BACE1

Beta-secretase 1 P56817 BACE1_HUMAN
Protein Coding Chr 11 11q23.3 Swiss-Prot reviewed Entrez 23621
Mutations
1,172
CL 145 · Tissue 1,006
Samples
204
CL 41 · Tissue 158
Peptides
184
unique mutant peptides
Transcripts
7
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
Mutations1,1721451,006
Samples20441158
Peptides18431152

Function

BACE1 · Beta-secretase 1

This gene encodes a member of the peptidase A1 family of aspartic proteases. Alternative splicing results in multiple transcript variants, at least one of which encodes a preproprotein that is proteolytically processed to generate the mature protease. This transmembrane protease catalyzes the first step in the formation of amyloid beta peptide from amyloid precursor protein. Amyloid beta peptides are the main constituent of amyloid beta plaques, which accumulate in the brains of human Alzheimer's disease patients. [provided by RefSeq, Nov 2015].

Isoforms & Proteins

7 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
ENST00000313005 P56817 210 161
ENST00000513780 P56817-2 182 147
ENST00000528053 E9PJG7* 176 142
ENST00000445823 P56817-3 164 134
ENST00000428381 P56817-4 159 129
ENST00000392937 P56817-5 143 115
ENST00000510630 P56817-6 138 110

Gene Properties

Type
Protein Coding
Chromosome
11
Cytoband
11q23.3
Entrez ID
Aliases
ASP2BACEHSPC104

Recurrent Mutations

All 161 amino-acid changes on canonical ENST00000313005 · 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 BACE1 · 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 BACE1 – 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
0/42 0%
15/612 2%
Hodgkins Lymphoma
2/16 12%
0/122 0%
Colorectal Carcinoma
15/143 10%
32/3239 1%
Cervical Carcinoma
0/35 0%
5/422 1%
Burkitts Lymphoma
2/32 6%
0/196 0%
Melanoma
0/210 0%
15/1899 1%
Thyroid Gland Carcinoma
3/45 7%
8/1592 0%
Hepatocellular Carcinoma
1/46 2%
14/2210 1%
Non-Small Cell Lung Carcinoma
1/304 0%
8/1390 1%
Other Sarcomas
0/69 0%
4/699 1%
Germ Cell Tumour
0/25 0%
1/169 1%
Biliary Tract Carcinoma
0/54 0%
5/950 1%
Gastric Carcinoma
1/74 1%
8/1809 0%
Ovarian Carcinoma
3/109 3%
2/998 0%
Squamous Cell Lung Carcinoma
1/57 2%
2/810 0%
Glioma
1/52 2%
6/2127 0%
Ewings Sarcoma
0/63 0%
1/262 0%
Other Solid Cancers
0/94 0%
5/1515 0%
Plasma Cell Myeloma
1/44 2%
0/305 0%
Prostate Carcinoma
0/13 0%
6/2105 0%
B-Cell Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma
4/88 5%
3/2534 0%
Small Cell Lung Carcinoma
0/9 0%
2/752 0%
Esophageal Carcinoma
0/23 0%
2/769 0%
Non-Cancerous
0/104 0%
2/830 0%
Pancreatic Carcinoma
0/89 0%
3/1611 0%
Esophageal Squamous Cell Carcinoma
0/51 0%
3/2550 0%
Head and Neck Carcinoma
0/85 0%
2/1574 0%
Breast Carcinoma
0/144 0%
4/3264 0%
Kidney Carcinoma
0/85 0%
2/1862 0%

Mutation Distribution

Where BACE1 is mutated · all tissues, split by cell line vs tissue

Mutation counts by tissue
Mutation Distribution

How many mutations in BACE1 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 1,172 mutations in BACE1

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