======= PMCH =======
== Gene Information ==
* **Official Symbol**: PMCH
* **Official Name**: pro-melanin concentrating hormone
* **Aliases and Previous Symbols**: N/A
* **Entrez ID**: [[https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/gene/?term=5367|5367]]
* **UniProt**: [[https://www.uniprot.org/uniprot/P20382|P20382]]
* **Interactions**: [[https://thebiogrid.org/search.php?search=PMCH&organism=9606|BioGRID]]
* **PubMed articles**: [[https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=gene%20PMCH|Open PubMed]]
* **OMIM**: [[https://omim.org/entry/176795|Open OMIM]]
== Function Summary ==
* **Entrez Summary**: N/A
* **UniProt Summary**: MCH may act as a neurotransmitter or neuromodulator in a broad array of neuronal functions directed toward the regulation of goal-directed behavior, such as food intake, and general arousal. May also have a role in spermatocyte differentiation.
|Pro-MCH|
|type 1 melanin-concentrating hormone receptor binding|
|melanin-concentrating hormone activity|
|feeding behavior|
|neuropeptide signaling pathway|
|chemical synaptic transmission|
|anterograde trans-synaptic signaling|
|trans-synaptic signaling|
|synaptic signaling|
|spermatogenesis|
|male gamete generation|
|behavior|
|gamete generation|
|multicellular organismal reproductive process|
|sexual reproduction|
|multicellular organism reproduction|
|multi-organism reproductive process|
|cell-cell signaling|
|G protein-coupled receptor signaling pathway|
|reproductive process|
|reproduction|
|extracellular region|
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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**: 15723
* **Expression level (log2 read counts)**: -0.16
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