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: | EEF1A1 |
| Gene Name: | EEF1A1 |
| Protein Full Name: | Elongation factor 1-alpha 1 |
| Alias: | EEF1A; EF11; EF1A; EF1A1; EF-1-alpha-1; EF-Tu; Elongation factor 1 A-1; Elongation factor 1-alpha 1; Elongation factor Tu; Eukaryotic translation elongation factor 1 alpha 1; LENG7 |
| Mass (Da): | 50141 |
| Number AA: | 462 |
| UniProt ID: | Q8IUB0 |
| Locus ID: | 1915 |
| COSMIC ID: | EEF1A1 |
| Gene location on chromosome: | 6q13 |
| Number of cancer specimens: | 19717 |
| Percent of cancer specimens with mutations: | 0.56 |
| Normal role description: | Responsible for enzymatic delivery of aminoacyl t-RNAs to the ribosomes. |