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MTMR10

Myotubularin-related protein 10 · UniProt Q9NXD2

Length
777 aa
Mass
88.3 kDa
Annotated
2026-06-10
10 papers in source corpus 1 papers cited in narrative 1 extracted findings
Cross-family judge faithfulness: 1/1 claims corpus-supported (100%)

Mechanistic narrative

Synthesis pass · prose summary of the discoveries below

MTMR10 is a member of the myotubularin-related protein family whose protein-level function remains uncharacterized in the available corpus. The only direct experimental evidence concerns its transcriptional regulation: a promoter SNP (rs3743231, C allele) increases MTMR10 promoter activity in a luciferase reporter assay, identifying this variant as a modulator of MTMR10 transcription (PMID:39875006). Beyond this transcriptional finding, no enzymatic activity, binding partners, subcellular localization, or downstream signaling mechanism for MTMR10 has been experimentally established in the available corpus.

Mechanistic history

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  1. 2025 Medium

    It was unknown whether common variation at the MTMR10 locus affects its expression; a promoter reporter assay showed that the rs3743231 C allele raises promoter activity, establishing a cis-regulatory mechanism by which this variant tunes MTMR10 transcription.

    Evidence Luciferase reporter (promoter activity) assay comparing allelic constructs

    PMID:39875006

    Open questions at the time
    • Single lab, single assay without replication or orthogonal validation (e.g. allele-specific expression, eQTL)
    • Does not establish the transcription factors or chromatin context mediating the allelic effect
    • Does not connect altered transcription to any downstream protein function or phenotype

Open questions

Synthesis pass · forward-looking unresolved questions
  • The molecular function of the MTMR10 protein — any catalytic activity, substrate, binding partners, localization, or pathway role — remains undefined in the available corpus.
  • No enzymatic activity demonstrated
  • No physical interaction partners identified
  • No subcellular localization or pathway placement established

Mechanism profile

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Evidence

Reading pass · 1 per-paper finding extracted from the source corpus
Year Finding Method Journal Conf PMIDs
2025 A SNP in the MTMR10 promoter region (rs3743231 C allele) increases MTMR10 promoter activity, as demonstrated by luciferase reporter assay, indicating that this variant modulates MTMR10 transcription. Luciferase reporter assay (promoter activity assay) Gene Medium 39875006

Source papers

Stage 0 corpus · 10 papers · ranked by NIH iCite citations
Year Title Journal Citations PMID
2010 A 15q13.3 homozygous microdeletion associated with a severe neurodevelopmental disorder suggests putative functions of the TRPM1, CHRNA7, and other homozygously deleted genes. American journal of medical genetics. Part A 47 20425840
2016 15q13.3 homozygous knockout mouse model display epilepsy-, autism- and schizophrenia-related phenotypes. Translational psychiatry 43 27459725
2011 Homozygous deletion of chromosome 15q13.3 including CHRNA7 causes severe mental retardation, seizures, muscular hypotonia, and the loss of KLF13 and TRPM1 potentially cause macrocytosis and congenital retinal dysfunction in siblings. European journal of medical genetics 43 21596161
2015 Copy number variants in attention-deficit hyperactive disorder: identification of the 15q13 deletion and its functional role. Psychiatric genetics 22 25370694
2021 Mice with mutations in Trpm1, a gene in the locus of 15q13.3 microdeletion syndrome, display pronounced hyperactivity and decreased anxiety-like behavior. Molecular brain 9 33785025
2020 Molecular, physiological and behavioral characterization of the heterozygous Df[h15q13]/+ mouse model associated with the human 15q13.3 microdeletion syndrome. Brain research 9 32712126
2019 Central and peripheral immune responses to low-dose lipopolysaccharide in a mouse model of the 15q13.3 microdeletion. Cytokine 6 31629107
2025 Histone modification-based functional characterization and genetic association of polymorphisms in LRRC6 and MTMR10 within CRC susceptibility regions 8q24 and 15q13.3. Gene 2 39875006
2022 Peripheral immune challenges elicit differential up-regulation of hippocampal cytokine and chemokine mRNA expression in a mouse model of the 15q13.3 microdeletion syndrome. Cytokine 2 36084604
2025 Common and rare variant analyses implicate late-infancy cerebellar development and immune genes in ADHD. Journal of neurodevelopmental disorders 0 40542392

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