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: IL5
Gene Name: IL5
Protein Full Name: Interleukin-5
Alias: B-cell differentiation factor I;Eosinophil differentiation factor;T-cell replacing factor
Mass (Da): 15238
Number AA: 134
UniProt ID: P05113
Locus ID: 3567
COSMIC ID: IL5
Gene location on chromosome: 5q31.1
Number of cancer specimens: 19717
Percent of cancer specimens with mutations: 0.06


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