======= ST8SIA2 =======


== Gene Information ==
  * **<color #00a2e8>Official Symbol</color>**: ST8SIA2
  * **<color #00a2e8>Official Name</color>**: ST8 alpha-N-acetyl-neuraminide alpha-2,8-sialyltransferase 2
  * **<color #00a2e8>Aliases and Previous Symbols</color>**: N/A
  * **<color #00a2e8>Entrez ID</color>**: [[https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/gene/?term=8128|8128]]
  * **<color #00a2e8>UniProt</color>**: [[https://www.uniprot.org/uniprot/Q92186|Q92186]]
  * **<color #00a2e8>Interactions</color>**: [[https://thebiogrid.org/search.php?search=ST8SIA2&organism=9606|BioGRID]]
  * **<color #00a2e8>PubMed articles</color>**: [[https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=gene%20ST8SIA2|Open PubMed]]
  * **<color #00a2e8>OMIM</color>**: [[https://omim.org/entry/602546|Open OMIM]]

== Function Summary ==
  * **<color #00a2e8>Entrez Summary</color>**: N/A
  * **<color #00a2e8>UniProt Summary</color>**:  May transfer sialic acid through alpha-2,8-linkages to the alpha-2,3-linked and alpha-2,6-linked sialic acid of N-linked oligosaccharides of glycoproteins and may be involved in PSA (polysialic acid) expression.

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|Glyco transf 29|
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|alpha-N-acetylneuraminate alpha-2,8-sialyltransferase activity|
|ganglioside biosynthetic process|
|sialic acid binding|
|N-glycan processing|
|ganglioside metabolic process|
|sialylation|
|glycosphingolipid biosynthetic process|
|ceramide biosynthetic process|
|oligosaccharide metabolic process|
|glycolipid biosynthetic process|
|glycosphingolipid metabolic process|
|ceramide metabolic process|
|sphingolipid biosynthetic process|
|glycolipid metabolic process|
|liposaccharide metabolic process|
|recycling endosome|
|membrane lipid biosynthetic process|
|sphingolipid metabolic process|
|membrane lipid metabolic process|
|early endosome|
|protein glycosylation|
|macromolecule glycosylation|
|glycosylation|
|glycoprotein biosynthetic process|
|glycoprotein metabolic process|
|carbohydrate metabolic process|
|amide biosynthetic process|
|lipid biosynthetic process|
|carbohydrate derivative biosynthetic process|
|Golgi membrane|
|cellular amide metabolic process|
|cellular lipid metabolic process|
|carbohydrate derivative metabolic process|
|lipid metabolic process|
|organonitrogen compound biosynthetic process|
|cellular nitrogen compound biosynthetic process|
|cellular macromolecule biosynthetic process|
|macromolecule biosynthetic process|
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 === CRISPR Data ===
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No hits were found.
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No correlation found to any other genes in chemogenomics.
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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|
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== Essentiality in NALM6  ==
    * **<color #00a2e8>Essentiality Rank</color>**: 6731
    * **<color #00a2e8>Expression level (log2 read counts)</color>**: -1.26 
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