RPP25
Ribonuclease P protein subunit p25
Also known as: FLJ20374, RPP25_HUMAN
Cross-references: UniProt · Ensembl · Human Protein Atlas · GeneCards · NCBI Gene
Protein identityUniProt · HPA
- UniProt accession
- Q9BUL9
- Gene
- RPP25
- Ensembl
- ENSG00000178718
- Chromosome
- 15
- Canonical length
- 199 aa
- Protein class
- Predicted intracellular proteins
- Subcellular location
- Nucleoplasm,Centriolar satellite
OverviewNCBI Gene
Enables ribonuclease P RNA binding activity. Contributes to ribonuclease P activity. Involved in tRNA 5'-leader removal. Located in centriolar satellite and nucleoplasm. Part of multimeric ribonuclease P complex and ribonuclease MRP complex. Biomarker of autistic disorder. [provided by Alliance of Genome Resources, Jul 2025]
Canonical amino-acid sequenceUniProt
199 residues, UniProt reviewed canonical sequence.
>Q9BUL9|RPP25
1 MENFRKVRSE EAPAGCGAEG GGPGSGPFAD LAPGAVHMRV KEGSKIRNLM AFATASMAQP
61 ATRAIVFSGC GRATTKTVTC AEILKRRLAG LHQVTRLRYR SVREVWQSLP PGPTQGQTPG
121 EPAASLSVLK NVPGLAILLS KDALDPRQPG YQPPNPHPGP SSPPAAPASK RSLGEPAAGE
181 GSAKRSQPEP GVADEDQTALocalizationUniProt · AlphaFold · HPA
Whether an antibody against RPP25 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)
- 0.46
- Highest tissue expression
- 22 nTPM
Expression across tissuesHPA
Tissue
- parathyroid gland: 22 nTPM
- spinal cord: 20 nTPM
- ovary: 20 nTPM
- adrenal gland: 16 nTPM
- midbrain: 15 nTPM
- hypothalamus: 14 nTPM
Single-cell type
- hofbauer cells: 154 nCPM
- retinal bipolar cells: 55 nCPM
- ovarian stromal cells: 44 nCPM
- esophageal basal cells: 38 nCPM
- rod photoreceptor cells: 32 nCPM
- peritubular myoid cells: 29 nCPM
Immune cell
- plasmacytoid DC: 26 nTPM
- intermediate monocyte: 10 nTPM
- non-classical monocyte: 7.8 nTPM
- classical monocyte: 5.2 nTPM
- myeloid DC: 5.1 nTPM
- naive CD4 T-cell: 3.8 nTPM
Brain region
- pons: 32 nTPM
- medulla oblongata: 30 nTPM
- cerebellum: 28 nTPM
- white matter: 24 nTPM
- midbrain: 24 nTPM
- thalamus: 24 nTPM
ReferencesPubMed · IEDB
Publications for RPP25 from three distinct lines of evidence, kept separate because they answer different questions: whether antibodies are directed at the protein, whether a B-cell epitope has been mapped on it, and whether a T-cell epitope has. Each is labelled with its source.
Reference: AutoantibodyPubMed
3 publications
- Autoantibodies to the Rpp25 component of the Th/To complex are the most common antibodies in patients with systemic sclerosis without antibodies detectable by widely available commercial tests.
2014 · J Rheumatol · RCR 1.2 · 31 citations - Identity of the RNase MRP- and RNase P-associated Th/To autoantigen.
2002 · Arthritis Rheum · RCR 0.9 · 50 citations - Rpp25 is a major target of autoantibodies to the Th/To complex as measured by a novel chemiluminescent assay.
2013 · Arthritis Res Ther · RCR 0.8 · 21 citations
Sources: PubMed — antigen-level antibody evidence from a custom retrieval. Records matching a controlled set of autoantibody terms (the MeSH descriptors Autoantibodies and Autoantigens, with title and abstract term variants) were obtained through NCBI E-utilities, and their titles and abstracts parsed for constructions that direct an antibody at a named protein rather than for co-occurrence. Captured names were resolved against UniProt nomenclature and each antigen adjudicated individually against the source text. Bibliographic records from PubMed and MeSH, U.S. National Library of Medicine; citation metrics from NIH iCite (Hutchins et al., PLoS Biology 2016). Titles link to PubMed; abstracts are not reproduced here. The NLM does not endorse this analysis.
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)
- 1.5
- gnomAD pLI
- 0.21
- gnomAD missense Z
- 0.72
- DepMap mean gene effect
- 0.12
- DepMap dependency class
- selective
Cancer expressionTCGA
Across TCGA tumor cohorts, this protein is over-expressed in roughly 5% 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 RPP25 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 RPP25 as an antibody target. Whether an autoantibody or antibody against RPP25 could matter depends on whether native RPP25 is physically reachable, whether the body needs it intact, and whether it acts in a disease-relevant tissue.
RPP25 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 RPP25 as an autoantigen. Seroatlas presents hypothesis context only and does not manufacture a known-serology claim.
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