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: MKRN3
Gene Name: MKRN3
Protein Full Name: Probable E3 ubiquitin-protein ligase makorin-3
Alias: D15S9; RING finger protein 63; RNF63; ZFP127; Zinc finger protein 127; ZNF127
Mass (Da): 55645
Number AA: 507
UniProt ID: Q13064
Locus ID: 7681
COSMIC ID: MKRN3
Gene location on chromosome: 15q11-q13
Cancer protein type: UNCLEAR
Effect of cancer mutation on protein: UNCLEAR
Effect of active protein on cancer: UNCLEAR
Number of cancer specimens: 20121
Percent of cancer specimens with mutations: 1.26
Normal role description: MKRN3 encodes for a E3 ubiquitin ligase that catalyzes the covalent attachment of ubiquitin moieties onto substrate proteins.


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