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: PARD6A
Gene Name: PARD6A
Protein Full Name: Partitioning defective 6 homolog alpha
Alias: PAR-6; PAR-6 alpha; Par-6 partitioning defective 6 alpha; PAR6A; PAR-6A; PAR6alpha; PAR6C; Tax interaction protein 40; TAX40; TIP-40
Mass (Da): 37388
Number AA: 346
UniProt ID: Q9NPB6
Locus ID: 50855
COSMIC ID: PARD6A
Gene location on chromosome: 16q22.1
Number of cancer specimens: 19625
Percent of cancer specimens with mutations: 0.2


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