======= GPX2 ======= == Gene Information == * **Official Symbol**: GPX2 * **Official Name**: glutathione peroxidase 2 * **Aliases and Previous Symbols**: N/A * **Entrez ID**: [[https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/gene/?term=2877|2877]] * **UniProt**: [[https://www.uniprot.org/uniprot/P18283|P18283]] * **Interactions**: [[https://thebiogrid.org/search.php?search=GPX2&organism=9606|BioGRID]] * **PubMed articles**: [[https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=gene%20GPX2|Open PubMed]] * **OMIM**: [[https://omim.org/entry/138319|Open OMIM]] == Function Summary == * **Entrez Summary**: N/A * **UniProt Summary**: Could play a major role in protecting mammals from the toxicity of ingested organic hydroperoxides. Tert-butyl hydroperoxide, cumene hydroperoxide and linoleic acid hydroperoxide but not phosphatidycholine hydroperoxide, can act as acceptors. |GSHPx| |glutathione peroxidase activity| |peroxidase activity| |electron transfer activity| |cellular oxidant detoxification| |cellular detoxification| |detoxification| |electron transport chain| |cellular response to toxic substance| |cellular response to oxidative stress| |response to oxidative stress| |generation of precursor metabolites and energy| |response to toxic substance| |oxidation-reduction process| |cellular response to stress| \\ === 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**: 6486 * **Expression level (log2 read counts)**: 0.47 {{:chemogenomics:nalm6 dist.png?nolink |}}