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: KISS1
Gene Name: KISS1
Protein Full Name: Metastasis-suppressor KiSS-1
Alias: Kisspeptin-1;Kisspeptin-54
Mass (Da): 15332
Number AA: 145
UniProt ID: Q15726
Locus ID: 3814
COSMIC ID: KISS1
Gene location on chromosome: 1q32.1
Cancer protein type: TSP
Effect of cancer mutation on protein: NA
Effect of active protein on cancer: NA
Number of cancer specimens: 20057
Percent of cancer specimens with mutations: 0.1
Normal role description: NA
Commentary on involvement of protein in cancer: Note: This gene is a metastasis suppressor gene that suppresses metastases of melanomas and breast carcinomas without affecting tumorigenicity!


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