======= DES ======= == Gene Information == * **Official Symbol**: DES * **Official Name**: desmin * **Aliases and Previous Symbols**: N/A * **Entrez ID**: [[https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/gene/?term=1674|1674]] * **UniProt**: [[https://www.uniprot.org/uniprot/P17661|P17661]] * **Interactions**: [[https://thebiogrid.org/search.php?search=DES&organism=9606|BioGRID]] * **PubMed articles**: [[https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=gene%20DES|Open PubMed]] * **OMIM**: [[https://omim.org/entry/125660|Open OMIM]] == Function Summary == * **Entrez Summary**: This gene encodes a muscle-specific class III intermediate filament. Homopolymers of this protein form a stable intracytoplasmic filamentous network connecting myofibrils to each other and to the plasma membrane. Mutations in this gene are associated with desmin-related myopathy, a familial cardiac and skeletal myopathy (CSM), and with distal myopathies. [provided by RefSeq, Jul 2008]. * **UniProt Summary**: N/A |Filament head| |Filament| |cardiac myofibril| |fascia adherens| |intermediate filament organization| |actin-myosin filament sliding| |muscle filament sliding| |intercalated disc| |intermediate filament cytoskeleton| |intermediate filament cytoskeleton organization| |intermediate filament-based process| |cytoskeletal protein binding| |neuromuscular junction| |actin-mediated cell contraction| |sarcolemma| |structural constituent of cytoskeleton| |actin filament-based movement| |intermediate filament| |Z disc| |regulation of heart contraction| |muscle contraction| |regulation of blood circulation| |muscle system process| |supramolecular fiber organization| |actin filament-based process| |regulation of system process| |identical protein binding| |cytoskeleton organization| |movement of cell or subcellular component| |system process| \\ === CRISPR Data === ^Screen^Score^ |[[:results:exp53|Suberoylanilide-Hydroxamic-Acid 0.02μM R01 exp53]]|2.38| 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**: 13557 * **Expression level (log2 read counts)**: -1.04 {{:chemogenomics:nalm6 dist.png?nolink |}}