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: MLL3
Gene Name: MLL3
Protein Full Name: Histone-lysine N-methyltransferase MLL3
Alias: HALR; Histone-lysine N-methyltransferase, H3 lysine-4 specific MLL3; KIAA1506; KMT2C; Myeloid/lymphoid or mixed-lineage leukemia 3; Myeloid/lymphoid or mixed-lineage leukemia protein 3 homologue
Mass (Da): 541370
Number AA: 4911
UniProt ID: Q8NEZ4
Locus ID: 58508
COSMIC ID: MLL3
Gene location on chromosome: 7q36.1
Cancer protein type: UNCLEAR
Effect of cancer mutation on protein: UNCLEAR
Effect of active protein on cancer: UNCLEAR
Number of cancer specimens: 21847
Percent of cancer specimens with mutations: 5.24
General distribution of mutations: Multi-site
Location of most mutations: Broad distribution of mutation sites with many point mutations, 1 insertion and 4 deletions across the entire protein, but no complex mutations.
Normal role description: Transcriptional co-activation.


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