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: PRKDC
Gene Name: PRKDC
Protein Full Name: DNA-dependent protein kinase catalytic subunit
Alias: DNA-PK catalytic subunit; DNA-PKcs; DNPK1; EC 2.7.11.1; P460; PRKD; XRCC7
Mass (Da): 469089
Number AA: 4128
UniProt ID: P78527
Locus ID: 5591
COSMIC ID: PRKDC
Gene location on chromosome: 8q11.21
Cancer protein type: OP
Effect of cancer mutation on protein: UNCLEAR
Effect of active protein on cancer: UNCLEAR
Number of cancer specimens: 19990
Percent of cancer specimens with mutations: 2.56
General distribution of mutations: Multi-site
Location of most mutations: Broad distribution of mutation sites with many point mutations , 1 insertion and 1 deletion across entire protein, but no complex mutations.
Normal role description: PRKDC is a protein-serine/threonine kinase.


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