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: MXI1
Gene Name: MXI1
Protein Full Name: Max-interacting protein 1
Alias: Class C basic helix-loop-helix protein 11
Mass (Da): 26062
Number AA: 228
UniProt ID: P50539
Locus ID: 4601
COSMIC ID: MXI1
Gene location on chromosome: 10q24-25
Cancer protein type: TSP
Effect of cancer mutation on protein: LOSS
Effect of active protein on cancer: INHIBIT
Number of cancer specimens: 19717
Percent of cancer specimens with mutations: 0.17
Mutations observed as inherited: NA
Found in amplified chromosomal regions in human cancers: NA
Deregulated in translocations: NA
Deregulated by viral insertion: NA
Transduced into viral genome: NA
Gene undergoes hypermethylation: NA
Normal role description: MXI1 is a transcriptional repressor of myc transcriptional activity. Defects in MXI1 have been associated with an increased susceptibility to prostate cancer.


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