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: CASP6
Gene Name: CASP6
Protein Full Name: Caspase-6
Alias: Apoptotic protease Mch-2
Mass (Da): 33310
Number AA: 293
UniProt ID: P55212
Locus ID: 839
COSMIC ID: CASP6
Gene location on chromosome: 4q25
Cancer protein type: NA
Effect of cancer mutation on protein: NA
Effect of active protein on cancer: NA
Number of cancer specimens: 20150
Percent of cancer specimens with mutations: 0.15
Normal role description: NA


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