Seroatlas · Human Serome Atlas

MYL12B

Myosin regulatory light chain 12B

Also known as: ML12B_HUMAN, MRLC2

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

Protein identityUniProt · HPA

UniProt accession
O14950
Gene
MYL12B
Ensembl
ENSG00000118680
Chromosome
18
Canonical length
172 aa
Protein class
Plasma proteins, Predicted intracellular proteins

OverviewNCBI Gene

The activity of nonmuscle myosin II (see MYH9; MIM 160775) is regulated by phosphorylation of a regulatory light chain, such as MRLC2. This phosphorylation results in higher MgATPase activity and the assembly of myosin II filaments (Iwasaki et al., 2001 [PubMed 11942626]).[supplied by OMIM, Mar 2008]

Canonical amino-acid sequenceUniProt

172 residues, UniProt reviewed canonical sequence.

>O14950|MYL12B
     1  MSSKKAKTKT TKKRPQRATS NVFAMFDQSQ IQEFKEAFNM IDQNRDGFID KEDLHDMLAS
    61  LGKNPTDAYL DAMMNEAPGP INFTMFLTMF GEKLNGTDPE DVIRNAFACF DEEATGTIQE
   121  DYLRELLTTM GDRFTDEEVD ELYREAPIDK KGNFNYIEFT RILKHGAKDK DD

LocalizationUniProt · AlphaFold · HPA

Whether an antibody against MYL12B 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)
0.41
Highest tissue expression
576 nTPM

Expression across tissuesHPA

Tissue

  • kidney: 576 nTPM
  • esophagus: 515 nTPM
  • blood vessel: 462 nTPM
  • epididymis: 456 nTPM
  • adrenal gland: 447 nTPM
  • lung: 441 nTPM

Single-cell type

  • esophageal apical cells: 4,984 nCPM
  • esophageal suprabasal cells: 1,895 nCPM
  • syncytiotrophoblasts: 1,685 nCPM
  • colonocytes: 1,526 nCPM
  • extravillous trophoblasts: 1,435 nCPM
  • migrating cytotrophoblasts: 1,366 nCPM

Immune cell

  • eosinophil: 1,517 nTPM
  • basophil: 1,490 nTPM
  • total PBMC: 1,294 nTPM
  • neutrophil: 1,147 nTPM
  • non-classical monocyte: 802 nTPM
  • plasmacytoid DC: 799 nTPM

Brain region

  • choroid plexus: 157 nTPM
  • hypothalamus: 113 nTPM
  • medulla oblongata: 112 nTPM
  • pons: 111 nTPM
  • thalamus: 110 nTPM
  • hippocampal formation: 109 nTPM

DiseaseUniProt · ClinVar · IEDB · PubMed

Four sources answering four different questions about MYL12B.

Disease | ImmuneIEDB

Conditions an epitope on MYL12B was assayed in.

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)
1.2
gnomAD pLI
0.11
gnomAD missense Z
1.74
DepMap mean gene effect
0.01
DepMap dependency class
selective

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 MYL12B 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 MYL12B as an antibody target. Whether an autoantibody or antibody against MYL12B could matter depends on whether native MYL12B is physically reachable, whether the body needs it intact, and whether it acts in a disease-relevant tissue.

MYL12B 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 MYL12B as an autoantigen. Seroatlas presents hypothesis context only and does not manufacture a known-serology claim.

Canonical record: https://seroatlas.com/gene/MYL12B. 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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