Cancer Protein Description

This report provides a detailed description of a selected cancer protein with information collected from various sources, including UniProt, the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute’s Catalogue of Somatic Mutations in Cancer (COSMIC), and the Atlas of Genetics and Cytogenetics in Oncology and Haematology.


Protein Name: PPAP2B
Gene Name: PPAP2B
Protein Full Name: Lipid phosphate phosphohydrolase 3
Alias: Dri42; EC 3.1.3.4; LPP3; PAP- 2b; PAP2b; PAP-2b; PAP2-b; PAP2-beta; Phosphatidate phosphohydrolase type 2b; Phosphatidic acid phosphatase 2b; Phosphatidic acid phosphatase type 2B; Vascular endothelial growth factor and type I collagen-inducible protein; VCIP
Mass (Da): 35116
Number AA: 311
UniProt ID: O14495
Locus ID: 8613
COSMIC ID: PPAP2B
Gene location on chromosome: 1p32.2
Number of cancer specimens: 19625
Percent of cancer specimens with mutations: 0.3


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