Seroatlas · Human Serome Atlas

NNMT

Nicotinamide N-methyltransferase

Also known as: NNMT_HUMAN

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

Protein identityUniProt · HPA

UniProt accession
P40261
Gene
NNMT
Ensembl
ENSG00000166741
Chromosome
11
Canonical length
264 aa
Protein class
Enzymes, FDA approved drug targets, Metabolic proteins, Plasma proteins, Predicted intracellular proteins
Subcellular location
Golgi apparatus,Cytosol

OverviewNCBI Gene

N-methylation is one method by which drug and other xenobiotic compounds are metabolized by the liver. This gene encodes the protein responsible for this enzymatic activity which uses S-adenosyl methionine as the methyl donor. [provided by RefSeq, Jul 2008]

Canonical amino-acid sequenceUniProt

264 residues, UniProt reviewed canonical sequence.

>P40261|NNMT
     1  MESGFTSKDT YLSHFNPRDY LEKYYKFGSR HSAESQILKH LLKNLFKIFC LDGVKGDLLI
    61  DIGSGPTIYQ LLSACESFKE IVVTDYSDQN LQELEKWLKK EPEAFDWSPV VTYVCDLEGN
   121  RVKGPEKEEK LRQAVKQVLK CDVTQSQPLG AVPLPPADCV LSTLCLDAAC PDLPTYCRAL
   181  RNLGSLLKPG GFLVIMDALK SSYYMIGEQK FSSLPLGREA VEAAVKEAGY TIEWFEVISQ
   241  SYSSTMANNE GLFSLVARKL SRPL

LocalizationUniProt · AlphaFold · HPA

Whether an antibody against NNMT 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)
0.23
Highest tissue expression
297 nTPM

Expression across tissuesHPA

Tissue

  • liver: 297 nTPM
  • blood vessel: 61 nTPM
  • adipose tissue: 54 nTPM
  • gallbladder: 40 nTPM
  • urinary bladder: 40 nTPM
  • breast: 39 nTPM

Single-cell type

  • hepatocytes: 4,376 nCPM
  • myosatellite cells: 1,317 nCPM
  • fibroblasts: 759 nCPM
  • decidual stromal cells: 748 nCPM
  • endometrial secretory cells: 625 nCPM
  • mesothelial cells: 555 nCPM

Immune cell

  • basophil: 0.3 nTPM
  • neutrophil: 0.2 nTPM
  • naive B-cell: 0.1 nTPM
  • plasmacytoid DC: 0.1 nTPM
  • classical monocyte: 0 nTPM
  • eosinophil: 0 nTPM

Brain region

  • medulla oblongata: 8.3 nTPM
  • white matter: 6.4 nTPM
  • pons: 4.9 nTPM
  • cerebral cortex: 4.3 nTPM
  • choroid plexus: 4 nTPM
  • spinal cord: 3.9 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)
1.86
gnomAD pLI
0
gnomAD missense Z
-1.19
DepMap mean gene effect
0.08
DepMap dependency class
none

Cancer expressionTCGA

Across TCGA tumor cohorts, this protein is over-expressed in roughly 4% of surveyed tumor types (aggregate summary; per-cohort expression, alteration, and survival load in the interactive view).

OntologyGO

Biological processes

Molecular functions

  • nicotinamide N-methyltransferase activity
  • pyridine N-methyltransferase activity

Cellular components

Protein domainsUniProt · Pfam · InterPro

KeywordsUniProt

Antibody and autoantibody relevanceSeroatlas analysis

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

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

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