HOXD8
HOXD8 (Homeobox protein Hox-D8) is a protein that switches other genes on and off. The public catalogues list it as a drug target and a biomarker, and clinical evidence ties its variants to diagnosis, prognosis or drug response. Tied to Melanoma.
Overview
Sequence-specific transcription factor which is part of a developmental regulatory system that provides cells with specific positional identities on the anterior-posterior axis.
CIViC holds 1 clinical evidence item and 0 assertions across 1 variant, naming Vemurafenib and Dabrafenib.
- Target · the protein and the cell it sits on
- Drug · antibody, small molecule, cell or radioligand
- Effect · signal, damage or kill
In plain words · HOXD8 (Homeobox protein Hox-D8) is a protein that switches other genes on and off. The public catalogues list it as a drug target and a biomarker, and clinical evidence ties its variants to diagnosis, prognosis or drug response. Tied to Melanoma.
- 1 · What it is
HOXD8 (Homeobox protein Hox-D8) is a protein that switches other genes on and off. The public catalogues list it as a drug target and a biomarker, and clinical evidence ties its variants to diagnosis, prognosis or drug response. Tied to Melanoma.
- 2 · What goes wrong in cancer
Sequence-specific transcription factor which is part of a developmental regulatory system that provides cells with specific positional identities on the anterior-posterior axis. Location: Nucleus (UniProt).
- 3 · How drugs use it
No product in this corpus aims at HOXD8 yet. Transcription factors have no pocket to plug, so drugs either degrade them or block the partner protein they need to dock on DNA.
External identifiers
Sources: HGNC HGNC:5139 (approved symbol, name, aliases, locus and cross-references (hgnc_complete_set.txt)); UniProt P13378 (protein name, function text, keywords and locations (REST API)); CIViC gene HOXD8 (1 evidence items, 0 assertions, 1 variants; diseases: Melanoma (GraphQL API, CC0))
Biology
Sequence-specific transcription factor which is part of a developmental regulatory system that provides cells with specific positional identities on the anterior-posterior axis. Location: Nucleus (UniProt). Locus 2q31.1 (HGNC).
- Melanoma: CIViC evidence names this disease
Notes
top- 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: CIViC lists 2 therapies; CIViC holds 1 clinical evidence items on its variants. Evidence tier "clinical-evidence" is the strongest of those signals.
- Prevalence not recorded: none of the sources gives a positivity rate.
Latest papers
topQuery for this target: (TITLE:"HOXD8" OR ABSTRACT:"HOXD8" OR TITLE:"homeobox D8" OR ABSTRACT:"homeobox D8" OR TITLE:"Homeobox protein Hox-D8" OR ABSTRACT:"Homeobox protein Hox-D8" OR TITLE:"HOX4" OR ABSTRACT:"HOX4" OR TITLE:"HOX4E" OR ABSTRACT:"HOX4E") 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 HOXD8, not a curated reading list.