======= CAPN8 ======= == Gene Information == * **Official Symbol**: CAPN8 * **Official Name**: calpain 8 * **Aliases and Previous Symbols**: N/A * **Entrez ID**: [[https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/gene/?term=388743|388743]] * **UniProt**: [[https://www.uniprot.org/uniprot/A6NHC0|A6NHC0]] * **Interactions**: [[https://thebiogrid.org/search.php?search=CAPN8&organism=9606|BioGRID]] * **PubMed articles**: [[https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=gene%20CAPN8|Open PubMed]] * **OMIM**: [[https://omim.org/entry/618777|Open OMIM]] == Function Summary == * **Entrez Summary**: N/A * **UniProt Summary**: Calcium-regulated non-lysosomal thiol-protease. Involved in membrane trafficking in the gastric surface mucus cells (pit cells) and may involve the membrane trafficking of mucus cells via interactions with coat protein. Proteolytically cleaves the beta- subunit of coatomer complex (By similarity). {ECO:0000250}. |Calpain III| |Peptidase C2| |calcium-dependent cysteine-type endopeptidase activity| |digestion| |calcium ion binding| |Golgi apparatus| |proteolysis| \\ === CRISPR Data === No hits were found. No correlation found to any other genes in chemogenomics. Global Fraction of Cell Lines Where Essential: N/A ^Tissue^Fraction Of Cell Lines Where Essential^ == Essentiality in NALM6 == * **Essentiality Rank**: 14569 * **Expression level (log2 read counts)**: 0.28 {{:chemogenomics:nalm6 dist.png?nolink |}}