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: EHMT2
Gene Name: EHMT2
Protein Full Name: Euchromatic histone-lysine N-methyltransferase 2
Alias: H3-K9-HMTase 3; Histone H3-K9 methyltransferase 3; Histone-lysine N-methyltransferase, H3 lysine-9 specific 3; HLA-B-associated transcript 8; Lysine N-methyltransferase 1C; Protein G9a
Mass (Da): 138770
Number AA: 1267
UniProt ID: Q96KQ7
Locus ID: 10919
COSMIC ID: EHMT2
Gene location on chromosome: 6p21.31
Number of cancer specimens: 19625
Percent of cancer specimens with mutations: 0.57


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