MCL1

MCL1 apoptosis regulator, BCL2 family member Q07820 MCL1_HUMAN
Protein Coding Chr 1 1q21.2 Swiss-Prot reviewed Entrez 4170
Mutations
286
CL 43 · Tissue 239
Samples
130
CL 24 · Tissue 103
Peptides
142
unique mutant peptides
Transcripts
4
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
Mutations28643239
Samples13024103
Peptides14222117

Function

MCL1 · MCL1 apoptosis regulator, BCL2 family member

This gene encodes an anti-apoptotic protein, which is a member of the Bcl-2 family. Alternative splicing results in multiple transcript variants. The longest gene product (isoform 1) enhances cell survival by inhibiting apoptosis while the alternatively spliced shorter gene products (isoform 2 and isoform 3) promote apoptosis and are death-inducing. [provided by RefSeq, Oct 2010].

Isoforms & Proteins

4 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
ENST00000369026 Q07820 128 112
ENST00000307940 Q07820-2 91 83
ENST00000620947 A0A087WT64* 66 62
ENST00000678770 Q07820 1 1

Gene Properties

Type
Protein Coding
Chromosome
1
Cytoband
1q21.2
Entrez ID
Aliases
BCL2L3EATMCL1-ESMCL1LMCL1SMcl-1

Recurrent Mutations

All 112 amino-acid changes on canonical ENST00000369026 · 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 MCL1 · 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 MCL1 – 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%
Burkitts Lymphoma
1/32 3%
5/196 3%
Hodgkins Lymphoma
0/16 0%
2/122 2%
Chondrosarcoma
0/14 0%
1/75 1%
Acute Myeloid Leukemia
1/90 1%
0/0 0%
Endometrial Carcinoma
2/42 5%
4/612 1%
Melanoma
0/210 0%
16/1899 1%
Non-Small Cell Lung Carcinoma
4/304 1%
6/1390 0%
Squamous Cell Lung Carcinoma
0/57 0%
4/810 0%
B-Cell Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma
5/88 6%
6/2534 0%
Bladder Carcinoma
0/58 0%
4/956 0%
Colorectal Carcinoma
3/143 2%
10/3239 0%
Gastric Carcinoma
0/74 0%
6/1809 0%
Other Solid Cancers
0/94 0%
5/1515 0%
Ewings Sarcoma
1/63 2%
0/262 0%
Head and Neck Carcinoma
1/85 1%
4/1574 0%
Hepatocellular Carcinoma
0/46 0%
6/2210 0%
Neuroendocrine Tumour
1/154 1%
1/577 0%
Small Cell Lung Carcinoma
0/9 0%
2/752 0%
Esophageal Carcinoma
0/23 0%
2/769 0%
Glioma
2/52 4%
3/2127 0%
Cervical Carcinoma
0/35 0%
1/422 0%
Esophageal Squamous Cell Carcinoma
0/51 0%
5/2550 0%
Ovarian Carcinoma
0/109 0%
2/998 0%
Other Blood Cancers
0/61 0%
4/2725 0%
Biliary Tract Carcinoma
0/54 0%
1/950 0%
Prostate Carcinoma
0/13 0%
2/2105 0%
Pancreatic Carcinoma
0/89 0%
1/1611 0%
Thyroid Gland Carcinoma
0/45 0%
1/1592 0%
Kidney Carcinoma
0/85 0%
1/1862 0%

Mutation Distribution

Where MCL1 is mutated · all tissues, split by cell line vs tissue

Mutation counts by tissue
Mutation Distribution

How many mutations in MCL1 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 286 mutations in MCL1

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