Seroatlas · Human Serome Atlas

SMIM1

Small integral membrane protein 1

Also known as: SMIM1_HUMAN, Vel

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

Protein identityUniProt · HPA

UniProt accession
B2RUZ4
Gene
SMIM1
Ensembl
ENSG00000235169
Chromosome
1
Canonical length
78 aa
Protein class
Blood group antigen proteins, Predicted intracellular proteins, Predicted membrane proteins, Transporters
Quaternary structure
Homooligomer

OverviewNCBI Gene

This gene encodes a small, conserved protein that participates in red blood cell formation. The encoded protein is localized to the cell membrane and is the antigen for the Vel blood group. Alternative splicing results in different transcript variants that encode the same protein. [provided by RefSeq, Dec 2013]

Canonical amino-acid sequenceUniProt

78 residues, UniProt reviewed canonical sequence.

>B2RUZ4|SMIM1
     1  MQPQESHVHY SRWEDGSRDG VSLGAVSSTE EASRCRRISQ RLCTGKLGIA MKVLGGVALF
    61  WIIFILGYLT GYYVHKCK

LocalizationUniProt · AlphaFold · HPA

Whether an antibody against SMIM1 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
Cell surface
Secreted
No
Transmembrane segments
1
Mean surface accessibility (rSASA)
0.58
Highest tissue expression
48 nTPM

Expression across tissuesHPA

Tissue

  • heart muscle: 48 nTPM
  • testis: 47 nTPM
  • bone marrow: 30 nTPM
  • kidney: 20 nTPM
  • pituitary gland: 20 nTPM
  • liver: 16 nTPM

Single-cell type

  • megakaryocytes: 538 nCPM
  • erythrocyte progenitors: 225 nCPM
  • platelets: 202 nCPM
  • erythrocytes: 136 nCPM
  • breast lactating cells: 74 nCPM
  • parietal cells: 74 nCPM

Immune cell

  • eosinophil: 49 nTPM
  • basophil: 4.4 nTPM
  • naive CD4 T-cell: 4 nTPM
  • naive B-cell: 3.7 nTPM
  • neutrophil: 3.3 nTPM
  • memory B-cell: 2.5 nTPM

Brain region

  • pons: 21 nTPM
  • medulla oblongata: 18 nTPM
  • choroid plexus: 15 nTPM
  • white matter: 15 nTPM
  • spinal cord: 14 nTPM
  • midbrain: 14 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)
1.82
gnomAD pLI
0.03
gnomAD missense Z
0.83
DepMap mean gene effect
-0.03
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

Molecular functions

Cellular components

Protein domainsUniProt · Pfam · InterPro

  • Small integral membrane protein 1
  • Domain of unknown function (DUF4731)

KeywordsUniProt

Antibody and autoantibody relevanceSeroatlas analysis

Seroatlas reads SMIM1 as an antibody target. Whether an autoantibody or antibody against SMIM1 could matter depends on whether native SMIM1 is physically reachable, whether the body needs it intact, and whether it acts in a disease-relevant tissue.

SMIM1 is annotated at the cell surface, where native SMIM1 is exposed to circulating antibodies and is a prime autoantibody target that could block, deplete, or overstimulate it.

Annotation status

The present source text does not explicitly label SMIM1 as an autoantigen. Seroatlas presents hypothesis context only and does not manufacture a known-serology claim.

Canonical record: https://seroatlas.com/gene/SMIM1. 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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