======= CERK ======= == Gene Information == * **Official Symbol**: CERK * **Official Name**: ceramide kinase * **Aliases and Previous Symbols**: N/A * **Entrez ID**: [[https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/gene/?term=64781|64781]] * **UniProt**: [[https://www.uniprot.org/uniprot/Q8TCT0|Q8TCT0]] * **Interactions**: [[https://thebiogrid.org/search.php?search=CERK&organism=9606|BioGRID]] * **PubMed articles**: [[https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=gene%20CERK|Open PubMed]] * **OMIM**: [[https://omim.org/entry/610307|Open OMIM]] == Function Summary == * **Entrez Summary**: N/A * **UniProt Summary**: Catalyzes specifically the phosphorylation of ceramide to form ceramide 1-phosphate. Acts efficiently on natural and analog ceramides (C6, C8, C16 ceramides, and C8-dihydroceramide), to a lesser extent on C2-ceramide and C6-dihydroceramide, but not on other lipids, such as various sphingosines. Binds phosphoinositides. {ECO:0000269|PubMed:19168031}. |DAGK cat| |dihydroceramide kinase activity| |ceramide kinase activity| |NAD+ kinase activity| |glycosphingolipid metabolic process| |lipid phosphorylation| |ceramide metabolic process| |glycolipid metabolic process| |liposaccharide metabolic process| |sphingolipid metabolic process| |lipid modification| |membrane lipid metabolic process| |magnesium ion binding| |cellular amide metabolic process| |cellular lipid metabolic process| |carbohydrate derivative metabolic process| |lipid metabolic process| |phosphorylation| |ATP binding| \\ === CRISPR Data === ^Screen^Score^ |[[:results:exp347|Cyclosporin-A 0.8μM R07 exp347]]|-2.03| |[[:results:exp233|EPZ-5676 30μM R05 exp233]]|-1.95| |[[:results:exp120|Dimethyl-Sulfoxide 1pc R03 exp120]]|-1.78| |[[:results:exp71|KU-0063794 3.8μM R02 exp71]]|-1.74| |[[:results:exp249|Vinorelbine 0.001μM R05 exp249]]|1.75| |[[:results:exp436|Dynasore 7μM R08 exp436]]|1.82| |[[:results:exp474|CR131-b 0.005μM R08 exp474]]|2.04| |[[:results:exp21|MLN-4924 0.2μM R00 exp21]]|2.05| |[[:results:exp356|Docosahexaenoic-acid 50μM R07 exp356]]|2.12| |[[:results:exp432|YM155 0.001μM R08 exp432]]|2.19| 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**: 8839 * **Expression level (log2 read counts)**: 5.98 {{:chemogenomics:nalm6 dist.png?nolink |}}