Seroatlas · Human Serome Atlas

POLR2I

DNA-directed RNA polymerase II subunit RPB9

Also known as: hRPB14.5, RPB9, RPB9_HUMAN

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

Protein identityUniProt · HPA

UniProt accession
P36954
Gene
POLR2I
Ensembl
ENSG00000105258
Chromosome
19
Canonical length
125 aa
Protein class
Metabolic proteins, Predicted intracellular proteins, RNA polymerase related proteins
Subcellular location
Nucleoplasm

OverviewNCBI Gene

This gene encodes a subunit of RNA polymerase II, the polymerase responsible for synthesizing messenger RNA in eukaryotes. This subunit, in combination with two other polymerase subunits, forms the DNA binding domain of the polymerase, a groove in which the DNA template is transcribed into RNA. The product of this gene has two zinc finger motifs with conserved cysteines and the subunit does possess zinc binding activity. [provided by RefSeq, Jul 2008]

Canonical amino-acid sequenceUniProt

125 residues, UniProt reviewed canonical sequence.

>P36954|POLR2I
     1  MEPDGTYEPG FVGIRFCQEC NNMLYPKEDK ENRILLYACR NCDYQQEADN SCIYVNKITH
    61  EVDELTQIIA DVSQDPTLPR TEDHPCQKCG HKEAVFFQSH SARAEDAMRL YYVCTAPHCG
   121  HRWTE

LocalizationUniProt · AlphaFold · HPA

Whether an antibody against POLR2I 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
234 nTPM

Expression across tissuesHPA

Tissue

  • skeletal muscle: 234 nTPM
  • testis: 211 nTPM
  • heart muscle: 178 nTPM
  • spinal cord: 138 nTPM
  • amygdala: 138 nTPM
  • midbrain: 129 nTPM

Single-cell type

  • late spermatids: 3,809 nCPM
  • late primary spermatocytes: 1,113 nCPM
  • early spermatids: 1,109 nCPM
  • respiratory ciliated cells: 489 nCPM
  • fallopian tube ciliated cells: 462 nCPM
  • esophageal apical cells: 458 nCPM

Immune cell

  • plasmacytoid DC: 225 nTPM
  • T-reg: 177 nTPM
  • memory B-cell: 170 nTPM
  • naive CD4 T-cell: 151 nTPM
  • memory CD4 T-cell: 149 nTPM
  • naive B-cell: 136 nTPM

Brain region

  • white matter: 115 nTPM
  • cerebellum: 86 nTPM
  • basal ganglia: 84 nTPM
  • medulla oblongata: 78 nTPM
  • hypothalamus: 77 nTPM
  • cerebral cortex: 76 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)
0.71
gnomAD pLI
0.36
gnomAD missense Z
1.49
DepMap mean gene effect
-1.66
DepMap dependency class
pan

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 POLR2I 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 POLR2I as an antibody target. Whether an autoantibody or antibody against POLR2I could matter depends on whether native POLR2I is physically reachable, whether the body needs it intact, and whether it acts in a disease-relevant tissue.

POLR2I 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 POLR2I as an autoantigen. Seroatlas presents hypothesis context only and does not manufacture a known-serology claim.

Canonical record: https://seroatlas.com/gene/POLR2I. 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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