Seroatlas · Human Serome Atlas

MTPAP

Poly(A) RNA polymerase, mitochondrial

Also known as: FLJ10486, PAPD1, PAPD1_HUMAN, SPAX4, TENT6

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

Protein identityUniProt · HPA

UniProt accession
Q9NVV4
Gene
MTPAP
Ensembl
ENSG00000107951
Chromosome
10
Canonical length
582 aa
Protein class
Disease related genes, Enzymes, Human disease related genes, Metabolic proteins, Potential drug targets, Predicted intracellular proteins
Subcellular location
Nucleoplasm,Vesicles,Mitochondria
Quaternary structure
Homodimer

OverviewNCBI Gene

The protein encoded by this gene is a member of the DNA polymerase type-B-like family. This enzyme synthesizes the 3' poly(A) tail of mitochondrial transcripts and plays a role in replication-dependent histone mRNA degradation.[provided by RefSeq, Jan 2011]

Canonical amino-acid sequenceUniProt

582 residues, UniProt reviewed canonical sequence.

>Q9NVV4|MTPAP
     1  MAVPGVGLLT RLNLCARRRT RVQRPIVRLL SCPGTVAKDL RRDEQPSGSV ETGFEDKIPK
    61  RRFSEMQNER REQAQRTVLI HCPEKISENK FLKYLSQFGP INNHFFYESF GLYAVVEFCQ
   121  KESIGSLQNG THTPSTAMET AIPFRSRFFN LKLKNQTSER SRVRSSNQLP RSNKQLFELL
   181  CYAESIDDQL NTLLKEFQLT EENTKLRYLT CSLIEDMAAA YFPDCIVRPF GSSVNTFGKL
   241  GCDLDMFLDL DETRNLSAHK ISGNFLMEFQ VKNVPSERIA TQKILSVLGE CLDHFGPGCV
   301  GVQKILNARC PLVRFSHQAS GFQCDLTTNN RIALTSSELL YIYGALDSRV RALVFSVRCW
   361  ARAHSLTSSI PGAWITNFSL TMMVIFFLQR RSPPILPTLD SLKTLADAED KCVIEGNNCT
   421  FVRDLSRIKP SQNTETLELL LKEFFEYFGN FAFDKNSINI RQGREQNKPD SSPLYIQNPF
   481  ETSLNISKNV SQSQLQKFVD LARESAWILQ QEDTDRPSIS SNRPWGLVSL LLPSAPNRKS
   541  FTKKKSNKFA IETVKNLLES LKGNRTENFT KTSGKRTIST QT

LocalizationUniProt · AlphaFold · HPA

Whether an antibody against MTPAP 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)
0.34
Highest tissue expression
35 nTPM

Expression across tissuesHPA

Tissue

  • bone marrow: 35 nTPM
  • skeletal muscle: 12 nTPM
  • tongue: 11 nTPM
  • rectum: 10 nTPM
  • duodenum: 10 nTPM
  • liver: 9.9 nTPM

Single-cell type

  • early spermatids: 195 nCPM
  • late primary spermatocytes: 108 nCPM
  • erythrocyte progenitors: 46 nCPM
  • myonuclei: 41 nCPM
  • retinal horizontal cells: 40 nCPM
  • gastric progenitor cells: 40 nCPM

Immune cell

  • intermediate monocyte: 35 nTPM
  • myeloid DC: 33 nTPM
  • non-classical monocyte: 28 nTPM
  • basophil: 28 nTPM
  • eosinophil: 27 nTPM
  • classical monocyte: 25 nTPM

Brain region

  • cerebellum: 43 nTPM
  • cerebral cortex: 31 nTPM
  • white matter: 30 nTPM
  • basal ganglia: 27 nTPM
  • hypothalamus: 26 nTPM
  • pons: 25 nTPM

DiseaseUniProt · ClinVar · IEDB · PubMed

Four sources answering four different questions about MTPAP.

Disease | AllUniProt

Conditions MTPAP is implicated in, by any mechanism.

Disease | GeneticClinVar

3 pathogenic / likely-pathogenic of 439 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)
0.19
gnomAD pLI
1
gnomAD missense Z
0.95
DepMap mean gene effect
-0.57
DepMap dependency class
common

Cancer expressionTCGA

Across TCGA tumor cohorts, this protein is over-expressed in roughly 7% 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 MTPAP 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 MTPAP as an antibody target. Whether an autoantibody or antibody against MTPAP could matter depends on whether native MTPAP is physically reachable, whether the body needs it intact, and whether it acts in a disease-relevant tissue.

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

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