======= TKTL2 ======= == Gene Information == * **Official Symbol**: TKTL2 * **Official Name**: transketolase like 2 * **Aliases and Previous Symbols**: N/A * **Entrez ID**: [[https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/gene/?term=84076|84076]] * **UniProt**: [[https://www.uniprot.org/uniprot/Q9H0I9|Q9H0I9]] * **Interactions**: [[https://thebiogrid.org/search.php?search=TKTL2&organism=9606|BioGRID]] * **PubMed articles**: [[https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=gene%20TKTL2|Open PubMed]] * **OMIM**: N/A == Function Summary == * **Entrez Summary**: N/A * **UniProt Summary**: Plays an essential role in total transketolase activity and cell proliferation in cancer cells; after transfection with anti-TKTL1 siRNA, total transketolase activity dramatically decreases and proliferation was significantly inhibited in cancer cells. Plays a pivotal role in carcinogenesis. {ECO:0000269|PubMed:17321041}. |E1 dh| |Transket pyr| |Transketolase C| |Transketolase N| |transketolase activity| \\ === CRISPR Data === ^Screen^Score^ |[[:results:exp129|Isonicotinamide 500μM R03 exp129]]|-2.35| |[[:results:exp475|CyclicAMP 200μM R08 exp475]]|1.76| 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**: 14811 * **Expression level (log2 read counts)**: -6.6 {{:chemogenomics:nalm6 dist.png?nolink |}}