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: SLC38A3
Gene Name: SLC38A3
Protein Full Name: Sodium-coupled neutral amino acid transporter 3
Alias: N-system amino acid transporter 1;Na(+)-coupled neutral amino acid transporter 3;Solute carrier family 38 member 3;System N amino acid transporter 1
Mass (Da): 55773
Number AA: 504
UniProt ID: Q99624
Locus ID: 10991
COSMIC ID: SLC38A3
Gene location on chromosome: 3p21.31
Number of cancer specimens: 19625
Percent of cancer specimens with mutations: 0.14


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