======= GC =======
== Gene Information ==
* **Official Symbol**: GC
* **Official Name**: GC vitamin D binding protein
* **Aliases and Previous Symbols**: N/A
* **Entrez ID**: [[https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/gene/?term=2638|2638]]
* **UniProt**: [[https://www.uniprot.org/uniprot/P02774|P02774]]
* **Interactions**: [[https://thebiogrid.org/search.php?search=GC&organism=9606|BioGRID]]
* **PubMed articles**: [[https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=gene%20GC|Open PubMed]]
* **OMIM**: [[https://omim.org/entry/139200|Open OMIM]]
== Function Summary ==
* **Entrez Summary**: The protein encoded by this gene belongs to the albumin gene family. It is a multifunctional protein found in plasma, ascitic fluid, cerebrospinal fluid and on the surface of many cell types. It binds to vitamin D and its plasma metabolites and transports them to target tissues. Alternatively spliced transcript variants encoding different isoforms have been found for this gene.[provided by RefSeq, Feb 2011].
* **UniProt Summary**: Involved in vitamin D transport and storage, scavenging of extracellular G-actin, enhancement of the chemotactic activity of C5 alpha for neutrophils in inflammation and macrophage activation. {ECO:0000305|PubMed:16302727}.
|Serum albumin|
|VitD-bind III|
|calcidiol binding|
|vitamin transmembrane transporter activity|
|vitamin D binding|
|vitamin D metabolic process|
|vitamin transmembrane transport|
|fat-soluble vitamin metabolic process|
|vitamin transport|
|lysosomal lumen|
|vitamin metabolic process|
|blood microparticle|
|steroid metabolic process|
|actin binding|
|organic hydroxy compound metabolic process|
|lipid metabolic process|
|transmembrane transport|
|extracellular space|
|small molecule metabolic process|
|extracellular region|
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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**: 17745
* **Expression level (log2 read counts)**: -7.68
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