Seroatlas · Human Serome Atlas

SMG9

Nonsense-mediated mRNA decay factor SMG9

Also known as: C19orf61, FLJ12886, SMG9_HUMAN

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

Protein identityUniProt · HPA

UniProt accession
Q9H0W8
Gene
SMG9
Ensembl
ENSG00000105771
Chromosome
19
Canonical length
520 aa
Protein class
Disease related genes, Human disease related genes, Predicted intracellular proteins, Predicted membrane proteins
Subcellular location
Vesicles,Cytosol
Quaternary structure
Homodimer

OverviewNCBI Gene

This gene encodes a regulatory subunit of the SMG1 complex, which plays a critical role in nonsense-mediated mRNA decay (NMD). Binding of the encoded protein to the SMG1 complex kinase scaffold protein results in the inhibition of its kinase activity. Mutations in this gene cause a multiple congenital anomaly syndrome in human patients, characterized by brain malformation, congenital heart disease and other features. [provided by RefSeq, Jul 2016]

Canonical amino-acid sequenceUniProt

520 residues, UniProt reviewed canonical sequence.

>Q9H0W8|SMG9
     1  MSESGHSQPG LYGIERRRRW KEPGSGGPQN LSGPGGRERD YIAPWERERR DASEETSTSV
    61  MQKTPIILSK PPAERSKQPP PPTAPAAPPA PAPLEKPIVL MKPREEGKGP VAVTGASTPE
   121  GTAPPPPAAP APPKGEKEGQ RPTQPVYQIQ NRGMGTAAPA AMDPVVGQAK LLPPERMKHS
   181  IKLVDDQMNW CDSAIEYLLD QTDVLVVGVL GLQGTGKSMV MSLLSANTPE EDQRTYVFRA
   241  QSAEMKERGG NQTSGIDFFI TQERIVFLDT QPILSPSILD HLINNDRKLP PEYNLPHTYV
   301  EMQSLQIAAF LFTVCHVVIV VQDWFTDLSL YRFLQTAEMV KPSTPSPSHE SSSSSGSDEG
   361  TEYYPHLVFL QNKARREDFC PRKLRQMHLM IDQLMAHSHL RYKGTLSMLQ CNVFPGLPPD
   421  FLDSEVNLFL VPFMDSEAES ENPPRAGPGS SPLFSLLPGY RGHPSFQSLV SKLRSQVMSM
   481  ARPQLSHTIL TEKNWFHYAA RIWDGVRKSS ALAEYSRLLA

LocalizationUniProt · AlphaFold · HPA

Whether an antibody against SMG9 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)
0.44
Highest tissue expression
32 nTPM

Expression across tissuesHPA

Tissue

  • testis: 32 nTPM
  • spinal cord: 14 nTPM
  • cerebellum: 14 nTPM
  • spleen: 13 nTPM
  • lymph node: 12 nTPM
  • salivary gland: 12 nTPM

Single-cell type

  • late spermatids: 585 nCPM
  • syncytiotrophoblasts: 137 nCPM
  • early spermatids: 105 nCPM
  • late primary spermatocytes: 100 nCPM
  • cytotrophoblasts: 71 nCPM
  • alveolar cells type 1: 49 nCPM

Immune cell

  • non-classical monocyte: 12 nTPM
  • total PBMC: 11 nTPM
  • intermediate monocyte: 7.7 nTPM
  • memory B-cell: 7.4 nTPM
  • myeloid DC: 6.9 nTPM
  • naive CD4 T-cell: 6.7 nTPM

Brain region

  • white matter: 31 nTPM
  • pons: 29 nTPM
  • cerebral cortex: 28 nTPM
  • medulla oblongata: 28 nTPM
  • midbrain: 25 nTPM
  • thalamus: 25 nTPM

DiseaseUniProt · ClinVar · IEDB · PubMed

Four sources answering four different questions about SMG9.

Disease | AllUniProt

Conditions SMG9 is implicated in, by any mechanism.

Disease | GeneticClinVar

16 pathogenic / likely-pathogenic of 149 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)
1.1
gnomAD pLI
0
gnomAD missense Z
1.6
DepMap mean gene effect
-0.09
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 SMG9 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 SMG9 as an antibody target. Whether an autoantibody or antibody against SMG9 could matter depends on whether native SMG9 is physically reachable, whether the body needs it intact, and whether it acts in a disease-relevant tissue.

SMG9 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 SMG9 as an autoantigen. Seroatlas presents hypothesis context only and does not manufacture a known-serology claim.

Canonical record: https://seroatlas.com/gene/SMG9. 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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