GAPDH

Glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase P04406 G3P_HUMAN
Protein Coding Chr 12 12p13.31 Swiss-Prot reviewed Entrez 2597
Mutations
788
CL 92 · Tissue 581
Samples
147
CL 35 · Tissue 103
Peptides
135
unique mutant peptides
Transcripts
6
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
Mutations78892581
Samples14735103
Peptides13522102

Function

GAPDH · Glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase

This gene encodes a member of the glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase protein family. The encoded protein has been identified as a moonlighting protein based on its ability to perform mechanistically distinct functions. The product of this gene catalyzes an important energy-yielding step in carbohydrate metabolism, the reversible oxidative phosphorylation of glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate in the presence of inorganic phosphate and nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD). The encoded protein has additionally been identified to have uracil DNA glycosylase activity in the nucleus. Also, this protein contains a peptide that has antimicrobial activity against E. coli, P. aeruginosa, and C. albicans. Studies of a similar protein in mouse have assigned a variety of additional functions including nitrosylation of nuclear proteins, the regulation of mRNA stability, and acting as a transferrin receptor on the cell surface of macrophage. Many pseudogenes similar to this locus are present in the human genome. Alternative splicing results in multiple transcript variants. [provided by RefSeq, Nov 2014].

Isoforms & Proteins

6 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
ENST00000229239 P04406 164 127
ENST00000396859 P04406 139 118
ENST00000396861 P04406 139 118
ENST00000396858 P04406-2 120 101
ENST00000619601 P04406-2 120 101
ENST00000396856 E7EUT5* 106 89

Gene Properties

Type
Protein Coding
Chromosome
12
Cytoband
12p13.31
Entrez ID
Aliases
G3PDGAPDHEL-S-162eP

Recurrent Mutations

All 127 amino-acid changes on canonical ENST00000229239 · 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 GAPDH · 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 GAPDH – 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
2/40 5%
0/0 0%
Plasma Cell Myeloma
2/44 5%
3/305 1%
Mesothelioma
2/62 3%
1/165 1%
Endometrial Carcinoma
3/42 7%
5/612 1%
Melanoma
6/210 3%
18/1899 1%
Non-Small Cell Lung Carcinoma
6/304 2%
9/1390 1%
Hodgkins Lymphoma
0/16 0%
1/122 1%
Gastric Carcinoma
0/74 0%
11/1809 1%
Rhabdomyosarcoma
0/33 0%
1/171 1%
Bladder Carcinoma
0/58 0%
5/956 1%
Colorectal Carcinoma
6/143 4%
10/3239 0%
Squamous Cell Lung Carcinoma
0/57 0%
4/810 0%
Neuroendocrine Tumour
2/154 1%
1/577 0%
Thyroid Gland Carcinoma
0/45 0%
6/1592 0%
Ewings Sarcoma
0/63 0%
1/262 0%
Head and Neck Carcinoma
1/85 1%
4/1574 0%
Ovarian Carcinoma
0/109 0%
3/998 0%
Small Cell Lung Carcinoma
0/9 0%
2/752 0%
Cervical Carcinoma
0/35 0%
1/422 0%
Medulloblastoma
0/0 0%
1/450 0%
Biliary Tract Carcinoma
0/54 0%
2/950 0%
Esophageal Squamous Cell Carcinoma
0/51 0%
5/2550 0%
Glioma
0/52 0%
4/2127 0%
Breast Carcinoma
2/144 1%
4/3264 0%
Pancreatic Carcinoma
0/89 0%
3/1611 0%
Neuroblastoma
0/87 0%
2/1331 0%
Other Solid Cancers
0/94 0%
2/1515 0%
Non-Cancerous
0/104 0%
1/830 0%
Kidney Carcinoma
1/85 1%
1/1862 0%
B-Lymphoblastic Leukemia
2/55 4%
0/2640 0%

Mutation Distribution

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

Mutation counts by tissue
Mutation Distribution

How many mutations in GAPDH 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

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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 788 mutations in GAPDH

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