======= SQLE =======
== Gene Information ==
* **Official Symbol**: SQLE
* **Official Name**: squalene epoxidase
* **Aliases and Previous Symbols**: N/A
* **Entrez ID**: [[https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/gene/?term=6713|6713]]
* **UniProt**: [[https://www.uniprot.org/uniprot/Q14534|Q14534]]
* **Interactions**: [[https://thebiogrid.org/search.php?search=SQLE&organism=9606|BioGRID]]
* **PubMed articles**: [[https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=gene%20SQLE|Open PubMed]]
* **OMIM**: [[https://omim.org/entry/602019|Open OMIM]]
== Function Summary ==
* **Entrez Summary**: N/A
* **UniProt Summary**: Catalyzes the first oxygenation step in sterol biosynthesis and is suggested to be one of the rate-limiting enzymes in this pathway.
|FAD binding 3|
|SE|
|squalene monooxygenase activity|
|lipid droplet formation|
|lipid droplet organization|
|lipid storage|
|FAD binding|
|cholesterol biosynthetic process|
|regulation of sterol biosynthetic process|
|secondary alcohol biosynthetic process|
|regulation of cholesterol biosynthetic process|
|sterol biosynthetic process|
|regulation of cholesterol metabolic process|
|regulation of alcohol biosynthetic process|
|regulation of steroid biosynthetic process|
|alcohol biosynthetic process|
|regulation of steroid metabolic process|
|cholesterol metabolic process|
|steroid biosynthetic process|
|secondary alcohol metabolic process|
|sterol metabolic process|
|maintenance of location|
|organic hydroxy compound biosynthetic process|
|regulation of lipid biosynthetic process|
|steroid metabolic process|
|alcohol metabolic process|
|lipid localization|
|regulation of lipid metabolic process|
|regulation of small molecule metabolic process|
|organic hydroxy compound metabolic process|
|lipid biosynthetic process|
|small molecule biosynthetic process|
|intracellular membrane-bounded organelle|
|organelle assembly|
|endoplasmic reticulum membrane|
|oxidation-reduction process|
|endoplasmic reticulum|
|lipid metabolic process|
|organic cyclic compound biosynthetic process|
|regulation of cell population proliferation|
|small molecule metabolic process|
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=== CRISPR Data ===
^Screen^Score^
|[[:results:exp282|Fluvastatin 2.2μM R06 exp282]]|-3.16|
|[[:results:exp444|THZ531 0.225μM R08 exp444]]|-1.99|
No correlation found to any other genes in chemogenomics.
Global Fraction of Cell Lines Where Essential: 8/739
^Tissue^Fraction Of Cell Lines Where Essential^
|1290807.0|0/1|
|909776.0|0/1|
|bile duct|1/28|
|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|0/20|
|lung|2/75|
|lymphocyte|0/16|
|ovary|1/26|
|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**: 10393
* **Expression level (log2 read counts)**: 6.79
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