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: CDK5
Gene Name: CDK5
Protein Full Name: Cell division protein kinase 5
Alias: Cell division protein kinase 5; CRK6; EC 2.7.11.22; PSSALRE; TAU protein kinase II; TPKII
Mass (Da): 33304
Number AA: 292
UniProt ID: Q00535
Locus ID: 1020
COSMIC ID: CDK5
Gene location on chromosome: 7q36.1
Number of cancer specimens: 20041
Percent of cancer specimens with mutations: 0.19
Normal role description: CDK5 is a protein-serine/threonine kinase.


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