======= 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| \\ === 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 {{:chemogenomics:nalm6 dist.png?nolink |}}