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: PICALM
Gene Name: PICALM
Protein Full Name: Uncharacterized protein
Alias: cDNA FLJ75056, highly similar to Homo sapiens phosphatidylinositol binding clathrin assembly protein (PICALM), mRNA
Mass (Da): 70781
Number AA: 652
UniProt ID: Q13492
Locus ID: 8301
COSMIC ID: PICALM
Gene location on chromosome: 11q14-21
Cancer protein type: OP
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: 0.47
Deregulated in translocations: T-Cell ALL. Fusion partners include AF10
Normal role description: Clathrin assembly protein, recruits clathrin and adaptor protein complex 2 (AP2) in clathrin- vesicle assembly.


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