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: SUV39H1
Gene Name: SUV39H1
Protein Full Name: Histone-lysine N-methyltransferase SUV39H1
Alias: H3-K9-HMTase 1; Histone H3-K9 methyltransferase 1; Histone-lysine N-methyltransferase, H3 lysine-9 specific 1; KMT1A; Suppressor of variegation 3-9; suppressor of variegation 3-9 1; SUV39H; SUV91
Mass (Da): 47907
Number AA: 412
UniProt ID: O43463
Locus ID: 6839
COSMIC ID: SUV39H1
Gene location on chromosome: Xp11.23
Number of cancer specimens: 19717
Percent of cancer specimens with mutations: 0.28


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