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: LY6E
Gene Name: LY6E
Protein Full Name: Lymphocyte antigen 6E
Alias: Retinoic acid-induced gene E protein;Stem cell antigen 2;Thymic shared antigen 1
Mass (Da): 13507
Number AA: 131
UniProt ID: Q16553
Locus ID: 4061
COSMIC ID: LY6E
Gene location on chromosome: 8q24.3
Number of cancer specimens: 19625
Percent of cancer specimens with mutations: 0.09
Normal role description: Epinephrine secretion; organ growth; cell surface receptor linked signal transduction; in utero embryonic development; adrenal gland development; ventricular cardiac muscle morphogenesis; norepinephrine metabolic process.


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