MCU

mitochondrial calcium uniporter

Summary

Enables calcium channel activity; identical protein binding activity; and uniporter activity. Involved in several processes, including cellular response to calcium ion starvation; positive regulation of mitochondrial calcium ion concentration; and positive regulation of mitochondrial fission. Located in mitochondrion. Part of uniplex complex. Is active in mitochondrial inner membrane. [provided by Alliance of Genome Resources, Jul 2025]

Known Variants18 total

rsidPosition (GRCh37)AllelesClassClinVar
rs74582900510:74,451,931T/A—uncertain significance
rs74562514510:74,451,976G/A—uncertain significance
rs88799886310:74,451,988G/A—uncertain significance
rs118146083910:74,452,016G/C—uncertain significance
rs1276769610:74,464,463T/Cregulatory region variant—
rs648064110:74,530,338A/Cdownstream gene variant—
rs249239894810:74,594,139G/C—uncertain significance
rs78041537010:74,594,180T/C—uncertain significance
rs14604789410:74,620,271G/A—uncertain significance
rs1100043010:74,630,138G/C——
rs1100043110:74,630,336A/C——
rs249248572210:74,631,153A/G—uncertain significance
rs76000377110:74,631,198G/A—uncertain significance
rs75577332610:74,631,232G/A—uncertain significance
rs1082394910:74,632,924C/Tintron variant—
rs37491059410:74,645,558G/A—uncertain significance
rs76630764410:74,645,575G/A—uncertain significance
rs14203020610:74,645,578T/A—benign

Gene information from NCBI Gene. Variant classifications from ClinVar.