======= OAT ======= == Gene Information == * **Official Symbol**: OAT * **Official Name**: ornithine aminotransferase * **Aliases and Previous Symbols**: N/A * **Entrez ID**: [[https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/gene/?term=4942|4942]] * **UniProt**: [[https://www.uniprot.org/uniprot/P04181|P04181]] * **Interactions**: [[https://thebiogrid.org/search.php?search=OAT&organism=9606|BioGRID]] * **PubMed articles**: [[https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=gene%20OAT|Open PubMed]] * **OMIM**: [[https://omim.org/entry/613349|Open OMIM]] == Function Summary == * **Entrez Summary**: This gene encodes the mitochondrial enzyme ornithine aminotransferase, which is a key enzyme in the pathway that converts arginine and ornithine into the major excitatory and inhibitory neurotransmitters glutamate and GABA. Mutations that result in a deficiency of this enzyme cause the autosomal recessive eye disease Gyrate Atrophy. Alternatively spliced transcript variants encoding different isoforms have been described. Related pseudogenes have been defined on the X chromosome. [provided by RefSeq, Jan 2010]. * **UniProt Summary**: N/A |Aminotran 3| |arginine catabolic process to glutamate| |ornithine-oxo-acid transaminase activity| |arginine catabolic process to proline| |arginine catabolic process to proline via ornithine| |proline biosynthetic process| |L-proline biosynthetic process| |arginine catabolic process| |proline metabolic process| |protein hexamerization| |arginine metabolic process| |glutamine family amino acid biosynthetic process| |glutamine family amino acid catabolic process| |glutamate metabolic process| |pyridoxal phosphate binding| |alpha-amino acid biosynthetic process| |glutamine family amino acid metabolic process| |cellular amino acid biosynthetic process| |dicarboxylic acid metabolic process| |alpha-amino acid catabolic process| |cellular amino acid catabolic process| |alpha-amino acid metabolic process| |visual perception| |sensory perception of light stimulus| |carboxylic acid catabolic process| |organic acid catabolic process| |carboxylic acid biosynthetic process| |organic acid biosynthetic process| |cellular amino acid metabolic process| |mitochondrial matrix| |small molecule catabolic process| |drug metabolic process| |protein complex oligomerization| |small molecule biosynthetic process| |carboxylic acid metabolic process| |sensory perception| |oxoacid metabolic process| |organic acid metabolic process| |organonitrogen compound catabolic process| |heterocycle biosynthetic process| |mitochondrion| |organic cyclic compound biosynthetic process| |nervous system process| |organonitrogen compound biosynthetic process| |protein-containing complex assembly| |small molecule metabolic process| |organic substance catabolic process| |cellular catabolic process| |protein-containing complex subunit organization| |system process| \\ === CRISPR Data === ^Screen^Score^ |[[:results:exp164|Q15 1 to 2μM on day4 R04 exp164]]|-2.3| |[[:results:exp46|HMS-I1 1μM R01 exp46]]|-2.06| |[[:results:exp365|I-BRD9 4μM R07 exp365]]|-1.76| |[[:results:exp97|BI-6727 0.0125μM R03 exp97]]|2.01| No correlation found to any other genes in chemogenomics. Global Fraction of Cell Lines Where Essential: 0/726 ^Tissue^Fraction Of Cell Lines Where Essential^ |1290807.0|0/1| |909776.0|0/1| |bile duct|0/28| |blood|0/28| |bone|0/25| |breast|0/33| |central nervous system|0/56| |cervix|0/4| |colorectal|0/17| |esophagus|0/13| |fibroblast|0/1| |gastric|0/15| |kidney|0/21| |liver|0/20| |lung|0/75| |lymphocyte|0/14| |ovary|0/26| |pancreas|0/24| |peripheral nervous system|0/16| |plasma cell|0/15| |prostate|0/1| |skin|0/24| |soft tissue|0/7| |thyroid|0/2| |upper aerodigestive|0/22| |urinary tract|0/29| |uterus|0/5| == Essentiality in NALM6 == * **Essentiality Rank**: 18512 * **Expression level (log2 read counts)**: 5.92 {{:chemogenomics:nalm6 dist.png?nolink |}}