======= CERS6 ======= == Gene Information == * **Official Symbol**: CERS6 * **Official Name**: ceramide synthase 6 * **Aliases and Previous Symbols**: N/A * **Entrez ID**: [[https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/gene/?term=253782|253782]] * **UniProt**: [[https://www.uniprot.org/uniprot/Q6ZMG9|Q6ZMG9]] * **Interactions**: [[https://thebiogrid.org/search.php?search=CERS6&organism=9606|BioGRID]] * **PubMed articles**: [[https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=gene%20CERS6|Open PubMed]] * **OMIM**: [[https://omim.org/entry/615336|Open OMIM]] == Function Summary == * **Entrez Summary**: N/A * **UniProt Summary**: May be involved in sphingolipid synthesis or its regulation. {ECO:0000250}. |Homeobox| |TRAM LAG1 CLN8| |sphingosine N-acyltransferase activity| |ceramide biosynthetic process| |ceramide metabolic process| |sphingolipid biosynthetic process| |membrane lipid biosynthetic process| |sphingolipid metabolic process| |membrane lipid metabolic process| |nuclear membrane| |amide biosynthetic process| |lipid biosynthetic process| |cellular amide metabolic process| |endoplasmic reticulum membrane| |cellular lipid metabolic process| |endoplasmic reticulum| |lipid metabolic process| |organonitrogen compound biosynthetic process| |DNA binding| |DNA-binding transcription factor activity, RNA polymerase II-specific| |cellular nitrogen compound biosynthetic process| |membrane| \\ === CRISPR Data === ^Screen^Score^ |[[:results:exp35|TRAIL 5ng/ml R00 exp35]]|-2.42| |[[:results:exp36|TRAIL 50ng/ml R00 exp36]]|-2.29| |[[:results:exp514|Phorbol-12-myristate-13-acetate 0.57μM R08 exp514]]|-2.26| |[[:results:exp431|Rotenone 0.07μM R08 exp431]]|-1.88| |[[:results:exp420|Tunicamycin 0.04 to 0.125μM on day4 R07 exp420]]|-1.85| |[[:results:exp352|Dexamethasone 0.006 to 0.015μM on day4 R07 exp352]]|1.86| |[[:results:exp436|Dynasore 7μM R08 exp436]]|2.05| |[[:results:exp416|Tubacin 1.6μM R07 exp416]]|2.58| 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**: 15343 * **Expression level (log2 read counts)**: 7.61 {{:chemogenomics:nalm6 dist.png?nolink |}}