======= FIGLA =======
== Gene Information ==
* **Official Symbol**: FIGLA
* **Official Name**: folliculogenesis specific bHLH transcription factor
* **Aliases and Previous Symbols**: N/A
* **Entrez ID**: [[https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/gene/?term=344018|344018]]
* **UniProt**: [[https://www.uniprot.org/uniprot/Q6QHK4|Q6QHK4]]
* **Interactions**: [[https://thebiogrid.org/search.php?search=FIGLA&organism=9606|BioGRID]]
* **PubMed articles**: [[https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=gene%20FIGLA|Open PubMed]]
* **OMIM**: [[https://omim.org/entry/608697|Open OMIM]]
== Function Summary ==
* **Entrez Summary**: This gene encodes a protein that functions in postnatal oocyte-specific gene expression. The protein is a basic helix-loop-helix transcription factor that regulates multiple oocyte-specific genes, including genes involved in folliculogenesis and those that encode the zona pellucida. Mutations in this gene cause premature ovarian failure type 6. [provided by RefSeq, Sep 2009].
* **UniProt Summary**: Germline specific transcription factor implicated in postnatal oocyte-specific gene expression. Plays a key regulatory role in the expression of multiple oocyte-specific genes, including those that initiate folliculogenesis and those that encode the zona pellucida (ZP1, ZP2 and ZP3) required for fertilization and early embryonic survival. Essential for oocytes to survive and form primordial follicles. The persistence of FIGLA in adult females suggests that it may regulate additional pathways that are essential for normal ovarian development. Binds to the E- box (5'-CANNTG-3') of the ZPs (ZP1, ZP2, ZP3) promoters. {ECO:0000269|PubMed:15044608}.
|HLH|
|oocyte development|
|oocyte differentiation|
|oogenesis|
|female gamete generation|
|protein dimerization activity|
|transcription factor complex|
|germ cell development|
|transcription factor binding|
|cellular process involved in reproduction in multicellular organism|
|sequence-specific DNA binding|
|DNA-binding transcription activator activity, RNA polymerase II-specific|
|RNA polymerase II proximal promoter sequence-specific DNA binding|
|developmental process involved in reproduction|
|gamete generation|
|multicellular organismal reproductive process|
|sexual reproduction|
|multicellular organism reproduction|
|multi-organism reproductive process|
|positive regulation of transcription by RNA polymerase II|
|reproductive process|
|reproduction|
|positive regulation of transcription, DNA-templated|
|DNA-binding transcription factor activity, RNA polymerase II-specific|
|positive regulation of nucleic acid-templated transcription|
|positive regulation of RNA biosynthetic process|
|cell development|
|positive regulation of RNA metabolic process|
|positive regulation of nucleobase-containing compound metabolic process|
|positive regulation of macromolecule biosynthetic process|
|positive regulation of cellular biosynthetic process|
|positive regulation of gene expression|
|positive regulation of biosynthetic process|
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=== CRISPR Data ===
No hits were found.
No correlation found to any other genes in chemogenomics.
Global Fraction of Cell Lines Where Essential: 0/739
^Tissue^Fraction Of Cell Lines Where Essential^
|1290807.0|0/1|
|909776.0|0/1|
|bile duct|0/28|
|blood|0/28|
|bone|0/26|
|breast|0/33|
|central nervous system|0/56|
|cervix|0/4|
|colorectal|0/17|
|esophagus|0/13|
|fibroblast|0/1|
|gastric|0/16|
|kidney|0/21|
|liver|0/20|
|lung|0/75|
|lymphocyte|0/16|
|ovary|0/26|
|pancreas|0/24|
|peripheral nervous system|0/16|
|plasma cell|0/15|
|prostate|0/1|
|skin|0/24|
|soft tissue|0/9|
|thyroid|0/2|
|upper aerodigestive|0/22|
|urinary tract|0/29|
|uterus|0/5|
== Essentiality in NALM6 ==
* **Essentiality Rank**: 16724
* **Expression level (log2 read counts)**: -7.68
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