======= MELK ======= == Gene Information == * **Official Symbol**: MELK * **Official Name**: maternal embryonic leucine zipper kinase * **Aliases and Previous Symbols**: N/A * **Entrez ID**: [[https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/gene/?term=9833|9833]] * **UniProt**: [[https://www.uniprot.org/uniprot/Q14680|Q14680]] * **Interactions**: [[https://thebiogrid.org/search.php?search=MELK&organism=9606|BioGRID]] * **PubMed articles**: [[https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=gene%20MELK|Open PubMed]] * **OMIM**: [[https://omim.org/entry/607025|Open OMIM]] == Function Summary == * **Entrez Summary**: N/A * **UniProt Summary**: N/A |Kdo| |KA1| |Pkinase Tyr| |Pkinase| |intrinsic apoptotic signaling pathway in response to oxidative stress| |cell death in response to oxidative stress| |non-membrane spanning protein tyrosine kinase activity| |neural precursor cell proliferation| |G2/M transition of mitotic cell cycle| |cell cycle G2/M phase transition| |cell cortex| |peptidyl-tyrosine phosphorylation| |peptidyl-tyrosine modification| |intrinsic apoptotic signaling pathway| |lipid binding| |protein autophosphorylation| |cellular response to oxidative stress| |mitotic cell cycle phase transition| |cell cycle phase transition| |apoptotic signaling pathway| |protein serine/threonine kinase activity| |response to oxidative stress| |cell population proliferation| |hemopoiesis| |mitotic cell cycle process| |hematopoietic or lymphoid organ development| |positive regulation of apoptotic process| |immune system development| |positive regulation of programmed cell death| |mitotic cell cycle| |positive regulation of cell death| |calcium ion binding| |peptidyl-amino acid modification| |apoptotic process| |protein phosphorylation| |cell cycle process| |programmed cell death| |cell death| |phosphorylation| |cell cycle| |ATP binding| |regulation of apoptotic process| |regulation of programmed cell death| |regulation of cell death| |intracellular signal transduction| |cellular response to stress| |membrane| \\ === CRISPR Data === ^Screen^Score^ |[[:results:exp228|Demecolcine 0.03μM R05 exp228]]|-2.31| |[[:results:exp135|MS023 7μM R03 exp135]]|-1.83| No correlation found to any other genes in chemogenomics. Global Fraction of Cell Lines Where Essential: 1/739 ^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|1/21| |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**: 17822 * **Expression level (log2 read counts)**: 5.84 {{:chemogenomics:nalm6 dist.png?nolink |}}