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: SirT2
Gene Name: SIRT2
Protein Full Name: NAD-dependent deacetylase sirtuin-2
Alias: SIR2L; SIR2-like 2; SIR2-like protein 2; Sirtuin (silent mating type information regulation 2) 2
Mass (Da): 43182
Number AA: 389
UniProt ID: Q8IXJ6
Locus ID: 22933
COSMIC ID: SIRT2
Gene location on chromosome: 19q13.2
Number of cancer specimens: 19718
Percent of cancer specimens with mutations: 0.26


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