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: TAF12
Gene Name: TAF12
Protein Full Name: Transcription initiation factor TFIID subunit 12
Alias: TAF12 RNA polymerase II, TATA box binding (TBP)-associated factor, 20 kD; TAF12 RNA polymerase II, TATA box binding protein (TBP)-associated factor; TAF12 RNA polymerase II, TATA box binding protein (TBP)-associated factor, 20kDa; TAF15; TAF2J; TAFII20; TAFII20/TAFII15; TAFII-20/TAFII-15; TATA box binding protein (TBP)-associated factor, RNA polymerase II, J, 20kD; Transcription initiation factor TFIID 20/15 kDa subunits
Mass (Da): 17924
Number AA: 161
UniProt ID: Q16514
Locus ID: 6883
COSMIC ID: TAF12
Gene location on chromosome: 1p35.3
Number of cancer specimens: 19625
Percent of cancer specimens with mutations: 0.13


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