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: PRPS1
Gene Name: PRPS1
Protein Full Name: Ribose-phosphate pyrophosphokinase 1
Alias: CMTX5; Phosphoribosyl pyrophosphate synthetase 1; Phosphoribosyl pyrophosphate synthetase I; PPRibP; PRS I; PRS-I; Ribose-phosphate pyrophosphokinase I
Mass (Da): 34834
Number AA: 318
UniProt ID: P60891
Locus ID: 5631
COSMIC ID: PRPS1
Gene location on chromosome: Xq21.32-q24; Xq22.3
Number of cancer specimens: 19780
Percent of cancer specimens with mutations: 0.23


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