Biomarkers /
KIT
Overview
KIT (v-kit Hardy-Zuckerman 4 feline sarcoma viral oncogene homolog, also known as CD117) encodes for the mast/stem cell growth factor receptor Kit protein. It is a receptor tyrosine kinase (RTK) expressed on a wide variety of cell types. The ligand for KIT is stem cell factor (SCF). Binding of the KIT ligand SCF to the KIT RTK activates downstream signaling pathways involved in mediating pro-growth and pro-survival signals within the cell. Mutant KIT has been implicated in the pathogenesis of several cancers including melanoma, acute leukemia, and gastrointestinal stromal tumor (GIST; PMID: 14645423; PMID: 9438854
Biomarker-Directed Therapies
Clinical Trials
Significance of KIT in Diseases
References
1. Hart R and Prlic A. Universal Transcript Archive Repository. Version uta_20180821. San Francisco CA: Github;2015. https://github.com/biocommons/uta
2. The UniProt Consortium. UniProt: a worldwide hub of protein knowledge. Nucleic Acids Research. 2019;47:D506-D515.
3. The AACR Project GENIE Consortium. AACR Project GENIE: powering precision medicine through an international consortium. Cancer Discovery. 2017;7(8):818-831. Dataset Version 8. This dataset does not represent the totality of the genetic landscape; see paper for more information.
4. All assertions and clinical trial landscape data are curated from primary sources. You can read more about the curation process here.