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: HDAC6
Gene Name: HDAC6
Protein Full Name: Histone deacetylase 6
Alias: FLJ16239; HD6; HDA6; JM21; KIAA0901
Mass (Da): 131419
Number AA: 1215
UniProt ID: Q9UBN7
Locus ID: 10013
COSMIC ID: HDAC6
Gene location on chromosome: Xp11.23
Number of cancer specimens: 19720
Percent of cancer specimens with mutations: 0.83
Normal role description: Deacetylate for histones.


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