======= APOPT1 =======
== Gene Information ==
* **Official Symbol**: COA8
* **Official Name**: cytochrome c oxidase assembly factor 8
* **Aliases and Previous Symbols**: N/A
* **Entrez ID**: [[https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/gene/?term=84334|84334]]
* **UniProt**: [[https://www.uniprot.org/uniprot/Q96IL0|Q96IL0]]
* **Interactions**: [[https://thebiogrid.org/search.php?search=APOPT1&organism=9606|BioGRID]]
* **PubMed articles**: [[https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=gene%20APOPT1|Open PubMed]]
* **OMIM**: [[https://omim.org/entry/616003|Open OMIM]]
== Function Summary ==
* **Entrez Summary**: N/A
* **UniProt Summary**: Plays a role in the regulation of apoptosis. Mediates mitochondria-induced cell death in vascular smooth muscle cells through the release of cytochrome c from mitochondria, followed by the activation of the caspase cascade. {ECO:0000250|UniProtKB:Q9CQW7}.
|DUF2315|
|positive regulation of smooth muscle cell apoptotic process|
|regulation of smooth muscle cell apoptotic process|
|positive regulation of muscle cell apoptotic process|
|positive regulation of release of cytochrome c from mitochondria|
|regulation of release of cytochrome c from mitochondria|
|regulation of muscle cell apoptotic process|
|positive regulation of mitochondrion organization|
|positive regulation of cysteine-type endopeptidase activity involved in apoptotic process|
|intrinsic apoptotic signaling pathway|
|positive regulation of cysteine-type endopeptidase activity|
|positive regulation of endopeptidase activity|
|positive regulation of apoptotic signaling pathway|
|regulation of mitochondrion organization|
|positive regulation of peptidase activity|
|regulation of cysteine-type endopeptidase activity involved in apoptotic process|
|regulation of cysteine-type endopeptidase activity|
|apoptotic signaling pathway|
|positive regulation of proteolysis|
|regulation of apoptotic signaling pathway|
|regulation of endopeptidase activity|
|regulation of peptidase activity|
|positive regulation of organelle organization|
|positive regulation of apoptotic process|
|positive regulation of programmed cell death|
|positive regulation of cell death|
|regulation of proteolysis|
|positive regulation of hydrolase activity|
|apoptotic process|
|programmed cell death|
|cell death|
|positive regulation of cellular component organization|
|mitochondrion|
|regulation of hydrolase activity|
|regulation of organelle organization|
|positive regulation of catalytic activity|
|regulation of apoptotic process|
|regulation of programmed cell death|
|positive regulation of cellular protein metabolic process|
|positive regulation of signal transduction|
|regulation of cell death|
|intracellular signal transduction|
|positive regulation of protein metabolic process|
|positive regulation of molecular function|
|positive regulation of cell communication|
|positive regulation of signaling|
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=== 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**: 8328
* **Expression level (log2 read counts)**: 4.33
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