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: ERCC5
Gene Name: ERCC5
Protein Full Name: DNA repair protein complementing XP-G cells
Alias: Cockayne syndrome; DNA excision repair protein ERCC-5; ERCM2; Excision repair cross-complementing rodent repair deficiency, complementation group 5; Excision repair cross-complementing rodent repair deficiency, complementation group 5 (xeroderma pigmentosum, complementation group G (Cockayne syndrome)); Xeroderma pigmentosum group G complementing protein; Xeroderma pigmentosum group G-complementing protein; XPGC
Mass (Da): 133108
Number AA: 1186
UniProt ID: P28715
Locus ID: 2073
COSMIC ID: ERCC5
Gene location on chromosome: 13q32-33
Number of cancer specimens: 20467
Percent of cancer specimens with mutations: 0.89


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