======= ST8SIA4 =======
== Gene Information ==
* **Official Symbol**: ST8SIA4
* **Official Name**: ST8 alpha-N-acetyl-neuraminide alpha-2,8-sialyltransferase 4
* **Aliases and Previous Symbols**: N/A
* **Entrez ID**: [[https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/gene/?term=7903|7903]]
* **UniProt**: [[https://www.uniprot.org/uniprot/Q92187|Q92187]]
* **Interactions**: [[https://thebiogrid.org/search.php?search=ST8SIA4&organism=9606|BioGRID]]
* **PubMed articles**: [[https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=gene%20ST8SIA4|Open PubMed]]
* **OMIM**: [[https://omim.org/entry/602547|Open OMIM]]
== Function Summary ==
* **Entrez Summary**: N/A
* **UniProt Summary**: Catalyzes the polycondensation of alpha-2,8-linked sialic acid required for the synthesis of polysialic acid (PSA), which is present on the embryonic neural cell adhesion molecule (N-CAM), necessary for plasticity of neural cells.
|Glyco transf 29|
|alpha-N-acetylneuraminate alpha-2,8-sialyltransferase activity|
|ganglioside biosynthetic process|
|sialic acid binding|
|N-glycan processing|
|ganglioside metabolic process|
|sialylation|
|glycosphingolipid biosynthetic process|
|ceramide biosynthetic process|
|oligosaccharide metabolic process|
|glycolipid biosynthetic process|
|glycosphingolipid metabolic process|
|ceramide metabolic process|
|sphingolipid biosynthetic process|
|glycolipid metabolic process|
|liposaccharide metabolic process|
|membrane lipid biosynthetic process|
|sphingolipid metabolic process|
|membrane lipid metabolic process|
|macromolecule glycosylation|
|protein glycosylation|
|glycosylation|
|glycoprotein biosynthetic process|
|glycoprotein metabolic process|
|carbohydrate metabolic process|
|amide biosynthetic process|
|lipid biosynthetic process|
|carbohydrate derivative biosynthetic process|
|Golgi membrane|
|cellular amide metabolic process|
|cellular lipid metabolic process|
|carbohydrate derivative metabolic process|
|lipid metabolic process|
|organonitrogen compound biosynthetic process|
|cellular nitrogen compound biosynthetic process|
|cellular macromolecule biosynthetic process|
|macromolecule biosynthetic process|
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=== CRISPR Data ===
^Screen^Score^
|[[:results:exp490|Hydroxychloroquine 30μM R08 exp490]]|-1.76|
|[[:results:exp518|RK-33 8μM R08 exp518]]|-1.7|
|[[:results:exp75|MK-1775 0.32μM R02 exp75]]|1.83|
|[[:results:exp122|Golgicide-A 4μM R03 exp122]]|1.87|
^Gene^Correlation^
|[[:human genes:r:rrm1|RRM1]]|0.425|
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**: 19046
* **Expression level (log2 read counts)**: 5.62
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