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: | PTCH2 |
| Gene Name: | PTCH2 |
| Protein Full Name: | Protein patched homolog 2 |
| Mass (Da): | 130544 |
| Number AA: | 1203 |
| UniProt ID: | Q9Y6C5 |
| Locus ID: | 8643 |
| COSMIC ID: | PTCH2 |
| Gene location on chromosome: | 1p34.1 |
| Cancer protein type: | UNCLEAR |
| Effect of cancer mutation on protein: | UNCLEAR |
| Effect of active protein on cancer: | UNCLEAR |
| Number of cancer specimens: | 20394 |
| Percent of cancer specimens with mutations: | 0.95 |
| Mutations observed as inherited: | NA |
| Found in amplified chromosomal regions in human cancers: | NA |
| Deregulated in translocations: | NA |
| Deregulated by viral insertion: | NA |
| Transduced into viral genome: | NA |
| Gene undergoes hypermethylation: | NA |
| Normal role description: | PTCH2 is a receptor for Sonic hedgehog (SHH), a protein required for epidermal development. Defects in the protein have been associated with medulloblastoma and sporadic basal cell carcinoma. However, there is minimal evidence to back up a tumor-suppressing role of PTCH2. |