SLC38A8

Solute carrier family 38 member 8 A6NNN8 S38A8_HUMAN
Protein Coding Chr 16 16q23.3 Swiss-Prot reviewed Entrez 146167
Mutations
322
CL 76 · Tissue 245
Samples
304
CL 74 · Tissue 229
Peptides
225
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
Mutations32276245
Samples30474229
Peptides22551182

Function

SLC38A8 · Solute carrier family 38 member 8

This gene encodes a putative sodium-dependent amino-acid/proton antiporter. The protein has eleven transmembrane domains, an extracellular N-terminus and an intracellular C-terminal tail. The protein is a member of the SLC38 sodium-coupled neutral amino acid transporter family of proteins. Mutations in this gene result in foveal hypoplasia with or without optic nerve misrouting and/or anterior segment dysgenesis. [provided by RefSeq, May 2014].

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
ENST00000299709 A6NNN8 322 225

Gene Properties

Type
Protein Coding
Chromosome
16
Cytoband
16q23.3
Entrez ID
Aliases
FHASDFVH2SNAT8

Recurrent Mutations

All 225 amino-acid changes on canonical ENST00000299709 · 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 SLC38A8 · 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 SLC38A8 – 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
4/40 10%
0/0 0%
Glioblastoma
3/98 3%
0/0 0%
Unknown
1/10 10%
0/29 0%
Endometrial Carcinoma
1/42 2%
12/612 2%
Non-Small Cell Lung Carcinoma
13/304 4%
15/1390 1%
Colorectal Carcinoma
8/143 6%
41/3239 1%
Gastric Carcinoma
8/74 11%
17/1809 1%
Melanoma
0/210 0%
25/1899 1%
Ewings Sarcoma
2/63 3%
1/262 0%
Cervical Carcinoma
2/35 6%
2/422 0%
Other Solid Cancers
2/94 2%
11/1515 1%
Squamous Cell Lung Carcinoma
1/57 2%
6/810 1%
Thyroid Gland Carcinoma
1/45 2%
12/1592 1%
Esophageal Carcinoma
0/23 0%
6/769 1%
Small Cell Lung Carcinoma
0/9 0%
5/752 1%
Other Sarcomas
1/69 1%
4/699 1%
Non-Cancerous
3/104 3%
3/830 0%
Ovarian Carcinoma
5/109 5%
2/998 0%
Pancreatic Carcinoma
3/89 3%
6/1611 0%
Germ Cell Tumour
0/25 0%
1/169 1%
Rhabdomyosarcoma
1/33 3%
0/171 0%
Osteosarcoma
1/45 2%
0/166 0%
Burkitts Lymphoma
1/32 3%
0/196 0%
Glioma
0/52 0%
9/2127 0%
Biliary Tract Carcinoma
0/54 0%
4/950 0%
Head and Neck Carcinoma
2/85 2%
4/1574 0%
Kidney Carcinoma
0/85 0%
7/1862 0%
Breast Carcinoma
2/144 1%
9/3264 0%
Hepatocellular Carcinoma
0/46 0%
7/2210 0%
Bladder Carcinoma
0/58 0%
3/956 0%

Mutation Distribution

Where SLC38A8 is mutated · all tissues, split by cell line vs tissue

Mutation counts by tissue
Mutation Distribution

How many mutations in SLC38A8 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 23 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 SLC38A8

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