Complement component 1 Q subcomponent-binding protein, mitochondrial (C1QBP)

Is believed to be a multifunctional and multicompartmental protein involved in inflammation and disease processes, ribosome biogenesis, protein synthesis in mitochondria, regulation of apoptosis, transcriptional regulation and pre-mRNA splicing. At the cell surface is supposed to act as an endothelial receptor for plasma proteins of the complement and kallikrein- kinin cascades.

Putative receptor for C1q; specifically binds to the globular"heads" of C1q thus inhibiting C1; may carry out the receptor function by means of a complex with C1qR/CD93. In complex with cytokeratin-1/KRT1 is a high affinity receptor for kininogen- 1/HMWK.