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VCAN: versican

1 protein, 118 patents, 0 drugs, 0 trials, 3,570 NIH grants and 6,004 papers.

Gene 7

Its symbol and name are HGNC's, unless HGNC and NCBI Gene contradict each other.

FieldValueSource
SymbolVCANHGNC
NameversicanHGNC
NCBI Gene ID1462NCBI Gene
HGNC IDHGNC:2464HGNC
EnsemblENSG00000038427NCBI Gene
AliasesCSPG2, ERVR, GHAP, PG-M, WGN, WGN1NCBI Gene
Typeprotein-codingNCBI Gene

Proteins 1

Reviewed human proteins whose Swiss-Prot entry states the gene.

UniProt entryProteinLengthStructuresGene stated inSource
P13611Versican core protein3,3960Ensembl, GeneID, HGNCUniProt

Patents 118

Patents whose sequence listing holds the protein exactly: the same sequence, by SHA-256, length and CRC-64. A sequence a patent lists is not always one it claims.

PublicationPublishedSEQ ID NOProteinSource
JP 2026515744 A2026-05-19112P13611Espacenet
EP 4650780 A22025-11-192436P13611Espacenet
EP 4641201 A22025-10-292018P13611Espacenet
WO 2025217069 A12025-10-1662P13611Espacenet
JP 2025147176 A2025-10-0614017P13611Espacenet
JP 2025529142 A2025-09-048021P13611Espacenet
US 12371689 B22025-07-298021P13611Espacenet
JP 2025517969 A2025-06-122018P13611Espacenet
JP 2025517970 A2025-06-122436P13611Espacenet
JP 2025032204 A2025-03-1138069P13611Espacenet

Drugs 0

Drugs a ChEMBL mechanism record says act on the gene's protein, through Open Targets.

DrugChEMBL IDMechanismActionSource

Trials 0

Trials of those drugs. A trial joins the gene only through a drug that acts on it.

TrialDrugPhaseResults first postedSource

NIH grants 3570

NIH projects whose papers are about the gene, through NIH's grant-paper links.

ProjectTitleIts papers about the geneNewest fiscal yearSource
P30CA016672Cancer Center Support Grant172,025NIH's project files
P30EY010572Ophthalmology Core Facility162,025NIH's project files
P30CA014520UW Comprehensive Cancer Center Support122,025NIH's project files
P30DK017047Diabetes Research Center102,025NIH's project files
R01EY019643Extracellular Matrix and Outflow Resistance82,025NIH's project files
P30CA030199Cancer Center Support Grant (CCSG)72,025NIH's project files
P30DK035816Nutrition Obesity Research Center72,025NIH's project files
P30EY016665Core Grant for Vision Research62,025NIH's project files
UL1TR001863Yale Clinical and Translational Science Award62,025NIH's project files
P30CA008748Cancer Center Support Grant52,025NIH's project files

Papers 6004

Newest first. Swiss-Prot's references are curated; PubTator's text mining finds papers that name the gene, not always ones about it.

PMIDFound bySource
42823844PubTator, text miningPubMed
42818172PubTator, text miningPubMed
42794518PubTator, text miningPubMed
42787641PubTator, text miningPubMed
42776962PubTator, text miningPubMed
42748792PubTator, text miningPubMed
42747347PubTator, text miningPubMed
42729226PubTator, text miningPubMed
42720599PubTator, text miningPubMed
42717886PubTator, text miningPubMed

The same record as JSON

Release gene-search-2026-11-11-0.1.0

ClinicalTrials.gov's posted results, through CTTI's AACT: ClinicalTrials.gov data via Aggregate Analysis of ClinicalTrials.gov (AACT), CTTI. CTTI makes its materials freely available and requests acknowledgement. https://aact.ctti-clinicaltrials.org/documentation/299 ClinicalTrials.gov's data carry an international copyright outside the United States: https://clinicaltrials.gov/about-site/terms-conditions.

ChEMBL, through Open Targets: CC BY-SA 3.0, for the parts from ChEMBL. Read on 8 Nov 2026 at https://platform-docs.opentargets.org/licence

ClinicalTrials.gov: none stated ClinicalTrials.gov's data carry an international copyright outside the United States: https://clinicaltrials.gov/about-site/terms-conditions.

EMBL-EBI's patent proteins: EMBL-EBI's patent protein files from the EPO, JPO, KIPO and USPTO. EMBL-EBI: "EMBL-EBI itself places no additional restrictions on the use or redistribution of the data available via its Data Resources and Tools other than those provided by the original data owners" and "EMBL-EBI expects attribution (e.g. in publications, services or products) for the use of any of its Data Resources and Tools." Read on 11 Nov 2026 at https://www.ebi.ac.uk/about/terms-of-use

GenBank's patent files: GenBank's patent files. NCBI: "NCBI places no restrictions on the use or distribution of the GenBank data. However, some submitters may claim patent, copyright, or other intellectual property rights in all or a portion of the data they have submitted." Read on 11 Nov 2026 at https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genbank/about/

HGNC: CC0: https://www.genenames.org/about/license/

NCBI Gene: None named for the file. NCBI says information created by or for the US government on its site is in the public domain, and asks that NLM be acknowledged: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/home/about/policies/

NIH's project files and grant-paper links: Public domain (NIH RePORTER)

Open Targets: CC0 1.0. Open Targets asks that users cite its latest paper: Buniello et al. 2025, Open Targets Platform: facilitating therapeutic hypotheses building in drug discovery, Nucleic Acids Research 53(D1):D1467, PMID 39657122. Read on 8 Nov 2026 at https://platform-docs.opentargets.org/licence

PubTator 3: Public domain

UniProt: CC BY 4.0. UniProt's licence file: "All databases and documents in the UniProt FTP directory may be copied and redistributed freely, without advance permission, provided that this copyright statement is reproduced with each copy." UniProt asks that users cite its latest paper: The UniProt Consortium, UniProt: the Universal Protein Knowledgebase in 2025, Nucleic Acids Research 53:D609-D617, https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkae1010. Read on 9 Nov 2026 at https://www.uniprot.org/help/license