CHKB

Entrez Summary: Choline kinase (CK) and ethanolamine kinase (EK) catalyze the phosphorylation of choline/ethanolamine to phosphocholine/phosphoethanolamine. This is the first enzyme in the biosynthesis of phosphatidylcholine/phosphatidylethanolamine in all animal cells. The highly purified CKs from mammalian sources and their recombinant gene products have been shown to have EK activity also, indicating that both activities reside on the same protein. The choline kinase-like protein encoded by CHKL belongs to the choline/ethanolamine kinase family; however, its exact function is not known. Read-through transcripts are expressed from this locus that include exons from the downstream CPT1B locus. [provided by RefSeq, Jun 2009].
UniProt Summary: Has a key role in phospholipid biosynthesis. Catalyzes the first step in phosphatidylethanolamine biosynthesis. Phosphorylates ethanolamine, and can also act on choline (in vitro). Has higher activity with ethanolamine. May not significantly contribute to in vivo phosphatidylcholine biosynthesis. {ECO:0000269|PubMed:19915674}.

Pfam Domains GO Terms

Compound Hit Most Correlated Genes in Chemogenomics Tissues where Essential in the Avana Dataset (DepMap 20Q1)

Global Fraction of Cell Lines Where Essential: 1/739

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	1/17
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

Expression Distribution

APH
Choline kinase

choline kinase activity
ethanolamine kinase activity
CDP-choline pathway
phosphatidylethanolamine biosynthetic process
phosphatidylethanolamine metabolic process
phosphatidylcholine biosynthetic process
phosphatidylcholine metabolic process
ammonium ion metabolic process
glycerophospholipid biosynthetic process
glycerolipid biosynthetic process
phospholipid biosynthetic process
muscle organ development
glycerophospholipid metabolic process
phospholipid metabolic process
glycerolipid metabolic process
muscle structure development
organophosphate biosynthetic process
lipid biosynthetic process
organophosphate metabolic process
cellular lipid metabolic process
lipid metabolic process
phosphorylation
organonitrogen compound biosynthetic process
ATP binding