MIDN
Midnolin
Also known as: MIDN_HUMAN, Stx
Cross-references: UniProt · Ensembl · Human Protein Atlas · GeneCards · NCBI Gene
Protein identityUniProt · HPA
- UniProt accession
- Q504T8
- Gene
- MIDN
- Ensembl
- ENSG00000167470
- Chromosome
- 19
- Canonical length
- 468 aa
- Protein class
- Predicted intracellular proteins
- Subcellular location
- Nucleoplasm
OverviewNCBI Gene
Enables molecular adaptor activity. Involved in proteasomal ubiquitin-independent protein catabolic process. Located in cytoplasm and nucleus. [provided by Alliance of Genome Resources, Jul 2025]
Canonical amino-acid sequenceUniProt
468 residues, UniProt reviewed canonical sequence.
>Q504T8|MIDN
1 MEPQPGGARS CRRGAPGGAC ELGPAAEAAP MSLAIHSTTG TRYDLAVPPD ETVEGLRKRL
61 SQRLKVPKER LALLHKDTRL SSGKLQEFGV GDGSKLTLVP TVEAGLMSQA SRPEQSVMQA
121 LESLTETQVS DFLSGRSPLT LALRVGDHMM FVQLQLAAQH APLQHRHVLA AAAAAAAARG
181 DPSIASPVSS PCRPVSSAAR VPPVPTSPSP ASPSPITAGS FRSHAASTTC PEQMDCSPTA
241 SSSASPGAST TSTPGASPAP RSRKPGAVIE SFVNHAPGVF SGTFSGTLHP NCQDSSGRPR
301 RDIGTILQIL NDLLSATRHY QGMPPSLAQL RCHAQCSPAS PAPDLAPRTT SCEKLTAAPS
361 ASLLQGQSQI RMCKPPGDRL RQTENRATRC KVERLQLLLQ QKRLRRKARR DARGPYHWSP
421 SRKAGRSDSS SSGGGGSPSE ASGLGLDFED SVWKPEVNPD IKSEFVVALocalizationUniProt · AlphaFold · HPA
Whether an antibody against MIDN 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)
- 0.56
- Highest tissue expression
- 86 nTPM
Expression across tissuesHPA
Tissue
- skeletal muscle: 86 nTPM
- bone marrow: 73 nTPM
- esophagus: 66 nTPM
- pituitary gland: 57 nTPM
- skin: 51 nTPM
- heart muscle: 47 nTPM
Single-cell type
- esophageal apical cells: 773 nCPM
- neutrophils: 749 nCPM
- epididymal basal cells: 421 nCPM
- esophageal suprabasal cells: 384 nCPM
- breast secretory cells: 373 nCPM
- prostatic club cells: 373 nCPM
Immune cell
- neutrophil: 12 nTPM
- basophil: 1.6 nTPM
- NK-cell: 1.2 nTPM
- eosinophil: 1.1 nTPM
- non-classical monocyte: 1.1 nTPM
- classical monocyte: 1 nTPM
Brain region
- medulla oblongata: 90 nTPM
- thalamus: 68 nTPM
- hypothalamus: 65 nTPM
- cerebral cortex: 63 nTPM
- pons: 62 nTPM
- midbrain: 62 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)
- 0.61
- gnomAD pLI
- 0.18
- gnomAD missense Z
- 0.42
- DepMap mean gene effect
- -0.15
- 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
- negative regulation of glucokinase activity
- negative regulation of insulin secretion
- proteasomal ubiquitin-independent protein catabolic process
Molecular functions
Cellular components
Protein domainsUniProt · Pfam · InterPro
KeywordsUniProt
InteractionsUniProt · HPA
Protein binding partners of MIDN 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 MIDN as an antibody target. Whether an autoantibody or antibody against MIDN could matter depends on whether native MIDN is physically reachable, whether the body needs it intact, and whether it acts in a disease-relevant tissue.
MIDN 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 MIDN as an autoantigen. Seroatlas presents hypothesis context only and does not manufacture a known-serology claim.
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