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: BECN1
Gene Name: BECN1
Protein Full Name: Beclin-1
Alias: Coiled-coil myosin-like BCL2-interacting; Coiled-coil myosin-like BCL2-interacting protein; GT197; VPS30
Mass (Da): 51896
Number AA: 450
UniProt ID: Q14457
Locus ID: 8678
COSMIC ID: BECN1
Gene location on chromosome: 17q21.3
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: 0.24
Normal role description: NA


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