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: NBAS
Gene Name: NBAS
Protein Full Name: Neuroblastoma-amplified sequence
Alias: Neuroblastoma amplified sequence; Neuroblastoma-amplified
Mass (Da): 268571
Number AA: 2371
UniProt ID: A2RRP1
Locus ID: 51594
COSMIC ID: NBAS
Gene location on chromosome: 2p24.3
Cancer protein type: ?OP
Effect of cancer mutation on protein: UNCLEAR
Effect of active protein on cancer: PROMOTES
Number of cancer specimens: 19626
Percent of cancer specimens with mutations: 1.92
Normal role description: Broadly expressed, with highest levels in heart and skeletal muscle, and lowest levels in liver, small intestine and thymus. Role in normal cell not well understood. Up-regulated together with N-myc in some neuroblastoma cell lines


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