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: IK
Gene Name: IK
Protein Full Name: cDNA, FLJ92684, highly similar to Homo sapiens IK
Alias: Protein Red
Mass (Da): 65600
Number AA: 557
UniProt ID: Q13123
Locus ID: 3550
COSMIC ID: IK
Gene location on chromosome: 2p15-p14; 5q31.3
Number of cancer specimens: 19602
Percent of cancer specimens with mutations: 0.01
Commentary on involvement of protein in cancer: May bind to chromatin.


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