======= GAMT =======
== Gene Information ==
* **Official Symbol**: GAMT
* **Official Name**: guanidinoacetate N-methyltransferase
* **Aliases and Previous Symbols**: N/A
* **Entrez ID**: [[https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/gene/?term=2593|2593]]
* **UniProt**: [[https://www.uniprot.org/uniprot/Q14353|Q14353]]
* **Interactions**: [[https://thebiogrid.org/search.php?search=GAMT&organism=9606|BioGRID]]
* **PubMed articles**: [[https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=gene%20GAMT|Open PubMed]]
* **OMIM**: [[https://omim.org/entry/601240|Open OMIM]]
== Function Summary ==
* **Entrez Summary**: The protein encoded by this gene is a methyltransferase that converts guanidoacetate to creatine, using S-adenosylmethionine as the methyl donor. Defects in this gene have been implicated in neurologic syndromes and muscular hypotonia, probably due to creatine deficiency and accumulation of guanidinoacetate in the brain of affected individuals. Two transcript variants encoding different isoforms have been described for this gene. Pseudogenes of this gene are found on chromosomes 2 and 13. [provided by RefSeq, Feb 2012].
* **UniProt Summary**: Converts guanidinoacetate to creatine, using S- adenosylmethionine as the methyl donor (PubMed:26003046, PubMed:24415674, PubMed:26319512). Important in nervous system development (PubMed:24415674). {ECO:0000269|PubMed:24415674, ECO:0000269|PubMed:26003046, ECO:0000269|PubMed:26319512}.
No Pfam Domain information is available for this gene.
|guanidinoacetate N-methyltransferase activity|
|creatine biosynthetic process|
|S-adenosylhomocysteine metabolic process|
|creatine metabolic process|
|S-adenosylmethionine-dependent methyltransferase activity|
|S-adenosylmethionine metabolic process|
|cellular modified amino acid biosynthetic process|
|methyltransferase activity|
|purine ribonucleoside metabolic process|
|purine nucleoside metabolic process|
|regulation of multicellular organism growth|
|ribonucleoside metabolic process|
|nucleoside metabolic process|
|glycosyl compound metabolic process|
|monocarboxylic acid biosynthetic process|
|cellular modified amino acid metabolic process|
|alpha-amino acid metabolic process|
|coenzyme metabolic process|
|muscle contraction|
|muscle system process|
|carboxylic acid biosynthetic process|
|organic acid biosynthetic process|
|cellular amino acid metabolic process|
|methylation|
|regulation of developmental growth|
|sulfur compound metabolic process|
|purine-containing compound metabolic process|
|cofactor metabolic process|
|drug metabolic process|
|monocarboxylic acid metabolic process|
|nucleobase-containing small molecule metabolic process|
|spermatogenesis|
|male gamete generation|
|small molecule biosynthetic process|
|regulation of growth|
|gamete generation|
|multicellular organismal reproductive process|
|sexual reproduction|
|multicellular organism reproduction|
|carboxylic acid metabolic process|
|animal organ morphogenesis|
|multi-organism reproductive process|
|oxoacid metabolic process|
|organic acid metabolic process|
|carbohydrate derivative metabolic process|
|organonitrogen compound biosynthetic process|
|reproductive process|
|reproduction|
|small molecule metabolic process|
|system process|
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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: 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**: 8444
* **Expression level (log2 read counts)**: 4.64
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