======= LGALS8 =======
== Gene Information ==
* **Official Symbol**: LGALS8
* **Official Name**: galectin 8
* **Aliases and Previous Symbols**: N/A
* **Entrez ID**: [[https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/gene/?term=3964|3964]]
* **UniProt**: [[https://www.uniprot.org/uniprot/O00214|O00214]]
* **Interactions**: [[https://thebiogrid.org/search.php?search=LGALS8&organism=9606|BioGRID]]
* **PubMed articles**: [[https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=gene%20LGALS8|Open PubMed]]
* **OMIM**: [[https://omim.org/entry/606099|Open OMIM]]
== Function Summary ==
* **Entrez Summary**: N/A
* **UniProt Summary**: N/A
|Gal-bind lectin|
|lymphatic endothelial cell migration|
|xenophagy|
|lymph vessel morphogenesis|
|selective autophagy|
|lymph vessel development|
|cellular response to virus|
|endothelial cell migration|
|epithelial cell migration|
|epithelium migration|
|tissue migration|
|integrin binding|
|macroautophagy|
|ameboidal-type cell migration|
|carbohydrate binding|
|cytoplasmic vesicle|
|autophagy|
|process utilizing autophagic mechanism|
|response to virus|
|vasculature development|
|cardiovascular system development|
|circulatory system development|
|defense response to other organism|
|cell migration|
|cell motility|
|localization of cell|
|response to other organism|
|response to external biotic stimulus|
|locomotion|
|response to biotic stimulus|
|defense response|
|movement of cell or subcellular component|
|extracellular space|
|cellular catabolic process|
|membrane|
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=== CRISPR Data ===
^Screen^Score^
|[[:results:exp24|Nocodazole 0.2μM R00 exp24]]|-1.71|
^Gene^Correlation^
|[[:human genes:h:hgc6.3|HGC6.3]]|0.418|
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**: 18697
* **Expression level (log2 read counts)**: 6.58
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