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: SLC44A4
Gene Name: SLC44A4
Protein Full Name: Choline transporter-like protein 4
Alias: C6orf29; CTL4; NG22; Solute carrier family 44, 4
Mass (Da): 79236
Number AA: 710
UniProt ID: Q53GD3
Locus ID: 80736
COSMIC ID: SLC44A4
Gene location on chromosome: 6p21.3
Cancer protein type: UNCLEAR
Effect of cancer mutation on protein: UNCLEAR
Effect of active protein on cancer: UNCLEAR
Number of cancer specimens: 19688
Percent of cancer specimens with mutations: 0.59
Normal role description: May be a sodium-dependent transmembrane transport protein, which is involved in uptake of choline by cholinergic neurons.


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