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: ZNF384
Gene Name: ZNF384
Protein Full Name: Zinc finger protein 384
Alias: CAG repeat protein 1; CAGH1; CAGH1A; CAS-interacting zinc finger protein; CIZ; NMP4; NP; Nuclear matrix protein 4; Nuclear matrix transcription factor 4; TNRC1; Zinc finger protein 384 (CIZ/NMP4); ZN384
Mass (Da): 63091
Number AA: 576
UniProt ID: Q8TF68
Locus ID: 171017
COSMIC ID: ZNF384
Gene location on chromosome: 12p13.31
Cancer protein type: OP
Effect of cancer mutation on protein: GAIN
Effect of active protein on cancer: PROMOTES
Number of cancer specimens: 20237
Percent of cancer specimens with mutations: 0.48
Deregulated in translocations: TAF15; E2A; EWR1
Normal role description: ZNF384 is a transcriptional regulator of MMP1, MMP3, MMP7 and COL1A1. Translocation events are implicated in development of abnormal protein and oncogenesis.


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