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: MCM2
Gene Name: MCM2
Protein Full Name: DNA replication licensing factor MCM2
Alias: BM28; CDCL1; DNA replication licensing factor MCM2; KIAA0030; MCMD2; Minichromosome maintenance protein 2 homologue
Mass (Da): 101896
Number AA: 904
UniProt ID: P49736
Locus ID: 4171
COSMIC ID: MCM2
Gene location on chromosome: 3q21.3
Cancer protein type: UNCLEAR
Effect of cancer mutation on protein: UNCLEAR
Effect of active protein on cancer: UNCLEAR
Number of cancer specimens: 19535
Percent of cancer specimens with mutations: 0.79
Normal role description: Initiation of eukaryotic genome replication.


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