======= GALM =======
== Gene Information ==
* **Official Symbol**: GALM
* **Official Name**: galactose mutarotase
* **Aliases and Previous Symbols**: N/A
* **Entrez ID**: [[https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/gene/?term=130589|130589]]
* **UniProt**: [[https://www.uniprot.org/uniprot/Q96C23|Q96C23]]
* **Interactions**: [[https://thebiogrid.org/search.php?search=GALM&organism=9606|BioGRID]]
* **PubMed articles**: [[https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=gene%20GALM|Open PubMed]]
* **OMIM**: [[https://omim.org/entry/137030|Open OMIM]]
== Function Summary ==
* **Entrez Summary**: N/A
* **UniProt Summary**: Mutarotase converts alpha-aldose to the beta-anomer. It is active on D-glucose, L-arabinose, D-xylose, D-galactose, maltose and lactose (By similarity). {ECO:0000250, ECO:0000269|PubMed:12753898, ECO:0000269|PubMed:15026423}.
|Aldose epim|
|aldose 1-epimerase activity|
|galactose catabolic process via UDP-galactose|
|galactose catabolic process|
|galactose metabolic process|
|hexose catabolic process|
|monosaccharide catabolic process|
|glucose metabolic process|
|carbohydrate catabolic process|
|hexose metabolic process|
|carbohydrate binding|
|monosaccharide metabolic process|
|small molecule catabolic process|
|carbohydrate metabolic process|
|small molecule metabolic process|
|organic substance catabolic process|
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=== CRISPR Data ===
^Screen^Score^
|[[:results:exp330|5-Azacytidine 2μM R07 exp330]]|1.7|
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**: 13966
* **Expression level (log2 read counts)**: 3.33
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