TIMM10
Mitochondrial import inner membrane translocase subunit Tim10
Also known as: TIM10, TIM10_HUMAN, TIM10A, TIMM10A
Cross-references: UniProt · Ensembl · Human Protein Atlas · GeneCards · NCBI Gene
Protein identityUniProt · HPA
- UniProt accession
- P62072
- Gene
- TIMM10
- Ensembl
- ENSG00000134809
- Chromosome
- 11
- Canonical length
- 90 aa
- Protein class
- Predicted intracellular proteins
- Subcellular location
- Mitochondria
OverviewNCBI Gene
The mitochondrial protein encoded by this gene belongs to a family of evolutionarily conserved proteins that are organized in heterooligomeric complexes in the mitochondrial intermembrane space. These proteins mediate the import and insertion of hydrophobic membrane proteins into the mitochondrial inner membrane, functioning as intermembrane space chaperones for the highly insoluble carrier proteins. [provided by RefSeq, Nov 2011]
Canonical amino-acid sequenceUniProt
90 residues, UniProt reviewed canonical sequence.
>P62072|TIMM10
1 MDPLRAQQLA AELEVEMMAD MYNRMTSACH RKCVPPHYKE AELSKGESVC LDRCVSKYLD
61 IHERMGKKLT ELSMQDEELM KRVQQSSGPALocalizationUniProt · AlphaFold · HPA
Whether an antibody against TIMM10 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
- Other membrane
- Secreted
- No
- Transmembrane segments
- 0
- Mean surface accessibility (rSASA)
- 0.48
- Highest tissue expression
- 76 nTPM
Expression across tissuesHPA
Tissue
- skeletal muscle: 76 nTPM
- liver: 75 nTPM
- tongue: 63 nTPM
- choroid plexus: 61 nTPM
- cerebral cortex: 59 nTPM
- heart muscle: 59 nTPM
Single-cell type
- late spermatids: 389 nCPM
- hepatocytes: 232 nCPM
- esophageal basal cells: 158 nCPM
- epididymal principal cells: 153 nCPM
- hofbauer cells: 145 nCPM
- early spermatids: 142 nCPM
Immune cell
- memory B-cell: 189 nTPM
- naive B-cell: 180 nTPM
- plasmacytoid DC: 147 nTPM
- myeloid DC: 147 nTPM
- total PBMC: 146 nTPM
- naive CD4 T-cell: 119 nTPM
Brain region
- spinal cord: 34 nTPM
- white matter: 32 nTPM
- hypothalamus: 32 nTPM
- cerebral cortex: 31 nTPM
- basal ganglia: 30 nTPM
- cerebellum: 30 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)
- 1.85
- gnomAD pLI
- 0
- gnomAD missense Z
- 0.92
- DepMap mean gene effect
- -1.14
- DepMap dependency class
- common
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
- protein insertion into mitochondrial inner membrane
- protein targeting to mitochondrion
- protein transport
- sensory perception of sound
Molecular functions
- membrane insertase activity
- protein homodimerization activity
- protein-folding chaperone binding
- zinc ion binding
Cellular components
Protein domainsUniProt · Pfam · InterPro
KeywordsUniProt
InteractionsUniProt · HPA
Protein binding partners of TIMM10 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 TIMM10 as an antibody target. Whether an autoantibody or antibody against TIMM10 could matter depends on whether native TIMM10 is physically reachable, whether the body needs it intact, and whether it acts in a disease-relevant tissue.
TIMM10 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 TIMM10 as an autoantigen. Seroatlas presents hypothesis context only and does not manufacture a known-serology claim.
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