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: | CLDN7 |
| Gene Name: | CLDN7 |
| Protein Full Name: | Claudin-7 |
| Alias: | CEPTRL2; Claudin 7; Claudin 9; Claudin-1; CLD7; Clostridium perfringens enterotoxin receptor-like 2; CPETRL2 |
| Mass (Da): | 22390 |
| Number AA: | 211 |
| UniProt ID: | O95471 |
| Locus ID: | 1366 |
| COSMIC ID: | CLDN7 |
| Gene location on chromosome: | 17p13.1 |
| Number of cancer specimens: | 19625 |
| Percent of cancer specimens with mutations: | 0.1 |
| Normal role description: | oligodendroglioma and breast cancers. Loss of function may occur through hypermethylation or chromosomal deletions. Decreased CITED4 may promote p300/CBP aberrant activation of genes. |