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: MITF
Gene Name: MITF
Protein Full Name: Microphthalmia-associated transcription factor
Alias: BHLHe32; BW; Homolog of mouse microphthalmia; MI; VIT; WS2A
Mass (Da): 58795
Number AA: 526
UniProt ID: O75030
Locus ID: 4286
COSMIC ID: MITF
Gene location on chromosome: 3p13
Number of cancer specimens: 20241
Percent of cancer specimens with mutations: 0.52


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