Interactive Molecular Biology

The Guardian
of the Genome

TP53 is the most frequently mutated gene in human cancer — altered in over half of all solid tumor cases and present in roughly 29% of all cancer diagnoses globally. Explore its 3D structure, map every known mutation, and understand why it matters.

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50%+ of all cancers carry TP53 mutations
393 amino acids in the p53 protein
29,900+ tumor variants catalogued in NCI TP53 Database R21
46 years of research since p53 was discovered (1979)