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: KAT2A
Gene Name: KAT2A
Protein Full Name: Histone acetyltransferase KAT2A
Alias: GCN5; GCN5L2; GCNL2; General control of amino acid synthesis protein 5-like 2; HGCN5; Histone acetyltransferase GCN5; K (lysine) acetyltransferase 2A; PCAF-b; STAF97
Mass (Da): 93836
Number AA: 837
UniProt ID: Q92830
Locus ID: 2648
COSMIC ID: KAT2A
Gene location on chromosome: 17q21.2
Number of cancer specimens: 20058
Percent of cancer specimens with mutations: 0.62


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