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: CARS
Gene Name: CARS
Protein Full Name: Cysteinyl-tRNA synthetase, cytoplasmic
Alias: CARS; CARS1; Cysteine tRNA ligase 1, cytoplasmic; Cysteine-tRNA ligase; Cysteine--tRNA ligase; Cysteinyl-tRNA synthetase; EC 6.1.1.16; SYC; SYCC
Mass (Da): 85473
Number AA: 748
UniProt ID: P49589
Locus ID: 833
COSMIC ID: CARS
Gene location on chromosome: 11p15.5
Cancer protein type: UNCLEAR
Effect of cancer mutation on protein: UNCLEAR
Effect of active protein on cancer: UNCLEAR
Number of cancer specimens: 20242
Percent of cancer specimens with mutations: 0.6
Deregulated in translocations: ALK
Normal role description: CARS is a cysteine-tRNA synthetase. It catalyzes the aminoacylation of cysteine to cognate tRNA.


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