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: JAZF1
Gene Name: JAZF1
Protein Full Name: Juxtaposed with another zinc finger protein 1
Alias: DKFZp761K2222; JAZF zinc finger 1; Juxtaposed with another zinc finger 1; Juxtaposed with another zinc finger gene 1; Juxtaposed with another zinc finger protein 1: TAK1-interacting protein 27: Zinc finger protein 802: Juxtaposed with another zinc finger protein 1: TAK1-interacting protein 27: Zinc finger protein 802; TAK1-interacting 27; TAK1-interacting protein 27; TIP27; Zinc finger protein 802; ZNF802
Mass (Da): 27079
Number AA: 243
UniProt ID: Q86VZ6
Locus ID: 221895
COSMIC ID: JAZF1
Gene location on chromosome: 7p15.2
Cancer protein type: OP
Effect of cancer mutation on protein: GAIN
Effect of active protein on cancer: PROMOTES
Number of cancer specimens: 20433
Percent of cancer specimens with mutations: 0.16
Deregulated in translocations: SUZ12; JJAZ1; PHF1
Normal role description: JAZF1 is a regulator of transcription. It is a transcriptional repressor of TAK1. Chromosome translocation events lead to fusion genes that promote oncogenesis.


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