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: MTAP
Gene Name: MTAP
Protein Full Name: S-methyl-5'-thioadenosine phosphorylase
Alias: 5'-methylthioadenosine phosphorylase; c86fus; methylthioadenosine phosphorylase; MSAP; MTA phosphorylase; MTAPase; S-methyl-5-thioadenosine phosphorylase
Mass (Da): 31236
Number AA: 283
UniProt ID: Q13126
Locus ID: 4507
COSMIC ID: MTAP
Gene location on chromosome: 9p21.3
Number of cancer specimens: 20456
Percent of cancer specimens with mutations: 0.19


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