======= MEF2B =======
== Gene Information ==
* **Official Symbol**: MEF2B
* **Official Name**: myocyte enhancer factor 2B
* **Aliases and Previous Symbols**: N/A
* **Entrez ID**: [[https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/gene/?term=100271849|100271849]]
* **UniProt**: [[https://www.uniprot.org/uniprot/Q02080|Q02080]]
* **Interactions**: [[https://thebiogrid.org/search.php?search=MEF2B&organism=9606|BioGRID]]
* **PubMed articles**: [[https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=gene%20MEF2B|Open PubMed]]
* **OMIM**: [[https://omim.org/entry/600661|Open OMIM]]
== Function Summary ==
* **Entrez Summary**: N/A
* **UniProt Summary**: Transcriptional activator which binds specifically to the MEF2 element, 5'-YTA[AT](4)TAR-3', found in numerous muscle- specific genes. Activates transcription via this element. May be involved in muscle-specific and/or growth factor-related transcription.
|SRF-TF|
|histone deacetylase binding|
|protein dimerization activity|
|transcription factor complex|
|nuclear chromatin|
|muscle organ development|
|DNA-binding transcription activator activity, RNA polymerase II-specific|
|muscle structure development|
|RNA polymerase II proximal promoter sequence-specific DNA binding|
|DNA-binding transcription factor activity|
|positive regulation of transcription by RNA polymerase II|
|positive regulation of transcription, DNA-templated|
|DNA-binding transcription factor activity, RNA polymerase II-specific|
|positive regulation of nucleic acid-templated transcription|
|positive regulation of RNA biosynthetic process|
|positive regulation of RNA metabolic process|
|positive regulation of nucleobase-containing compound metabolic process|
|positive regulation of macromolecule biosynthetic process|
|positive regulation of cellular biosynthetic process|
|positive regulation of gene expression|
|positive regulation of biosynthetic process|
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=== CRISPR Data ===
^Screen^Score^
|[[:results:exp139|Nicotinamide Riboside 100μM R03 exp139]]|-1.72|
No correlation found to any other genes in chemogenomics.
Global Fraction of Cell Lines Where Essential: 4/739
^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|2/16|
|ovary|0/26|
|pancreas|0/24|
|peripheral nervous system|0/16|
|plasma cell|1/15|
|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**: 5420
* **Expression level (log2 read counts)**: 0.83
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