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PLAG1 (Zinc finger protein PLAG1) is a gene that drives cell growth when it is altered. The public catalogues list it as an oncogene driver and a fusion partner, and it is called a cancer driver by mutation analysis of patient cohorts. Tied to Breast cancer, Melanoma and Oral cavity cancer. This dossier gathers the 0 products (0 approved), 0 trials, 0 pathways and 0 resistance routes in the corpus that involve it, with external identifiers so it can be joined to UniProt, ChEMBL, Open Targets and the rest of biology.

Biology

Transcription factor whose activation results in up-regulation of target genes, such as IGFII, leading to uncontrolled cell proliferation: when overexpressed in cultured cells, higher proliferation rate and transformation are observed. Other target genes such as CRLF1, CRABP2, CRIP2, PIGF are strongly induced in cells with PLAG1 induction. Proto-oncogene whose ectopic expression can trigger the development of pleomorphic adenomas of the salivary gland and lipoblastomas. Overexpression is associated with up-regulation of IGFII, is frequently observed in hepatoblastoma, common primary liver tumour in childhood. Cooperates with CBFB-MYH11, a fusion gene important for myeloid leukaemia. Location: Nucleus (UniProt). Locus 8q12.1 (HGNC).

Where it is found
  • Breast cancer: Open Targets association 0.57 with breast cancer (MONDO_0007254); IntOGen driver in 1 cohort (BRCA)
  • Melanoma: IntOGen driver in 1 cohort (SKCM)
  • Oral cavity cancer: Open Targets association 0.52 with oral cavity cancer (MONDO_0005515)
Class: oncogene · Gene: PLAG1 · Facts checked 2026-09-23 · Target page

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Query for this target: (TITLE:"PLAG1" OR ABSTRACT:"PLAG1" OR TITLE:"PLAG1 zinc finger" OR ABSTRACT:"PLAG1 zinc finger" OR TITLE:"Zinc finger protein PLAG1" OR ABSTRACT:"Zinc finger protein PLAG1" OR TITLE:"ZNF912" OR ABSTRACT:"ZNF912") AND (cancer OR tumor OR tumour OR oncology OR carcinoma OR lymphoma OR leukemia OR leukaemia OR myeloma OR sarcoma OR melanoma OR glioma). Results are unfiltered search hits about PLAG1, not a curated reading list.

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The dossier as machine-readable JSON: identifiers from HGNC, Ensembl, UniProt and ChEMBL, products with status, trials, pathways, hotspots, open questions and assays. The full entity record is in the open API at /api/v1/entities/plag1.json. Licence CC BY-NC 4.0.