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: | SQSTM1 |
| Gene Name: | SQSTM1 |
| Protein Full Name: | Sequestosome-1 |
| Alias: | EBI3-associated protein of 60 kDa;Phosphotyrosine-independent ligand for the Lck SH2 domain of 62 kDa;Ubiquitin-binding protein p62 |
| Mass (Da): | 47687 |
| Number AA: | 440 |
| UniProt ID: | Q13501 |
| Locus ID: | 8878 |
| COSMIC ID: | SQSTM1 |
| Gene location on chromosome: | 5q35.3 |
| Cancer protein type: | NA |
| Effect of cancer mutation on protein: | NA |
| Effect of active protein on cancer: | NA |
| Number of cancer specimens: | 19626 |
| Percent of cancer specimens with mutations: | 0.29 |
| Normal role description: | NA |
| Commentary on involvement of protein in cancer: | Note; Fusion protein SQSTM1-ALK has been observed in ALK-positive large B-cell lymphoma |