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: MAPK4
Gene Name: MAPK4
Protein Full Name: Mitogen-activated protein kinase 4
Alias: EC 2.7.11.24; MAP kinase isoform p63; MAPK4; MK04; P63-MAPK; PRKM4
Mass (Da): 62623
Number AA: 587
UniProt ID: P31152
Locus ID: 5596
COSMIC ID: MAPK4
Gene location on chromosome: 18q21.1
Cancer protein type: OP
Effect of cancer mutation on protein: GAIN
Effect of active protein on cancer: PROMOTES
Number of cancer specimens: 19535
Percent of cancer specimens with mutations: 0.76
Normal role description: MAPK4 is a protein-serine/threonine kinase.


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