMQDL GDKLRMIVMG HRRVHISRQL EVEPEEPEAE NKHKPRRKSK
   241  RGKKEAEDEL SARHPAELAM EPTPELPAEV LMVEVENVVH EDFQVTEEVK ALTAEIVKTI
   301  RDIIALNPLY RESVLQMMQA GQRVVDNPIY LSDMGAALTG AESHELQDVL EETNIPKRLY
   361  KALSLLKKEF ELSKLQQRLG REVEEKIKQT HRKYLLQEQL KIIKKELGLE KDDKDAIEEK
   421  FRERLKELVV PKHVMDVVDE ELSKLGLLDN HSSEFNVTRN YLDWLTSIPW GKYSNENLDL
   481  ARAQAVLEED HYGMEDVKKR ILEFIAVSQL RGSTQGKILC FYGPPGVGKT SIARSIARAL
   541  NREYFRFSVG GMTDVAEIKG HRRTYVGAMP GKIIQCLKKT KTENPLILID EVDKIGRGYQ
   601  GDPSSALLEL LDPEQNANFL DHYLDVPVDL SKVLFICTAN VTDTIPEPLR DRMEMINVSG
   661  YVAQEKLAIA ERYLVPQARA LCGLDESKAK LSSDVLTLLI KQYCRESGVR NLQKQVEKVL
   721  RKSAYKIVSG EAESVEVTPE NLQDFVGKPV FTVERMYDVT PPGVVMGLAW TAMGGSTLFV
   781  ETSLRRPQDK DAKGDKDGSL EVTGQLGEVM KESARIAYTF ARAFLMQHAP ANDYLVTSHI
   841  HLHVPEGATP KDGPSAGCTI VTALLSLAMG RPVRQNLAMT GEVSLTGKIL PVGGIKEKTI
   901  AAKRAGVTCI VLPAENKKDF YDLAAFITEG LEVHFVEHYR EIFDIAFPDE QAEALAVER

LocalizationUniProt · AlphaFold · HPA

Whether an antibody against LONP1 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)
0.35
Highest tissue expression
190 nTPM

Expression across tissuesHPA

Tissue

  • adrenal gland: 190 nTPM
  • liver: 76 nTPM
  • heart muscle: 72 nTPM
  • skeletal muscle: 65 nTPM
  • choroid plexus: 62 nTPM
  • basal ganglia: 46 nTPM

Single-cell type

  • epicardial cells: 118 nCPM
  • adrenal cortex cells: 85 nCPM
  • oocytes: 83 nCPM
  • hepatocytes: 59 nCPM
  • alveolar cells type 2: 53 nCPM
  • syncytiotrophoblasts: 49 nCPM

Immune cell

  • basophil: 4.6 nTPM
  • memory B-cell: 4 nTPM
  • plasmacytoid DC: 3.9 nTPM
  • naive CD4 T-cell: 3.8 nTPM
  • intermediate monocyte: 3.7 nTPM
  • naive B-cell: 3.7 nTPM

Brain region

  • choroid plexus: 67 nTPM
  • thalamus: 62 nTPM
  • pons: 62 nTPM
  • medulla oblongata: 59 nTPM
  • cerebral cortex: 59 nTPM
  • hypothalamus: 58 nTPM

DiseaseUniProt · ClinVar · IEDB · PubMed

Four sources answering four different questions about LONP1.

Disease | AllUniProt

Conditions LONP1 is implicated in, by any mechanism.

Disease | GeneticClinVar

25 pathogenic / likely-pathogenic of 1,169 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)
0.24
gnomAD pLI
1
gnomAD missense Z
0.43
DepMap mean gene effect
-1.38
DepMap dependency class
common

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

Molecular functions

Cellular components

Protein domainsUniProt · Pfam · InterPro

KeywordsUniProt

InteractionsUniProt · HPA

Protein binding partners of LONP1 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 LONP1 as an antibody target. Whether an autoantibody or antibody against LONP1 could matter depends on whether native LONP1 is physically reachable, whether the body needs it intact, and whether it acts in a disease-relevant tissue.

LONP1 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 LONP1 as an autoantigen. Seroatlas presents hypothesis context only and does not manufacture a known-serology claim.

Canonical record: https://seroatlas.com/gene/LONP1. 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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