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: PIWIL1
Gene Name: PIWIL1
Protein Full Name: Piwi-like protein 1
Alias: HIWI; PIWI; Piwi-like 1; PIWL1
Mass (Da): 98603
Number AA: 861
UniProt ID: Q96J94
Locus ID: 9271
COSMIC ID: PIWIL1
Gene location on chromosome: 12q24.33
Number of cancer specimens: 19675
Percent of cancer specimens with mutations: 1.2


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