======= 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|
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=== 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
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