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: ST18
Gene Name: ST18
Protein Full Name: Suppression of tumorigenicity 18 protein
Alias: Zinc finger protein 387
Mass (Da): 115155
Number AA: 1047
UniProt ID: O60284
Locus ID: 9705
COSMIC ID: ST18
Gene location on chromosome: 9705
Cancer protein type: UNCLEAR
Effect of cancer mutation on protein: UNCLEAR
Effect of active protein on cancer: UNCLEAR
Number of cancer specimens: 19625
Percent of cancer specimens with mutations: 1.71
General distribution of mutations: Multi-site
Location of most mutations: Broad distribution of mutation sites with several point mutations, but no complex, insertion or deletion mutants.
Commonly recorded point mutations: A92T (10);
Normal role description: Acts as a repressor and inhibits colony formation in cultured breast cancer cells.


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