======= 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.
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=== CRISPR Data ===
No hits were found.
No correlation found to any other genes in chemogenomics.
Global Fraction of Cell Lines Where Essential: N/A
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== Essentiality in NALM6 ==
* **Essentiality Rank**: 14166
* **Expression level (log2 read counts)**: -7.68
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