======= HAL =======
== Gene Information ==
* **Official Symbol**: HAL
* **Official Name**: histidine ammonia-lyase
* **Aliases and Previous Symbols**: N/A
* **Entrez ID**: [[https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/gene/?term=3034|3034]]
* **UniProt**: [[https://www.uniprot.org/uniprot/P42357|P42357]]
* **Interactions**: [[https://thebiogrid.org/search.php?search=HAL&organism=9606|BioGRID]]
* **PubMed articles**: [[https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=gene%20HAL|Open PubMed]]
* **OMIM**: [[https://omim.org/entry/609457|Open OMIM]]
== Function Summary ==
* **Entrez Summary**: Histidine ammonia-lyase is a cytosolic enzyme catalyzing the first reaction in histidine catabolism, the nonoxidative deamination of L-histidine to trans-urocanic acid. Histidine ammonia-lyase defects cause histidinemia which is characterized by increased histidine and histamine and decreased urocanic acid in body fluids. Several transcript variants encoding different isoforms have been found for this gene. [provided by RefSeq, Apr 2012].
* **UniProt Summary**: N/A
|PAL|
|histidine ammonia-lyase activity|
|histidine catabolic process to glutamate and formate|
|formamide metabolic process|
|histidine catabolic process to glutamate and formamide|
|formate metabolic process|
|histidine catabolic process|
|imidazole-containing compound catabolic process|
|histidine metabolic process|
|imidazole-containing compound metabolic process|
|aromatic amino acid family catabolic process|
|glutamate metabolic process|
|aromatic amino acid family metabolic process|
|glutamine family amino acid metabolic process|
|dicarboxylic acid metabolic process|
|antibiotic metabolic process|
|alpha-amino acid catabolic process|
|cellular amino acid catabolic process|
|alpha-amino acid metabolic process|
|carboxylic acid catabolic process|
|organic acid catabolic process|
|cellular amino acid metabolic process|
|heterocycle catabolic process|
|cellular nitrogen compound catabolic process|
|small molecule catabolic process|
|aromatic compound catabolic process|
|organic cyclic compound catabolic process|
|drug metabolic process|
|monocarboxylic acid metabolic process|
|cellular amide metabolic process|
|carboxylic acid metabolic process|
|oxoacid metabolic process|
|organic acid metabolic process|
|organonitrogen compound catabolic process|
|small molecule metabolic process|
|organic substance catabolic process|
|cellular catabolic 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**: 6448
* **Expression level (log2 read counts)**: 0.24
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