======= MED8 ======= == Gene Information == * **Official Symbol**: MED8 * **Official Name**: mediator complex subunit 8 * **Aliases and Previous Symbols**: N/A * **Entrez ID**: [[https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/gene/?term=112950|112950]] * **UniProt**: [[https://www.uniprot.org/uniprot/Q96G25|Q96G25]] * **Interactions**: [[https://thebiogrid.org/search.php?search=MED8&organism=9606|BioGRID]] * **PubMed articles**: [[https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=gene%20MED8|Open PubMed]] * **OMIM**: [[https://omim.org/entry/607956|Open OMIM]] == Function Summary == * **Entrez Summary**: N/A * **UniProt Summary**: Component of the Mediator complex, a coactivator involved in the regulated transcription of nearly all RNA polymerase II-dependent genes. Mediator functions as a bridge to convey information from gene-specific regulatory proteins to the basal RNA polymerase II transcription machinery. Mediator is recruited to promoters by direct interactions with regulatory proteins and serves as a scaffold for the assembly of a functional preinitiation complex with RNA polymerase II and the general transcription factors. May play a role as a target recruitment subunit in E3 ubiquitin-protein ligase complexes and thus in ubiquitination and subsequent proteasomal degradation of target proteins. |Med8| |core mediator complex| |mediator complex| |transcription coregulator activity| |transcription initiation from RNA polymerase II promoter| |DNA-templated transcription, initiation| |transcription by RNA polymerase II| |RNA polymerase II proximal promoter sequence-specific DNA binding| |transcription, DNA-templated| |nucleic acid-templated transcription| |RNA biosynthetic process| |protein ubiquitination| |protein modification by small protein conjugation| |protein modification by small protein conjugation or removal| |nucleobase-containing compound biosynthetic process| |heterocycle biosynthetic process| |aromatic compound biosynthetic process| |organic cyclic compound biosynthetic process| |cellular nitrogen compound biosynthetic process| |RNA metabolic process| |cellular macromolecule biosynthetic process| |macromolecule biosynthetic process| |gene expression| \\ === CRISPR Data === ^Screen^Score^ |[[:results:exp29|Rapamycin 1μM R00 exp29]]|-1.72| |[[:results:exp537|WNT3A 44ng/ml R08 exp537]]|1.78| No correlation found to any other genes in chemogenomics. Global Fraction of Cell Lines Where Essential: 718/726 ^Tissue^Fraction Of Cell Lines Where Essential^ |1290807.0|1/1| |909776.0|1/1| |bile duct|28/28| |blood|27/28| |bone|25/25| |breast|32/33| |central nervous system|55/56| |cervix|4/4| |colorectal|17/17| |esophagus|13/13| |fibroblast|1/1| |gastric|15/15| |kidney|21/21| |liver|19/20| |lung|75/75| |lymphocyte|14/14| |ovary|26/26| |pancreas|24/24| |peripheral nervous system|16/16| |plasma cell|15/15| |prostate|1/1| |skin|23/24| |soft tissue|7/7| |thyroid|2/2| |upper aerodigestive|22/22| |urinary tract|29/29| |uterus|5/5| == Essentiality in NALM6 == * **Essentiality Rank**: 2033 * **Expression level (log2 read counts)**: 4.52 {{:chemogenomics:nalm6 dist.png?nolink |}}