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: PIK3R1
Gene Name: PIK3R1
Protein Full Name: Phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase regulatory subunit a
Alias: GRB1; P85; P85A; P85-ALPHA; Phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase regulatory alpha subunit; Phosphoinositide-3-kinase, regulatory subunit 1 (alpha); PI3K; PI3K p85-alpha; PI3-kinase p85-alpha; PtdIns-3-kinase p85-alpha
Mass (Da): 83598
Number AA: 724
UniProt ID: P27986
Locus ID: 5295
COSMIC ID: PIK3R1
Gene location on chromosome: 5q13.1
Cancer protein type: OP
Effect of cancer mutation on protein: GAIN
Effect of active protein on cancer: PROMOTES
Number of cancer specimens: 26379
Percent of cancer specimens with mutations: 1.74
General distribution of mutations: Multi-site
Location of most mutations: Broad distribution of mutation sites with many point mutations, complex mutations, insertions and deletions across entire protein.
Normal role description: PIK3R1 is a regulatory subunit for a phosphatidylinositol kinase.


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