======= MT2A =======
== Gene Information ==
* **Official Symbol**: MT2A
* **Official Name**: metallothionein 2A
* **Aliases and Previous Symbols**: N/A
* **Entrez ID**: [[https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/gene/?term=4502|4502]]
* **UniProt**: [[https://www.uniprot.org/uniprot/P02795|P02795]]
* **Interactions**: [[https://thebiogrid.org/search.php?search=MT2A&organism=9606|BioGRID]]
* **PubMed articles**: [[https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=gene%20MT2A|Open PubMed]]
* **OMIM**: [[https://omim.org/entry/156360|Open OMIM]]
== Function Summary ==
* **Entrez Summary**: N/A
* **UniProt Summary**: Metallothioneins have a high content of cysteine residues that bind various heavy metals; these proteins are transcriptionally regulated by both heavy metals and glucocorticoids.
|Metallothio|
|cellular response to erythropoietin|
|response to erythropoietin|
|response to interleukin-3|
|cellular response to interleukin-3|
|cellular copper ion homeostasis|
|stress response to copper ion|
|detoxification of copper ion|
|copper ion homeostasis|
|detoxification of inorganic compound|
|stress response to metal ion|
|nitric oxide mediated signal transduction|
|cellular response to zinc ion|
|cellular response to copper ion|
|cellular zinc ion homeostasis|
|zinc ion homeostasis|
|cellular response to cadmium ion|
|response to copper ion|
|response to zinc ion|
|drug binding|
|response to cadmium ion|
|interferon-gamma-mediated signaling pathway|
|cellular transition metal ion homeostasis|
|detoxification|
|transition metal ion homeostasis|
|cellular response to interferon-gamma|
|response to interferon-gamma|
|cellular response to metal ion|
|cellular response to inorganic substance|
|negative regulation of growth|
|second-messenger-mediated signaling|
|response to metal ion|
|cellular response to drug|
|cellular divalent inorganic cation homeostasis|
|divalent inorganic cation homeostasis|
|response to toxic substance|
|response to inorganic substance|
|cellular metal ion homeostasis|
|metal ion homeostasis|
|cellular cation homeostasis|
|cellular ion homeostasis|
|regulation of growth|
|cytokine-mediated signaling pathway|
|response to bacterium|
|perinuclear region of cytoplasm|
|cation homeostasis|
|inorganic ion homeostasis|
|cellular chemical homeostasis|
|innate immune response|
|ion homeostasis|
|zinc ion binding|
|cellular homeostasis|
|defense response to other organism|
|cellular response to cytokine stimulus|
|response to drug|
|response to cytokine|
|chemical homeostasis|
|response to other organism|
|response to external biotic stimulus|
|response to biotic stimulus|
|defense response|
|homeostatic process|
|intracellular signal transduction|
|immune response|
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=== CRISPR Data ===
^Screen^Score^
|[[:results:exp462|Cadmium 60μM R08 exp462]]|-2.76|
No correlation found to any other genes in chemogenomics.
Global Fraction of Cell Lines Where Essential: 6/739
^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|1/16|
|kidney|0/21|
|liver|1/20|
|lung|0/75|
|lymphocyte|1/16|
|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|1/29|
|uterus|0/5|
== Essentiality in NALM6 ==
* **Essentiality Rank**: 6492
* **Expression level (log2 read counts)**: 4.68
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