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: MAVS
Gene Name: MAVS
Protein Full Name: Mitochondrial antiviral-signaling protein
Alias: CARD adapter inducing interferon-beta; CARD adaptor inducing IFN-beta; Cardif; IFN-B promoter stimulator 1; Interferon-beta promoter stimulator 1; Interferon-beta promoter stimulator protein 1; IPS1; IPS-1; KIAA1271; Mitochondrial antiviral signaling; Mitochondrial antiviral signaling protein; Mitochondrial anti-viral signaling protein; NF-kappa-B-activating 031N; Virus-induced signaling adapter; Virus-induced signaling adaptor; VISA
Mass (Da): 56528
Number AA: 540
UniProt ID: Q7Z434
Locus ID: 57506
COSMIC ID: MAVS
Gene location on chromosome: 20p13
Number of cancer specimens: 19625
Percent of cancer specimens with mutations: 0.4


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