======= DEGS2 ======= == Gene Information == * **Official Symbol**: DEGS2 * **Official Name**: delta 4-desaturase, sphingolipid 2 * **Aliases and Previous Symbols**: N/A * **Entrez ID**: [[https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/gene/?term=123099|123099]] * **UniProt**: [[https://www.uniprot.org/uniprot/Q6QHC5|Q6QHC5]] * **Interactions**: [[https://thebiogrid.org/search.php?search=DEGS2&organism=9606|BioGRID]] * **PubMed articles**: [[https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=gene%20DEGS2|Open PubMed]] * **OMIM**: [[https://omim.org/entry/610862|Open OMIM]] == Function Summary == * **Entrez Summary**: N/A * **UniProt Summary**: Bifunctional enzyme which acts as both a sphingolipid delta(4)-desaturase and a sphingolipid C4-monooxygenase. {ECO:0000269|PubMed:15063729}. |FA desaturase| |Lipid DES| |sphingosine hydroxylase activity| |sphingolipid delta-4 desaturase activity| |sphinganine metabolic process| |sphingoid metabolic process| |diol metabolic process| |ceramide biosynthetic process| |ceramide metabolic process| |sphingolipid biosynthetic process| |polyol metabolic process| |membrane lipid biosynthetic process| |sphingolipid metabolic process| |ammonium ion metabolic process| |membrane lipid metabolic process| |alcohol metabolic process| |organic hydroxy compound metabolic process| |amide biosynthetic process| |lipid biosynthetic process| |cellular amide metabolic process| |endoplasmic reticulum membrane| |cellular lipid metabolic process| |oxidation-reduction process| |lipid metabolic process| |organonitrogen compound biosynthetic process| |cellular nitrogen compound biosynthetic process| |small molecule metabolic process| \\ === CRISPR Data === No hits were found. 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**: 6810 * **Expression level (log2 read counts)**: 0.25 {{:chemogenomics:nalm6 dist.png?nolink |}}