PEMT

Phosphatidylethanolamine N-methyltransferase Q9UBM1 PEMT_HUMAN
Protein Coding Chr 17 17p11.2 Swiss-Prot reviewed Entrez 10400
Mutations
562
CL 74 · Tissue 473
Samples
126
CL 28 · Tissue 93
Peptides
109
unique mutant peptides
Transcripts
5
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
Mutations56274473
Samples1262893
Peptides1092086

Function

PEMT · Phosphatidylethanolamine N-methyltransferase

Phosphatidylcholine (PC) is the most abundant mammalian phospholipid. This gene encodes an enzyme which converts phosphatidylethanolamine to phosphatidylcholine by sequential methylation in the liver. Another distinct synthetic pathway in nucleated cells converts intracellular choline to phosphatidylcholine by a three-step process. The protein isoforms encoded by this gene localize to the endoplasmic reticulum and mitochondria-associated membranes. Alternate splicing of this gene results in multiple transcript variants encoding different isoforms. [provided by RefSeq, May 2012].

Isoforms & Proteins

5 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
ENST00000255389 Q9UBM1-2 127 76
ENST00000395781 Q9UBM1-3 112 72
ENST00000395782 Q9UBM1 110 70
ENST00000435340 D3YTC7* 108 68
ENST00000395783 Q9UBM1 105 65

Gene Properties

Type
Protein Coding
Chromosome
17
Cytoband
17p11.2
Entrez ID
Aliases
PEAMTPEMPTPEMT2PLMT

Recurrent Mutations

All 76 amino-acid changes on canonical ENST00000255389 · 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 PEMT · 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 PEMT – 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
1/40 2%
0/0 0%
Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumour
0/0 0%
3/133 2%
Glioblastoma
2/98 2%
0/0 0%
Non-Small Cell Lung Carcinoma
8/304 3%
7/1390 0%
Endometrial Carcinoma
0/42 0%
5/612 1%
Colorectal Carcinoma
9/143 6%
15/3239 0%
Cervical Carcinoma
0/35 0%
3/422 1%
Gastric Carcinoma
0/74 0%
10/1809 1%
Germ Cell Tumour
1/25 4%
0/169 0%
Bladder Carcinoma
1/58 2%
4/956 0%
Melanoma
0/210 0%
10/1899 1%
Non-Cancerous
0/104 0%
4/830 0%
Other Solid Cancers
0/94 0%
5/1515 0%
Prostate Carcinoma
2/13 15%
4/2105 0%
Other Sarcomas
2/69 3%
0/699 0%
Kidney Carcinoma
0/85 0%
4/1862 0%
Ovarian Carcinoma
0/109 0%
2/998 0%
Thyroid Gland Carcinoma
0/45 0%
3/1592 0%
Glioma
0/52 0%
3/2127 0%
Small Cell Lung Carcinoma
1/9 11%
0/752 0%
Hepatocellular Carcinoma
0/46 0%
3/2210 0%
Esophageal Carcinoma
0/23 0%
1/769 0%
Other Blood Cancers
0/61 0%
3/2725 0%
Biliary Tract Carcinoma
0/54 0%
1/950 0%
Breast Carcinoma
0/144 0%
3/3264 0%
B-Lymphoblastic Leukemia
1/55 2%
1/2640 0%
Neuroblastoma
0/87 0%
1/1331 0%
Pancreatic Carcinoma
0/89 0%
1/1611 0%
B-Cell Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma
0/88 0%
1/2534 0%
Esophageal Squamous Cell Carcinoma
0/51 0%
1/2550 0%

Mutation Distribution

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

Mutation counts by tissue
Mutation Distribution

How many mutations in PEMT 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 562 mutations in PEMT

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