IRX4
IRX4 (Iroquois-class homeodomain protein IRX-4) is a gene. In the public catalogues the evidence so far is association rather than a proven role. Tied to Prostate cancer.
Overview
Likely to be an important mediator of ventricular differentiation during cardiac development.
Open Targets scores its association with cancer at 0.52 (direct and indirect evidence; datatypes literature 0.46, genetic association 0.84).
- Target · the protein and the cell it sits on
- Drug · antibody, small molecule, cell or radioligand
- Effect · signal, damage or kill
In plain words · IRX4 (Iroquois-class homeodomain protein IRX-4) is a gene. In the public catalogues the evidence so far is association rather than a proven role. Tied to Prostate cancer.
- 1 · What it is
IRX4 (Iroquois-class homeodomain protein IRX-4) is a gene. In the public catalogues the evidence so far is association rather than a proven role. Tied to Prostate cancer.
- 2 · What goes wrong in cancer
Likely to be an important mediator of ventricular differentiation during cardiac development. Location: Nucleus (UniProt).
- 3 · How drugs use it
No product in this corpus aims at IRX4 yet. Drugs bind the molecule precisely: to switch it off, flag the cell for the immune system, or deliver a payload.
External identifiers
Sources: HGNC HGNC:6129 (approved symbol, name, aliases, locus and cross-references (hgnc_complete_set.txt)); UniProt P78413 (protein name, function text, keywords and locations (REST API)); Open Targets ENSG00000113430 (association with cancer (MONDO_0004992) 0.52; per-cancer scores at or above 0.5: prostate cancer 0.52 (GraphQL API, CC0))
Biology
Likely to be an important mediator of ventricular differentiation during cardiac development. Location: Nucleus (UniProt). Locus 5p15.33 (HGNC).
- Prostate cancer: Open Targets association 0.52 with prostate cancer (MONDO_0008315)
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: none stated by the sources. Evidence tier "association-only" is the strongest of those signals.
- Prevalence not recorded: none of the sources gives a positivity rate.
Latest papers
topQuery for this target: (TITLE:"IRX4" OR ABSTRACT:"IRX4" OR TITLE:"iroquois homeobox 4" OR ABSTRACT:"iroquois homeobox 4" OR TITLE:"Iroquois-class homeodomain protein IRX-4" OR ABSTRACT:"Iroquois-class homeodomain protein IRX-4") 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 IRX4, not a curated reading list.