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: DDX1
Gene Name: DDX1
Protein Full Name: ATP-dependent RNA helicase DDX1
Alias: DBP-RB; DEAD (Asp-Glu-Ala-Asp) box polypeptide 1; DEAD box protein 1; DEAD box protein retinoblastoma; EC 3.6.1.-
Mass (Da): 82432
Number AA: 740
UniProt ID: Q92499
Locus ID: 1653
COSMIC ID: DDX1
Gene location on chromosome: 2p24.3
Number of cancer specimens: 19742
Percent of cancer specimens with mutations: 0.62
Normal role description: Implicated in alteration of RNA secondary structure such as translation initiation, nuclear and mitochondrial splicing and ribosome and spliceosome assembly


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