======= GABRA6 ======= == Gene Information == * **Official Symbol**: GABRA6 * **Official Name**: gamma-aminobutyric acid type A receptor subunit alpha6 * **Aliases and Previous Symbols**: N/A * **Entrez ID**: [[https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/gene/?term=2559|2559]] * **UniProt**: [[https://www.uniprot.org/uniprot/Q16445|Q16445]] * **Interactions**: [[https://thebiogrid.org/search.php?search=GABRA6&organism=9606|BioGRID]] * **PubMed articles**: [[https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=gene%20GABRA6|Open PubMed]] * **OMIM**: [[https://omim.org/entry/137143|Open OMIM]] == Function Summary == * **Entrez Summary**: N/A * **UniProt Summary**: GABA, the major inhibitory neurotransmitter in the vertebrate brain, mediates neuronal inhibition by binding to the GABA/benzodiazepine receptor and opening an integral chloride channel. |Neur chan memb| |Neur chan LBD| |cerebellar Golgi cell to granule cell synapse| |inhibitory extracellular ligand-gated ion channel activity| |benzodiazepine receptor activity| |GABA-gated chloride ion channel activity| |synaptic transmission, GABAergic| |GABA-A receptor complex| |GABA-A receptor activity| |gamma-aminobutyric acid signaling pathway| |dendrite membrane| |transmitter-gated ion channel activity involved in regulation of postsynaptic membrane potential| |chloride channel complex| |extracellular ligand-gated ion channel activity| |chloride channel activity| |postsynapse| |chloride transmembrane transport| |regulation of postsynaptic membrane potential| |chloride transport| |inorganic anion transmembrane transport| |inorganic anion transport| |postsynaptic membrane| |synapse| |anion transmembrane transport| |neuron projection| |chemical synaptic transmission| |anterograde trans-synaptic signaling| |regulation of membrane potential| |trans-synaptic signaling| |synaptic signaling| |cell junction| |anion transport| |inorganic ion transmembrane transport| |ion transmembrane transport| |cell-cell signaling| |transmembrane transport| |G protein-coupled receptor signaling pathway| |ion transport| |nervous system process| |integral component of plasma membrane| |system process| \\ === 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**: 15869 * **Expression level (log2 read counts)**: -2.64 {{:chemogenomics:nalm6 dist.png?nolink |}}