KERA

Keratocan O60938 KERA_HUMAN
Protein Coding Chr 12 12q21.33 Swiss-Prot reviewed Entrez 11081
Mutations
322
CL 50 · Tissue 272
Samples
294
CL 49 · Tissue 245
Peptides
221
unique mutant peptides
Transcripts
1
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
Mutations32250272
Samples29449245
Peptides22131195

Function

KERA · Keratocan

The protein encoded by this gene is a keratan sulfate proteoglycan that is involved in corneal transparency. Defects in this gene are a cause of autosomal recessive cornea plana 2 (CNA2).[provided by RefSeq, May 2010].

Isoforms & Proteins

1 transcript · 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
ENST00000266719 O60938 322 221

Gene Properties

Type
Protein Coding
Chromosome
12
Cytoband
12q21.33
Entrez ID
Aliases
CNA2KTNSLRR2B

Recurrent Mutations

All 221 amino-acid changes on canonical ENST00000266719 · 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 KERA · 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 KERA – 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
Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia
2/25 8%
0/0 0%
T-Cell Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma
1/26 4%
0/0 0%
Melanoma
6/210 3%
58/1899 3%
Endometrial Carcinoma
1/42 2%
13/612 2%
Glioblastoma
2/98 2%
0/0 0%
Burkitts Lymphoma
4/32 12%
0/196 0%
Non-Small Cell Lung Carcinoma
9/304 3%
14/1390 1%
Other Solid Cancers
3/94 3%
18/1515 1%
Neuroendocrine Tumour
5/154 3%
4/577 1%
Acute Myeloid Leukemia
1/90 1%
0/0 0%
Colorectal Carcinoma
1/143 1%
31/3239 1%
Squamous Cell Lung Carcinoma
0/57 0%
8/810 1%
Mesothelioma
2/62 3%
0/165 0%
Small Cell Lung Carcinoma
0/9 0%
6/752 1%
Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumour
0/0 0%
1/133 1%
Glioma
0/52 0%
16/2127 1%
Bladder Carcinoma
0/58 0%
7/956 1%
Cervical Carcinoma
1/35 3%
2/422 0%
Head and Neck Carcinoma
1/85 1%
8/1574 1%
Rhabdomyosarcoma
1/33 3%
0/171 0%
Hepatocellular Carcinoma
0/46 0%
10/2210 0%
Esophageal Carcinoma
0/23 0%
3/769 0%
Gastric Carcinoma
0/74 0%
7/1809 0%
Esophageal Squamous Cell Carcinoma
0/51 0%
8/2550 0%
Kidney Carcinoma
2/85 2%
4/1862 0%
Plasma Cell Myeloma
0/44 0%
1/305 0%
Ovarian Carcinoma
1/109 1%
2/998 0%
Pancreatic Carcinoma
2/89 2%
2/1611 0%
Medulloblastoma
0/0 0%
1/450 0%
Non-Cancerous
0/104 0%
2/830 0%

Mutation Distribution

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

Mutation counts by tissue
Mutation Distribution

How many mutations in KERA 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 21 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 322 mutations in KERA

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