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: ZBTB16
Gene Name: ZBTB16
Protein Full Name: Zinc finger and BTB domain-containing protein 16
Alias: kruppel-like zinc finger; plzf; promyelocytic leukemia zinc finger; zbt16; zbtb16; zinc finger and BTB domain containing 16; zinc finger and BTB domain-containing 16; zinc finger protein 145 (PLZF); znf145
Mass (Da): 74274
Number AA: 673
UniProt ID: Q05516
Locus ID: 7704
COSMIC ID: ZBTB16
Gene location on chromosome: 11q23.1
Cancer protein type: UNCLEAR
Effect of cancer mutation on protein: UNCLEAR
Effect of active protein on cancer: UNCLEAR
Number of cancer specimens: 20237
Percent of cancer specimens with mutations: 0.03
Deregulated in translocations: t(11;17)(q23;q21): ZBTB16-RARA (acute promyelocytic leukaemia)
Normal role description: Associated with myeloid differentiation. Represses transcription. Interacts with histone deacetylase and is involved in cell cycle progression. Probable component of an E3 ubiquitin-protein ligase complex. Translocations associated with acute promyelocytic leukemia.


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