AGO2

Argonaute RISC catalytic component 2 Q9UKV8 AGO2_HUMAN
Protein Coding Chr 8 8q24.3 Swiss-Prot reviewed Entrez 27161
Mutations
831
CL 142 · Tissue 680
Samples
421
CL 81 · Tissue 334
Peptides
329
unique mutant peptides
Transcripts
2
isoforms mutated

Stats by Source

Total, split by cell line (COSMIC CL / DepMap / PubMed) vs tissue (COSMIC primary tissue)

How the counts split by source
Stats by Source

Total = all mutations for this gene across every source.

Cell line = COSMIC Cell Lines Project + DepMap + PubMed.

Tissue = COSMIC primary-tissue (patient tumour) samples.

Total can exceed cell line + tissue: COSMIC tissue-derived models sit only in global, and a peptide can be shared across both.

TotalCell lineTissue
Mutations831142680
Samples42181334
Peptides32956277

Function

AGO2 · Argonaute RISC catalytic component 2

This gene encodes a member of the Argonaute family of proteins which play a role in RNA interference. The encoded protein is highly basic, and contains a PAZ domain and a PIWI domain. It may interact with dicer1 and play a role in short-interfering-RNA-mediated gene silencing. Multiple transcript variants encoding different isoforms have been found for this gene. [provided by RefSeq, Sep 2009].

Isoforms & Proteins

2 transcripts · UniProt mapping is sequence-verified (AA-safe)

About the isoform mapping
Isoforms & Proteins

Each Ensembl transcript (ENST) this gene is mutated on, with its matched UniProt accession.

The mapping is sequence-verified: the UniProt sequence is identical to the transcript translation, so amino-acid positions line up exactly. A * marks an unreviewed (TrEMBL) entry.

Counts are mutations and unique mutant peptides on each transcript.

TranscriptUniProtMutationsPeptides
ENST00000220592 Q9UKV8 452 318
ENST00000519980 Q9UKV8-2 379 289

Gene Properties

Type
Protein Coding
Chromosome
8
Cytoband
8q24.3
Entrez ID
Aliases
CASC7EIF2C2LESKRESLINC00980PPDQ10

Recurrent Mutations

All 318 amino-acid changes on canonical ENST00000220592 · needle height = samples · drag the mini-map to zoom

What this lollipop shows
Recurrent Mutations

A lollipop / needle plot – the standard way to show recurrent mutations along a protein (as used by cBioPortal and MutationMapper).

X-axis = amino-acid position in the protein.

Needle height & head size = how often that exact amino-acid change was observed (its recurrence). Tall/large heads are mutational hotspots.

The most recurrent changes are labelled; hover any needle for the change, position and counts.

Mutation frequency across cancer types

% of samples with a missense/complex mutation in AGO2 · cell line vs tissue

How this frequency is counted
Cancer-type mutation frequency

For each cancer type, the fraction of samples that carry at least one missense/complex mutation anywhere in AGO2 – counted as distinct samples (a sample counts once no matter how many mutations it has).

Split into cell line and tissue; each cell shows mutated / total and the percentage. Cohorts with <20 samples are omitted. Ordered by combined frequency.

Cancer typeCell linesTissue samples
T-Lymphoblastic Leukemia
5/40 12%
0/0 0%
Endometrial Carcinoma
5/42 12%
30/612 5%
Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia
1/25 4%
0/0 0%
Unknown
0/10 0%
1/29 3%
Melanoma
6/210 3%
46/1899 2%
Colorectal Carcinoma
19/143 13%
53/3239 2%
Non-Small Cell Lung Carcinoma
10/304 3%
25/1390 2%
Oral Cavity Carcinoma
1/54 2%
0/0 0%
Gastric Carcinoma
2/74 3%
30/1809 2%
Pheochromocytoma and Paraganglioma
0/0 0%
1/71 1%
Cervical Carcinoma
0/35 0%
6/422 1%
Ovarian Carcinoma
8/109 7%
5/998 0%
Other Solid Cancers
1/94 1%
17/1515 1%
Bladder Carcinoma
2/58 3%
9/956 1%
Glioblastoma
1/98 1%
0/0 0%
Esophageal Squamous Cell Carcinoma
0/51 0%
23/2550 1%
Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumour
0/0 0%
1/133 1%
Head and Neck Carcinoma
2/85 2%
10/1574 1%
Esophageal Carcinoma
0/23 0%
5/769 1%
Hepatocellular Carcinoma
0/46 0%
14/2210 1%
Plasma Cell Myeloma
2/44 5%
0/305 0%
Thyroid Gland Carcinoma
0/45 0%
9/1592 1%
Non-Cancerous
2/104 2%
3/830 0%
Breast Carcinoma
3/144 2%
15/3264 0%
Germ Cell Tumour
0/25 0%
1/169 1%
Other Sarcomas
2/69 3%
2/699 0%
Squamous Cell Lung Carcinoma
2/57 4%
2/810 0%
Mesothelioma
1/62 2%
0/165 0%
Wilms Tumour
0/5 0%
2/474 0%
Neuroendocrine Tumour
2/154 1%
1/577 0%

Mutation Distribution

Where AGO2 is mutated · all tissues, split by cell line vs tissue

Mutation counts by tissue
Mutation Distribution

How many mutations in AGO2 were found in each tissue, across the whole database.

Each bar is a tissue (cell-line and tissue names are merged to the standard tissue), split into cell line and tissue (patient tumour) contributions.

This shows the cancer-context where this gene is recurrently altered.

GTEx Expression

Median TPM across 54 healthy tissues

GTEx Portal ↗
About the expression data
GTEx Expression

Median gene expression (TPM) in normal, non-cancer human tissues from the GTEx project.

Useful for judging tumour specificity – a strong neoantigen target ideally comes from a gene with low expression in healthy tissues.

Scroll or drag the mini-axis below the chart to browse all tissues.

Mutations

All 831 mutations in AGO2

About the mutation list
Mutations

Every mutation record for this gene, across all samples and sources.

The Sample column links to the cell line (cell-line samples) or the tissue type (tissue samples).

Use the Type / Source filters, the search box, and column sorting to explore; each CAN-IMMUNE ID opens the full mutation & peptide view.

IDSampleTranscriptAA Change CDSTypeSourceMutant PeptideWild-type Peptide