======= 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|
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=== 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
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