{"entity":{"id":"ajuba","kind":"target","name":"AJUBA","aka":["ajuba LIM protein","LIM domain-containing protein ajuba","MGC15563"],"tldr":"AJUBA (LIM domain-containing protein ajuba) is a gene whose normal job is to hold cell growth in check. The public catalogues list it as a tumour suppressor, and it is called a cancer driver by mutation analysis of patient cohorts. Tied to Head and neck squamous cell carcinoma.","summary":"Adapter or scaffold protein which participates in the assembly of numerous protein complexes and is involved in several cellular processes such as cell fate determination, cytoskeletal organisation, repression of gene transcription, mitosis, cell-cell adhesion, cell differentiation, proliferation and migration. Contributes to the linking and/or strengthening of epithelia cell-cell junctions in part by linking adhesive receptors to the actin cytoskeleton. May be involved in signal transduction from cell adhesion sites to the nucleus.\n\nIntOGen calls it a driver in 1 cohort (0 activating, 1 loss-of-function), covering Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma.","asOf":"2026-09-23","links":[{"label":"HGNC HGNC:20250","url":"https://www.genenames.org/data/gene-symbol-report/#!/hgnc_id/HGNC:20250"},{"label":"UniProt Q96IF1","url":"https://www.uniprot.org/uniprotkb/Q96IF1/entry"},{"label":"NCBI Gene 84962","url":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/gene/84962"},{"label":"Ensembl ENSG00000129474","url":"https://www.ensembl.org/Homo_sapiens/Gene/Summary?g=ENSG00000129474"}],"tags":["cancer-genes-wave"],"related":["intogen"],"cancers":["head-and-neck"],"sections":[],"technologies":[],"targets":[],"drugs":[],"companies":[],"institutions":[],"pathways":[],"terms":[],"trials":[],"people":[],"bottlenecks":[],"keyPapers":[],"journals":[],"dependsOn":[],"notes":["Written by scripts/fetch-cancer-genes.ts from CIViC, Open Targets, IntOGen, HGNC and UniProt; the function text is UniProt's, condensed and in UK spelling. Roles: IntOGen calls it a loss-of-function (LoF) driver in 1 cohort. Evidence tier \"cohort-driver\" is the strongest of those signals.","Prevalence not recorded: none of the sources gives a positivity rate."],"provenance":{"editedBy":"scripts/fetch-cancer-genes.ts (CIViC, Open Targets, IntOGen, HGNC, UniProt)","editedOn":"2026-09-23"},"symbol":"AJUBA","role":["tumour-suppressor"],"evidenceTier":"cohort-driver","sources":[{"label":"HGNC HGNC:20250","url":"https://www.genenames.org/data/gene-symbol-report/#!/hgnc_id/HGNC:20250","note":"approved symbol, name, aliases, locus and cross-references (hgnc_complete_set.txt)"},{"label":"UniProt Q96IF1","url":"https://www.uniprot.org/uniprotkb/Q96IF1/entry","note":"protein name, function text, keywords and locations (REST API)"},{"label":"IntOGen AJUBA","url":"https://www.intogen.org/search?gene=AJUBA","note":"driver in 1 cohort (Act 0, LoF 1); Compendium_Cancer_Genes.tsv release 20240920, CC0 1.0"}],"hgnc":"HGNC:20250","ensembl":"ENSG00000129474","uniprot":"Q96IF1","entrez":"84962","biology":"Adapter or scaffold protein which participates in the assembly of numerous protein complexes and is involved in several cellular processes such as cell fate determination, cytoskeletal organisation, repression of gene transcription, mitosis, cell-cell adhesion, cell differentiation, proliferation and migration. Contributes to the linking and/or strengthening of epithelia cell-cell junctions in part by linking adhesive receptors to the actin cytoskeleton. May be involved in signal transduction from cell adhesion sites to the nucleus. Plays an important role in regulation of the kinase activity of AURKA for mitotic commitment. Also a component of the IL-1 signalling pathway modulating IL-1-induced NFKB1 activation by influencing the assembly and activity of the PRKCZ-SQSTM1-TRAF6 multiprotein signalling complex. Functions as an HDAC-dependent corepressor for a subset of GFI1 target genes. Location: Cytoplasm, cytoskeleton; Cell membrane; Cell junction; Nucleus (UniProt). Locus 14q11.2 (HGNC).","whereFound":["Head and neck squamous cell carcinoma: IntOGen driver in 1 cohort (HNSC)"],"targetClass":"tumor-suppressor","prevalence":[]},"route":"/targets/ajuba/","neighbours":{"collection":[{"id":"intogen","kind":"collection","name":"IntOGen","route":"/collections/intogen/"}],"cancer":[{"id":"head-and-neck","kind":"cancer","name":"Head and neck squamous cell carcinoma","route":"/cancers/head-and-neck/"}]}}