======= DCAF8 =======
== Gene Information ==
* **Official Symbol**: DCAF8
* **Official Name**: DDB1 and CUL4 associated factor 8
* **Aliases and Previous Symbols**: N/A
* **Entrez ID**: [[https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/gene/?term=50717|50717]]
* **UniProt**: [[https://www.uniprot.org/uniprot/Q5TAQ9|Q5TAQ9]]
* **Interactions**: [[https://thebiogrid.org/search.php?search=DCAF8&organism=9606|BioGRID]]
* **PubMed articles**: [[https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=gene%20DCAF8|Open PubMed]]
* **OMIM**: [[https://omim.org/entry/615820|Open OMIM]]
== Function Summary ==
* **Entrez Summary**: This gene encodes a WD repeat-containing protein that interacts with the Cul4-Ddb1 E3 ligase macromolecular complex. Multiple alternatively spliced transcript variants have been found for this gene. [provided by RefSeq, Jul 2009].
* **UniProt Summary**: May function as a substrate receptor for CUL4-DDB1 E3 ubiquitin-protein ligase complex. {ECO:0000269|PubMed:16949367, ECO:0000269|PubMed:16964240}.
|WD40|
|Cul4-RING E3 ubiquitin ligase complex|
|post-translational protein modification|
|protein ubiquitination|
|protein modification by small protein conjugation|
|protein modification by small protein conjugation or removal|
|mitochondrion|
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=== CRISPR Data ===
^Screen^Score^
|[[:results:exp30|Rapamycin 10μM R00 exp30]]|-2.22|
|[[:results:exp78|Pterostilbene 16μM R02 exp78]]|-1.96|
|[[:results:exp350|Deferoxamine 11μM R07 exp350]]|1.75|
|[[:results:exp524|Staurosporine 0.02μM R08 exp524]]|1.99|
|[[:results:exp66|BI-D1870 3.15μM R02 exp66]]|2.02|
|[[:results:exp283|Glyphosate 1000μM R06 exp283]]|2.71|
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**: 18492
* **Expression level (log2 read counts)**: 7.36
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