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: | PLAT |
| Gene Name: | PLAT |
| Protein Full Name: | Tissue-type plasminogen activator |
| Alias: | name.">INN=Alteplase |
| Mass (Da): | 62917 |
| Number AA: | 562 |
| UniProt ID: | P00750 |
| Locus ID: | 5327 |
| COSMIC ID: | PLAT |
| Gene location on chromosome: | 8p11.21; 8p12 |
| Number of cancer specimens: | 19717 |
| Percent of cancer specimens with mutations: | 0.53 |
| Normal role description: | In cancer PKM2 was observed to be ovrexpressed in gastrointestinal tumors, melanoma, lung, breast, prostate, ovary and cervical cancers. Thus PKM2 can be classified as an oncogene. |