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: CSPG4
Gene Name: CSPG4
Protein Full Name: Chondroitin sulfate proteoglycan 4
Alias: Chondroitin sulfate proteoglycan 4; Chondroitin sulfate proteoglycan NG2; CSPG4; HMW-MAA; MCSP; MCSPG; Melanoma chondroitin sulfate proteoglycan; Melanoma-associated chondroitin sulfate proteoglycan; MEL-CSPG; MSK16
Mass (Da): 250497
Number AA: 2322
UniProt ID: Q6UVK1
Locus ID: 1464
COSMIC ID: CSPG4
Gene location on chromosome: 15q24.2
Number of cancer specimens: 19717
Percent of cancer specimens with mutations: 1.42


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