UniProt Summary: Key regulator of mitochondrial calcium uniporter (MCU) required to limit calcium uptake by MCU when cytoplasmic calcium is low (PubMed:24503055, PubMed:24560927, PubMed:26903221). MICU1 and MICU2 form a disulfide-linked heterodimer that stimulate and inhibit MCU activity, depending on the concentration of calcium (PubMed:24560927). MICU2 acts as a gatekeeper of MCU that senses calcium level via its EF-hand domains: prevents channel opening at resting calcium, avoiding energy dissipation and cell-death triggering (PubMed:24560927). {ECO:0000269|PubMed:24503055, ECO:0000269|PubMed:24560927, ECO:0000269|PubMed:26387864, ECO:0000269|PubMed:26903221}.
Pfam DomainsGO Terms
Pfam Domains
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GO Terms
negative regulation of mitochondrial calcium ion concentration
uniplex complex
calcium import into the mitochondrion
positive regulation of mitochondrial calcium ion concentration
mitochondrial calcium ion transmembrane transport
calcium channel complex
mitochondrial calcium ion homeostasis
calcium ion import
mitochondrial intermembrane space
cytosolic calcium ion transport
mitochondrial transmembrane transport
calcium ion transmembrane transport
mitochondrial transport
calcium ion transport
divalent metal ion transport
divalent inorganic cation transport
mitochondrial inner membrane
cellular calcium ion homeostasis
calcium ion homeostasis
cellular divalent inorganic cation homeostasis
protein heterodimerization activity
divalent inorganic cation homeostasis
cellular metal ion homeostasis
inorganic cation transmembrane transport
cation transmembrane transport
metal ion homeostasis
cellular cation homeostasis
metal ion transport
cellular ion homeostasis
inorganic ion transmembrane transport
cation homeostasis
inorganic ion homeostasis
calcium ion binding
cellular chemical homeostasis
ion homeostasis
cation transport
cellular homeostasis
ion transmembrane transport
chemical homeostasis
mitochondrion
transmembrane transport
ion transport
homeostatic process
CRISPR Data
Compound HitMost Correlated Genes in ChemogenomicsTissues where Essential in the Avana Dataset (DepMap 20Q1)