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SMIM45

Small integral membrane protein 45

Also known as: SMI45_HUMAN

Cross-references: UniProt · GeneCards · NCBI Gene

Protein identityUniProt · HPA

UniProt accession
A0A590UK83
Gene
SMIM45
Canonical length
68 aa
Protein class
Predicted membrane proteins

OverviewNCBI Gene

No narrative summary is available for SMIM45 in this catalog release; identity and structured annotations are shown without generated factual claims.

Canonical amino-acid sequenceUniProt

68 residues, UniProt reviewed canonical sequence.

>A0A590UK83|SMIM45
     1  MPHFLDWFVP VYLVISVLIL VGFGACIYYF EPGLQEAHKW RMQRPLVDRD LRKTLMVRDN
    61  LAFGGPEV

LocalizationUniProt · AlphaFold · HPA

Whether an antibody against SMIM45 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
1
Mean surface accessibility (rSASA)
0.53
Highest tissue expression
39 nTPM

Expression across tissuesHPA

Tissue

  • basal ganglia: 39 nTPM
  • hippocampal formation: 38 nTPM
  • cerebral cortex: 34 nTPM
  • amygdala: 33 nTPM
  • hypothalamus: 19 nTPM
  • midbrain: 14 nTPM

Single-cell type

  • late primary spermatocytes: 17 nCPM
  • retinal bipolar cells: 13 nCPM
  • early spermatids: 11 nCPM
  • adrenal medulla cells: 11 nCPM
  • other brain neurons: 10 nCPM
  • brain inhibitory neurons: 10 nCPM

Immune cell

  • basophil: 0 nTPM
  • classical monocyte: 0 nTPM
  • eosinophil: 0 nTPM
  • gdT-cell: 0 nTPM
  • intermediate monocyte: 0 nTPM
  • MAIT T-cell: 0 nTPM

Brain region

  • thalamus: 43 nTPM
  • hippocampal formation: 42 nTPM
  • cerebral cortex: 42 nTPM
  • amygdala: 36 nTPM
  • basal ganglia: 33 nTPM
  • midbrain: 29 nTPM

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

Biological processes

Cellular components

KeywordsUniProt

Antibody and autoantibody relevanceSeroatlas analysis

Seroatlas reads SMIM45 as an antibody target. Whether an autoantibody or antibody against SMIM45 could matter depends on whether native SMIM45 is physically reachable, whether the body needs it intact, and whether it acts in a disease-relevant tissue.

SMIM45 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 SMIM45 as an autoantigen. Seroatlas presents hypothesis context only and does not manufacture a known-serology claim.

Canonical record: https://seroatlas.com/gene/SMIM45. 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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