TP53 (Gene ID: 7157)

Basic Information
Gene Symbol: TP53
Description: tumor protein p53
Organism: Homo sapiens
Gene Type: genomic
Genomic Location
Chromosome: 17
Map Location: 17p13.1
Other Names
BCC7 BMFS5 LFS1 P53 TRP53
Gene Summary

This gene encodes a tumor suppressor protein containing transcriptional activation, DNA binding, and oligomerization domains. The encoded protein responds to diverse cellular stresses to regulate expression of target genes, thereby inducing cell cycle arrest, apoptosis, senescence, DNA repair, or changes in metabolism. Mutations in this gene are associated with a variety of human cancers, including hereditary cancers such as Li-Fraumeni syndrome. Alternative splicing of this gene and the use of alternate promoters result in multiple transcript variants and isoforms. Additional isoforms have also been shown to result from the use of alternate translation initiation codons from identical transcript variants (PMIDs: 12032546, 20937277). [provided by RefSeq, Dec 2016]

Source: NCBI RefSeq
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7157
Gene ID
5
Aliases
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