Seroatlas · Human Serome Atlas

TMEM97

Sigma intracellular receptor 2

Also known as: σ2R, MAC30, SGMR2_HUMAN

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

Protein identityUniProt · HPA

UniProt accession
Q5BJF2
Gene
TMEM97
Ensembl
ENSG00000109084
Chromosome
17
Canonical length
176 aa
Protein class
Predicted membrane proteins, Transporters
Subcellular location
Endoplasmic reticulum
Quaternary structure
Homodimer

OverviewNCBI Gene

TMEM97 is a conserved integral membrane protein that plays a role in controlling cellular cholesterol levels (Bartz et al., 2009 [PubMed 19583955]).[supplied by OMIM, Aug 2009]

Canonical amino-acid sequenceUniProt

176 residues, UniProt reviewed canonical sequence.

>Q5BJF2|TMEM97
     1  MGAPATRRCV EWLLGLYFLS HIPITLFMDL QAVLPRELYP VEFRNLLKWY AKEFKDPLLQ
    61  EPPAWFKSFL FCELVFQLPF FPIATYAFLK GSCKWIRTPA IIYSVHTMTT LIPILSTFLF
   121  EDFSKASGFK GQRPETLHER LTLVSVYAPY LLIPFILLIF MLRSPYYKYE EKRKKK

LocalizationUniProt · AlphaFold · HPA

Whether an antibody against TMEM97 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
4
Mean surface accessibility (rSASA)
0.31
Highest tissue expression
303 nTPM

Expression across tissuesHPA

Tissue

  • pancreas: 303 nTPM
  • liver: 106 nTPM
  • testis: 54 nTPM
  • stomach: 38 nTPM
  • urinary bladder: 25 nTPM
  • adrenal gland: 24 nTPM

Single-cell type

  • oocytes: 332 nCPM
  • gastric chief cells: 281 nCPM
  • urothelial cells: 231 nCPM
  • pancreatic acinar cells: 172 nCPM
  • mucous neck cells: 171 nCPM
  • gastric progenitor cells: 154 nCPM

Immune cell

  • myeloid DC: 16 nTPM
  • memory B-cell: 11 nTPM
  • naive CD4 T-cell: 10 nTPM
  • naive CD8 T-cell: 9.8 nTPM
  • NK-cell: 9.5 nTPM
  • memory CD8 T-cell: 9.4 nTPM

Brain region

  • pons: 40 nTPM
  • midbrain: 38 nTPM
  • medulla oblongata: 28 nTPM
  • cerebral cortex: 26 nTPM
  • thalamus: 23 nTPM
  • white matter: 21 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)
1.5
gnomAD pLI
0
gnomAD missense Z
0.17
DepMap mean gene effect
-0.22
DepMap dependency class
selective

Cancer expressionTCGA

Across TCGA tumor cohorts, this protein is over-expressed in roughly 6% 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 TMEM97 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 TMEM97 as an antibody target. Whether an autoantibody or antibody against TMEM97 could matter depends on whether native TMEM97 is physically reachable, whether the body needs it intact, and whether it acts in a disease-relevant tissue.

TMEM97 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 TMEM97 as an autoantigen. Seroatlas presents hypothesis context only and does not manufacture a known-serology claim.

Canonical record: https://seroatlas.com/gene/TMEM97. 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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