STARD4

StAR related lipid transfer domain containing 4 Q96DR4 STAR4_HUMAN
Protein Coding Chr 5 5q22.1 Swiss-Prot reviewed Entrez 134429
Mutations
382
CL 30 · Tissue 334
Samples
135
CL 13 · Tissue 116
Peptides
105
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
Mutations38230334
Samples13513116
Peptides105996

Function

STARD4 · StAR related lipid transfer domain containing 4

Cholesterol homeostasis is regulated, at least in part, by sterol regulatory element (SRE)-binding proteins (e.g., SREBP1; MIM 184756) and by liver X receptors (e.g., LXRA; MIM 602423). Upon sterol depletion, LXRs are inactive and SREBPs are cleaved, after which they bind promoter SREs and activate genes involved in cholesterol biosynthesis and uptake. Sterol transport is mediated by vesicles or by soluble protein carriers, such as steroidogenic acute regulatory protein (STAR; MIM 600617). STAR is homologous to a family of proteins containing a 200- to 210-amino acid STAR-related lipid transfer (START) domain, including STARD4 (Soccio et al., 2002 [PubMed 12011452]).[supplied by OMIM, Mar 2008].

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
ENST00000296632 Q96DR4 136 92
ENST00000505803 Q96DR4 126 87
ENST00000502322 Q96DR4-2 74 55
ENST00000509887 D6RDM5* 23 18
ENST00000512160 D6RDM5* 23 18

Gene Properties

Type
Protein Coding
Chromosome
5
Cytoband
5q22.1
Entrez ID

Recurrent Mutations

All 92 amino-acid changes on canonical ENST00000296632 · 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 STARD4 · 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 STARD4 – 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%
T-Cell Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma
1/26 4%
0/0 0%
Endometrial Carcinoma
1/42 2%
12/612 2%
Melanoma
7/210 3%
32/1899 2%
Squamous Cell Lung Carcinoma
0/57 0%
8/810 1%
Gastric Carcinoma
0/74 0%
11/1809 1%
Non-Small Cell Lung Carcinoma
0/304 0%
8/1390 1%
Mesothelioma
0/62 0%
1/165 1%
Cervical Carcinoma
1/35 3%
1/422 0%
Burkitts Lymphoma
0/32 0%
1/196 1%
Colorectal Carcinoma
0/143 0%
12/3239 0%
Ovarian Carcinoma
0/109 0%
3/998 0%
Breast Carcinoma
0/144 0%
9/3264 0%
Head and Neck Carcinoma
0/85 0%
4/1574 0%
Non-Cancerous
0/104 0%
2/830 0%
Bladder Carcinoma
0/58 0%
2/956 0%
Other Solid Cancers
1/94 1%
2/1515 0%
Hepatocellular Carcinoma
0/46 0%
4/2210 0%
Esophageal Squamous Cell Carcinoma
0/51 0%
4/2550 0%
Other Sarcomas
0/69 0%
1/699 0%
Biliary Tract Carcinoma
0/54 0%
1/950 0%
B-Cell Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma
0/88 0%
2/2534 0%
Prostate Carcinoma
0/13 0%
1/2105 0%
B-Lymphoblastic Leukemia
0/55 0%
1/2640 0%

Mutation Distribution

Where STARD4 is mutated · all tissues, split by cell line vs tissue

Mutation counts by tissue
Mutation Distribution

How many mutations in STARD4 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 382 mutations in STARD4

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