======= GALT ======= == Gene Information == * **Official Symbol**: GALT * **Official Name**: galactose-1-phosphate uridylyltransferase * **Aliases and Previous Symbols**: N/A * **Entrez ID**: [[https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/gene/?term=2592|2592]] * **UniProt**: [[https://www.uniprot.org/uniprot/P07902|P07902]] * **Interactions**: [[https://thebiogrid.org/search.php?search=GALT&organism=9606|BioGRID]] * **PubMed articles**: [[https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=gene%20GALT|Open PubMed]] * **OMIM**: [[https://omim.org/entry/606999|Open OMIM]] == Function Summary == * **Entrez Summary**: Galactose-1-phosphate uridyl transferase (GALT) catalyzes the second step of the Leloir pathway of galactose metabolism, namely the conversion of UDP-glucose + galactose-1-phosphate to glucose-1-phosphate + UDP-galactose. The absence of this enzyme results in classic galactosemia in humans and can be fatal in the newborn period if lactose is not removed from the diet. The pathophysiology of galactosemia has not been clearly defined. Two transcript variants encoding different isoforms have been found for this gene. [provided by RefSeq, Apr 2012]. * **UniProt Summary**: N/A |GalP UDP transf| |GalP UDP tr C| |UDP-glucose:hexose-1-phosphate uridylyltransferase activity| |UDP-glucose catabolic process| |nucleotide-sugar catabolic process| |UDP-glucose metabolic process| |galactose catabolic process via UDP-galactose| |galactose catabolic process| |galactose metabolic process| |nucleotide-sugar metabolic process| |nucleobase-containing small molecule catabolic process| |hexose catabolic process| |monosaccharide catabolic process| |carbohydrate catabolic process| |hexose metabolic process| |carbohydrate derivative catabolic process| |monosaccharide metabolic process| |nucleobase-containing compound catabolic process| |heterocycle catabolic process| |cellular nitrogen compound catabolic process| |small molecule catabolic process| |aromatic compound catabolic process| |carbohydrate metabolic process| |organic cyclic compound catabolic process| |nucleobase-containing small molecule metabolic process| |zinc ion binding| |Golgi apparatus| |carbohydrate derivative metabolic process| |small molecule metabolic process| |organic substance catabolic process| |cellular catabolic process| \\ === CRISPR Data === ^Screen^Score^ |[[:results:exp34|Rotenone 20μM R00 exp34]]|-1.76| 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**: 8800 * **Expression level (log2 read counts)**: 4.59 {{:chemogenomics:nalm6 dist.png?nolink |}}