======= PDF =======
== Gene Information ==
* **Official Symbol**: PDF
* **Official Name**: peptide deformylase, mitochondrial
* **Aliases and Previous Symbols**: N/A
* **Entrez ID**: [[https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/gene/?term=64146|64146]]
* **UniProt**: [[https://www.uniprot.org/uniprot/Q9HBH1|Q9HBH1]]
* **Interactions**: [[https://thebiogrid.org/search.php?search=PDF&organism=9606|BioGRID]]
* **PubMed articles**: [[https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=gene%20PDF|Open PubMed]]
* **OMIM**: [[https://omim.org/entry/618720|Open OMIM]]
== Function Summary ==
* **Entrez Summary**: Protein synthesis proceeds after formylation of methionine by methionyl-tRNA formyl transferase (FMT) and transfer of the charged initiator f-met tRNA to the ribosome. In eubacteria and eukaryotic organelles the product of this gene, peptide deformylase (PDF), removes the formyl group from the initiating methionine of nascent peptides. In eubacteria, deformylation of nascent peptides is required for subsequent cleavage of initiating methionines by methionine aminopeptidase. The discovery that a natural inhibitor of PDF, actinonin, acts as an antimicrobial agent in some bacteria has spurred intensive research into the design of bacterial-specific PDF inhibitors. In human cells, only mitochondrial proteins have N-formylation of initiating methionines. Protein inhibitors of PDF or siRNAs of PDF block the growth of cancer cell lines but have no effect on normal cell growth. In humans, PDF function may therefore be restricted to rapidly growing cells. [provided by RefSeq, Nov 2008].
* **UniProt Summary**: Removes the formyl group from the N-terminal Met of newly synthesized proteins. {ECO:0000250}.
|Pep deformylase|
|peptide deformylase activity|
|co-translational protein modification|
|peptidyl-methionine modification|
|N-terminal protein amino acid modification|
|translation|
|peptide biosynthetic process|
|amide biosynthetic process|
|peptide metabolic process|
|cellular amide metabolic process|
|peptidyl-amino acid modification|
|positive regulation of cell population proliferation|
|mitochondrion|
|organonitrogen compound biosynthetic process|
|regulation of cell population proliferation|
|cellular nitrogen compound biosynthetic process|
|cellular macromolecule biosynthetic process|
|macromolecule biosynthetic process|
|gene expression|
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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**: 12349
* **Expression level (log2 read counts)**: 4.27
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