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: PYCARD
Gene Name: PYCARD
Protein Full Name: Apoptosis-associated speck-like protein containing
Alias: ASC; CARD5; Caspase recruitment domain 5; PYD and CARD domain containing; Target of methylation-induced silencing 1; TMS1; TMS-1
Mass (Da): 21627
Number AA: 195
UniProt ID: Q9ULZ3
Locus ID: 29108
COSMIC ID: PYCARD
Gene location on chromosome: 16p11.2
Cancer protein type: NA
Effect of cancer mutation on protein: NA
Effect of active protein on cancer: NA
Number of cancer specimens: 19718
Percent of cancer specimens with mutations: 0.1
Normal role description: NA


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