======= DEFA1B ======= == Gene Information == * **Official Symbol**: DEFA1B * **Official Name**: defensin alpha 1B * **Aliases and Previous Symbols**: N/A * **Entrez ID**: [[https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/gene/?term=728358|728358]] * **UniProt**: [[https://www.uniprot.org/uniprot/P59665|P59665]] * **Interactions**: [[https://thebiogrid.org/search.php?search=DEFA1B&organism=9606|BioGRID]] * **PubMed articles**: [[https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=gene%20DEFA1B|Open PubMed]] * **OMIM**: N/A == Function Summary == * **Entrez Summary**: N/A * **UniProt Summary**: Defensin 1 and defensin 2 have antibacterial, fungicide and antiviral activities. Has antimicrobial activity against Gram- negative and Gram-positive bacteria. Defensins are thought to kill microbes by permeabilizing their plasma membrane. {ECO:0000269|PubMed:15616305, ECO:0000269|PubMed:17452329}. |Defensin propep| |Defensin 1| No GO term information is available for this gene. \\ === 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**: 14166 * **Expression level (log2 read counts)**: -7.68 {{:chemogenomics:nalm6 dist.png?nolink |}}