ZNF879

Zinc finger protein 879 B4DU55 ZN879_HUMAN
Protein Coding Chr 5 5q35.3 Swiss-Prot reviewed Entrez 345462
Mutations
299
CL 58 · Tissue 234
Samples
243
CL 55 · Tissue 182
Peptides
217
unique mutant peptides
Transcripts
3
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
Mutations29958234
Samples24355182
Peptides21742176

Function

ZNF879 · Zinc finger protein 879

This gene encodes a kruppel-associated box-containing zinc finger protein (KRAB-ZFP). The encoded protein contains an N-terminal kruppel-associated box (KRAB) domain and thirteen C-terminal C2H2-type zinc finger domains. The KRAB-ZFPs represent the largest family of mammalian transcriptional repressors, which function through the recruitment of the nuclear co-factor KRAB-Associated Protein 1 (KAP1), to engage histone modifiers and induce heterochromatin formation. [provided by RefSeq, Jul 2017].

Isoforms & Proteins

3 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
ENST00000444149 B4DU55 261 184
ENST00000519896 E5RGZ8* 37 32
ENST00000522442 E5RI37* 1 1

Gene Properties

Type
Protein Coding
Chromosome
5
Cytoband
5q35.3
Entrez ID
Aliases
DKFZp686E2433

Recurrent Mutations

All 184 amino-acid changes on canonical ENST00000444149 · 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 ZNF879 · 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 ZNF879 – 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
Endometrial Carcinoma
5/42 12%
29/612 5%
T-Lymphoblastic Leukemia
2/40 5%
0/0 0%
Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumour
0/0 0%
4/133 3%
Cervical Carcinoma
0/35 0%
6/422 1%
Colorectal Carcinoma
10/143 7%
34/3239 1%
Melanoma
5/210 2%
22/1899 1%
Neuroendocrine Tumour
3/154 2%
5/577 1%
Non-Small Cell Lung Carcinoma
5/304 2%
12/1390 1%
Adrenocortical Carcinoma
0/3 0%
1/112 1%
Hodgkins Lymphoma
0/16 0%
1/122 1%
Gastric Carcinoma
4/74 5%
7/1809 0%
Esophageal Squamous Cell Carcinoma
4/51 8%
11/2550 0%
Germ Cell Tumour
0/25 0%
1/169 1%
Biliary Tract Carcinoma
1/54 2%
4/950 0%
Osteosarcoma
1/45 2%
0/166 0%
Ovarian Carcinoma
3/109 3%
2/998 0%
Head and Neck Carcinoma
0/85 0%
7/1574 0%
Other Solid Cancers
0/94 0%
5/1515 0%
Hepatocellular Carcinoma
0/46 0%
7/2210 0%
Pancreatic Carcinoma
2/89 2%
3/1611 0%
Other Sarcomas
1/69 1%
1/699 0%
Small Cell Lung Carcinoma
0/9 0%
2/752 0%
Esophageal Carcinoma
0/23 0%
2/769 0%
Breast Carcinoma
2/144 1%
6/3264 0%
Squamous Cell Lung Carcinoma
0/57 0%
2/810 0%
Non-Cancerous
0/104 0%
2/830 0%
Thyroid Gland Carcinoma
2/45 4%
1/1592 0%
Glioma
0/52 0%
3/2127 0%
Neuroblastoma
1/87 1%
1/1331 0%
B-Lymphoblastic Leukemia
3/55 5%
0/2640 0%

Mutation Distribution

Where ZNF879 is mutated · all tissues, split by cell line vs tissue

Mutation counts by tissue
Mutation Distribution

How many mutations in ZNF879 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 299 mutations in ZNF879

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