Seroatlas · Human Serome Atlas

PNPT1

Polyribonucleotide nucleotidyltransferase 1, mitochondrial

Also known as: DFNB70, old-35, OLD35, PNPase, PNPT1_HUMAN

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

Protein identityUniProt · HPA

UniProt accession
Q8TCS8
Gene
PNPT1
Ensembl
ENSG00000138035
Chromosome
2
Canonical length
783 aa
Protein class
Disease related genes, Enzymes, Human disease related genes, Potential drug targets, Predicted intracellular proteins
Subcellular location
Mitochondria,Cytosol
Quaternary structure
Homotrimer

OverviewNCBI Gene

The protein encoded by this gene belongs to the evolutionary conserved polynucleotide phosphorylase family comprised of phosphate dependent 3'-to-5' exoribonucleases implicated in RNA processing and degradation. This enzyme is predominantly localized in the mitochondrial intermembrane space and is involved in import of RNA to mitochondria. Mutations in this gene have been associated with combined oxidative phosphorylation deficiency-13 and autosomal recessive nonsyndromic deafness-70. Related pseudogenes are found on chromosomes 3 and 7. [provided by RefSeq, Dec 2012]

Canonical amino-acid sequenceUniProt

783 residues, UniProt reviewed canonical sequence.

>Q8TCS8|PNPT1
     1  MAACRYCCSC LRLRPLSDGP FLLPRRDRAL TQLQVRALWS SAGSRAVAVD LGNRKLEISS
    61  GKLARFADGS AVVQSGDTAV MVTAVSKTKP SPSQFMPLVV DYRQKAAAAG RIPTNYLRRE
   121  IGTSDKEILT SRIIDRSIRP LFPAGYFYDT QVLCNLLAVD GVNEPDVLAI NGASVALSLS
   181  DIPWNGPVGA VRIGIIDGEY VVNPTRKEMS SSTLNLVVAG APKSQIVMLE ASAENILQQD
   241  FCHAIKVGVK YTQQIIQGIQ QLVKETGVTK RTPQKLFTPS PEIVKYTHKL AMERLYAVFT
   301  DYEHDKVSRD EAVNKIRLDT EEQLKEKFPE ADPYEIIESF NVVAKEVFRS IVLNEYKRCD
   361  GRDLTSLRNV SCEVDMFKTL HGSALFQRGQ TQVLCTVTFD SLESGIKSDQ VITAINGIKD
   421  KNFMLHYEFP PYATNEIGKV TGLNRRELGH GALAEKALYP VIPRDFPFTI RVTSEVLESN
   481  GSSSMASACG GSLALMDSGV PISSAVAGVA IGLVTKTDPE KGEIEDYRLL TDILGIEDYN
   541  GDMDFKIAGT NKGITALQAD IKLPGIPIKI VMEAIQQASV AKKEILQIMN KTISKPRASR
   601  KENGPVVETV QVPLSKRAKF VGPGGYNLKK LQAETGVTIS QVDEETFSVF APTPSAMHEA
   661  RDFITEICKD DQEQQLEFGA VYTATITEIR DTGVMVKLYP NMTAVLLHNT QLDQRKIKHP
   721  TALGLEVGQE IQVKYFGRDP ADGRMRLSRK VLQSPATTVV RTLNDRSSIV MGEPISQSSS
   781  NSQ

LocalizationUniProt · AlphaFold · HPA

Whether an antibody against PNPT1 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
Other membrane
Secreted
No
Transmembrane segments
0
Mean surface accessibility (rSASA)
0.28
Highest tissue expression
11 nTPM

Expression across tissuesHPA

Tissue

  • skeletal muscle: 11 nTPM
  • spinal cord: 9 nTPM
  • cerebellum: 8.2 nTPM
  • midbrain: 8.1 nTPM
  • hippocampal formation: 7.6 nTPM
  • pancreas: 7.5 nTPM

Single-cell type

  • oligodendrocytes: 126 nCPM
  • erythrocyte progenitors: 98 nCPM
  • myonuclei: 86 nCPM
  • alveolar cells type 1: 78 nCPM
  • adrenal medulla cells: 75 nCPM
  • megakaryocyte progenitors: 72 nCPM

Immune cell

  • naive B-cell: 5.3 nTPM
  • gdT-cell: 4.1 nTPM
  • memory CD8 T-cell: 4.1 nTPM
  • plasmacytoid DC: 4.1 nTPM
  • eosinophil: 3.9 nTPM
  • naive CD8 T-cell: 3.8 nTPM

Brain region

  • white matter: 23 nTPM
  • cerebral cortex: 22 nTPM
  • pons: 20 nTPM
  • medulla oblongata: 19 nTPM
  • basal ganglia: 19 nTPM
  • hypothalamus: 19 nTPM

DiseaseUniProt · ClinVar · IEDB · PubMed

Four sources answering four different questions about PNPT1.

Disease | AllUniProt

Conditions PNPT1 is implicated in, by any mechanism.

Disease | GeneticClinVar

72 pathogenic / likely-pathogenic of 1,001 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)
0.48
gnomAD pLI
0
gnomAD missense Z
0.42
DepMap mean gene effect
-0.83
DepMap dependency class
common

Cancer expressionTCGA

Across TCGA tumor cohorts, this protein is over-expressed in roughly 8% 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 PNPT1 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 PNPT1 as an antibody target. Whether an autoantibody or antibody against PNPT1 could matter depends on whether native PNPT1 is physically reachable, whether the body needs it intact, and whether it acts in a disease-relevant tissue.

PNPT1 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 PNPT1 as an autoantigen. Seroatlas presents hypothesis context only and does not manufacture a known-serology claim.

Canonical record: https://seroatlas.com/gene/PNPT1. 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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