======= AWAT1 =======
== Gene Information ==
* **Official Symbol**: AWAT1
* **Official Name**: acyl-CoA wax alcohol acyltransferase 1
* **Aliases and Previous Symbols**: N/A
* **Entrez ID**: [[https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/gene/?term=158833|158833]]
* **UniProt**: [[https://www.uniprot.org/uniprot/Q58HT5|Q58HT5]]
* **Interactions**: [[https://thebiogrid.org/search.php?search=AWAT1&organism=9606|BioGRID]]
* **PubMed articles**: [[https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=gene%20AWAT1|Open PubMed]]
* **OMIM**: [[https://omim.org/entry/300924|Open OMIM]]
== Function Summary ==
* **Entrez Summary**: The protein encoded by this gene belongs to the diacylglycerol acyltransferase family. It esterifies long chain (wax) alcohols with acyl-CoA-derived fatty acids to produce wax esters. Wax esters are enriched in sebum, suggesting that this enzyme plays a central role in lipid metabolism in skin. Consistent with this observation, this protein is predominantly expressed in the sebaceous gland of the skin. [provided by RefSeq, Sep 2009].
* **UniProt Summary**: Acyltransferase that predominantly esterify long chain (wax) alcohols with acyl-CoA-derived fatty acids to produce wax esters. Wax esters are enriched in sebum, suggesting that it plays a central role in lipid metabolism in skin. Has a preference for arachidyl alcohol as well as decyl alcohol, demonstrating its relatively poor activity using saturated long chain alcohols (C16, C18, and C20). {ECO:0000269|PubMed:15671038}.
|DAGAT|
|long-chain-alcohol O-fatty-acyltransferase activity|
|arachidoyl-CoA:1-dodecanol O-acyltransferase activity|
|wax metabolic process|
|wax biosynthetic process|
|arachidonic acid metabolic process|
|fatty acid derivative biosynthetic process|
|unsaturated fatty acid metabolic process|
|icosanoid metabolic process|
|long-chain fatty acid metabolic process|
|fatty acid derivative metabolic process|
|fatty acid metabolic process|
|monocarboxylic acid metabolic process|
|carboxylic acid metabolic process|
|endoplasmic reticulum membrane|
|cellular lipid metabolic process|
|oxoacid metabolic process|
|organic acid metabolic process|
|lipid metabolic process|
|small molecule metabolic process|
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=== CRISPR Data ===
^Screen^Score^
|[[:results:exp22|MLN-4924 2μM R00 exp22]]|-2.15|
|[[:results:exp11|CCCP 1μM R00 exp11]]|-1.93|
|[[:results:exp441|GSK-J4 1.5μM R08 exp441]]|-1.85|
|[[:results:exp25|Oligomycin-A 2μM R00 exp25]]|-1.85|
|[[:results:exp235|Geldanamycin 0.01μM R05 exp235]]|-1.84|
|[[:results:exp38|Wortmannin 5μM R00 exp38]]|-1.82|
|[[:results:exp453|B02 10μM R08 exp453]]|-1.8|
|[[:results:exp262|Alda-1 10μM R06 exp262]]|-1.77|
|[[:results:exp144|PFI-3 10μM R03 exp144]]|-1.75|
|[[:results:exp326|CCT251545 20μM R07 exp326]]|-1.74|
|[[:results:exp61|YM155 0.0002μM R01 exp61]]|-1.7|
|[[:results:exp80|RO-3307 4.7μM R02 exp80]]|1.74|
|[[:results:exp333|All-trans-Retinoic-Acid 8μM R07 exp333]]|1.78|
No correlation found to any other genes in chemogenomics.
Global Fraction of Cell Lines Where Essential: 0/694
^Tissue^Fraction Of Cell Lines Where Essential^
|1290807.0|0/1|
|909776.0|0/1|
|bile duct|0/28|
|blood|0/26|
|bone|0/26|
|breast|0/30|
|central nervous system|0/49|
|cervix|0/4|
|colorectal|0/17|
|esophagus|0/11|
|fibroblast|0/1|
|gastric|0/14|
|kidney|0/18|
|liver|0/19|
|lung|0/72|
|lymphocyte|0/16|
|ovary|0/25|
|pancreas|0/22|
|peripheral nervous system|0/15|
|plasma cell|0/12|
|prostate|0/1|
|skin|0/20|
|soft tissue|0/9|
|thyroid|0/2|
|upper aerodigestive|0/22|
|urinary tract|0/28|
|uterus|0/5|
== Essentiality in NALM6 ==
* **Essentiality Rank**: 11620
* **Expression level (log2 read counts)**: -5.6
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