Protein / target

Coiled-coil domain-containing protein 6

CCDC6Q16204Homo sapiensSwiss-Prot
Clinically validated
Therapeutic maturity
2
Approved medicines
11
Clinical trials
Small-molecule tractable
Druggability
Approved Drug

Protein at a glance

Biological role

Structural constituent of cytoskeleton

Strongest disease association

non-small cell lung carcinoma

Clinical evidence · score 0.68

Therapeutic maturity

Clinically validated target

2 approved medicines against this target

Druggability

Small molecule

Open Targets tractability · Approved Drug

Clinical development

2 approved

11 linked trials

Derived from structured UniProt, Open Targets and literature data on this page.

Protein profile

UniProt 2026_02

Canonical identity and biological annotation from UniProt.

Subcellular location

CytoplasmCytoplasm, cytoskeleton
Domains and Gene Ontology detail (5)

Gene Ontology

  • Ccytoskeleton
  • Ccytosol
  • Fidentical protein binding
  • FSH3 domain binding
  • Fstructural constituent of cytoskeleton

474 aa · 53 kDa

Interaction neighbourhood

STRING v12.0

Proteins with the strongest functional or physical association. Node size and line weight reflect STRING confidence; hover or select a partner to inspect one association.

NCOA4RETPPP4CMPSTTPM3PPP4R1PTCH1TRIM33SLC34A2ROS1CCDC6

10 strongest partners — larger node and heavier line mean higher confidence

Functional and physical associations from STRING v12.0. Only associations with this protein are drawn — partner-to-partner links are not part of this evidence.

Drugs targeting this protein

1

Whether each drug engages this protein directly or through a complex, and how many other targets are recorded for it. Direct binders with few recorded targets are listed first.

pralsetinib
Narrow target profileApprovedInhibitor

Coiled-coil domain-containing protein 6/Tyrosine-protein kinase receptor RET inhibitor

Appears in clinical studies involving medullary thyroid gland carcinoma, non-small cell lung carcinoma, non-small cell lung carcinoma, neoplasm

Direct interaction with this protein · 1 of 3 recorded protein targets — narrow recorded profile

ChEMBL mechanism, action type and target identity. Open Targets clinical status and indications.

Translational evidence

Open Targets 26

Why this target matters therapeutically — disease associations, drugs in development, tractability and safety, from Open Targets.

Highest-confidence therapeutic associations

Diseases where a drug acting on this target has already reached clinical development.

non-small cell lung carcinoma0.95

Clinical · overall 0.68

medullary thyroid gland carcinoma0.88

Clinical · overall 0.61

thyroid cancer0.78

Clinical · overall 0.48

neoplasm0.77

Clinical · overall 0.49

thyroid tumor0.61

Clinical · overall 0.46

Highest overall evidence

Remaining associations by Open Targets' aggregated evidence score.

neurodegenerative disease0.53

Pathway

thyroid gland papillary carcinoma0.40

Somatic mutation

thyroid gland undifferentiated (anaplastic) carcinoma0.39

Somatic mutation

thyroid gland follicular carcinoma0.39

Somatic mutation

lung adenocarcinoma0.37

Somatic mutation

Show all associations
non-small cell lung carcinoma0.68
medullary thyroid gland carcinoma0.61
neurodegenerative disease0.53
neoplasm0.49
thyroid cancer0.48
thyroid tumor0.46
thyroid gland papillary carcinoma0.40
thyroid gland undifferentiated (anaplastic) carcinoma0.39
thyroid gland follicular carcinoma0.39
lung adenocarcinoma0.37

Open Targets ranks 306 associations for this target and we store the top 10 by aggregated score. The long tail is largely literature co-mention and RNA-expression evidence, not evidence that this target drives those diseases.

Known drugs · 2 total

SELPERCATINIBApproval

medullary thyroid gland carcinoma · non-small cell lung carcinoma · thyroid cancer

PRALSETINIBApproval

medullary thyroid gland carcinoma · non-small cell lung carcinoma · non-small cell lung carcinoma

Tractability

SM · Approved DrugSM · High-Quality LigandPR · Database UbiquitinationPR · Half-life DataPR · Small Molecule Binder

Clinical trials

11

Trials of drugs that target this protein — reached indirectly through those drugs, so a trial listed here studies the drug, not the protein.

ClinicalTrials.gov via the drug-target graph.

Forefront confidence

Synthesis

Our own weighting of the evidence behind each disease association. Human genetics and clinical evidence count for most; literature co-mention counts for little, because two entities sharing an abstract is not evidence that one drives the other.

non-small cell lung carcinomaWell supported
0.84
agreement 0.720.96
Clinical59%Somatic mutation33%Literature9%

Open Targets aggregate 0.68 · 3 independent evidence families

medullary thyroid gland carcinomaWell supported
0.77
agreement 0.650.89
Clinical68%Somatic mutation30%Literature2%

Open Targets aggregate 0.61 · 3 independent evidence families

thyroid tumorModerately supported
0.68
agreement 0.560.80
Clinical53%Somatic mutation46%Literature2%

Open Targets aggregate 0.46 · 3 independent evidence families

neoplasmModerately supported
0.63
agreement 0.470.78
Clinical84%Literature17%

Open Targets aggregate 0.49 · 2 independent evidence families

thyroid cancerModerately supported
0.60
agreement 0.440.75
Clinical96%Literature5%

Open Targets aggregate 0.48 · 2 independent evidence families

The evidence agreement range shows how closely the independent evidence families agree — it is not a statistical confidence interval, and nothing here is fitted to outcome data. Derived from Open Targets evidence types under Forefront weighting; the underlying per-type scores are shown above so the calculation can be checked.

What's happening now

2

Recent activity around this target, drawn from one canonical event stream. Every item is reached through a drug that targets this protein, so each event is news about that drug rather than about the protein directly.

  1. Withdrawn from market2024-10-24

    Market withdrawal: Gavreto (EMA)

    ema · market · ema · via pralsetinib

  2. New publication2024-01-01
    Pralsetinib in Patients with Advanced/Metastatic Rearranged During Transfection (RET)-Altered Thyroid Cancer: Updated Efficacy and Safety Data from the ARROW Study.

    Thyroid : official journal of the American Thyroid Association · 2024 · 40 citations · Europe PMC · via pralsetinib

Objective event titles are shown unmodified; the event kind and significance line are derived from structured fields. Forefront AttentionEvent stream aggregating Europe PMC Regulatory filings ClinicalTrials.gov.