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: TAOK2
Gene Name: TAOK2
Protein Full Name: Thousand and one amino acid protein 2
Alias: EC 2.7.11.1; KIAA0881; MAP3K17; Prostate-derived STE20-like kinase 1; PSK; PSK1; PSK-1; Serine/threonine-protein kinase TAO2; TAO kinase 2; TAO1; TAOK2
Mass (Da): 138251
Number AA: 1235
UniProt ID: Q9UL54
Locus ID: 9344
COSMIC ID: TAOK2
Gene location on chromosome: 16p11.2
Number of cancer specimens: 20016
Percent of cancer specimens with mutations: 0.78


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