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Ask your administrator if you think this is wrong. ======= CRYAA ======= == Gene Information == * **<color #00a2e8>Official Symbol</color>**: CRYAA * **<color #00a2e8>Official Name</color>**: crystallin alpha A * **<color #00a2e8>Aliases and Previous Symbols</color>**: N/A * **<color #00a2e8>Entrez ID</color>**: [[https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/gene/?term=1409|1409]] * **<color #00a2e8>UniProt</color>**: [[https://www.uniprot.org/uniprot/P02489|P02489]] * **<color #00a2e8>Interactions</color>**: [[https://thebiogrid.org/search.php?search=CRYAA&organism=9606|BioGRID]] * **<color #00a2e8>PubMed articles</color>**: [[https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=gene%20CRYAA|Open PubMed]] * **<color #00a2e8>OMIM</color>**: [[https://omim.org/entry/123580|Open OMIM]] == Function Summary == * **<color #00a2e8>Entrez Summary</color>**: Mammalian lens crystallins are divided into alpha, beta, and gamma families. Alpha crystallins are composed of two gene products: alpha-A and alpha-B, for acidic and basic, respectively. Alpha crystallins can be induced by heat shock and are members of the small heat shock protein (HSP20) family. They act as molecular chaperones although they do not renature proteins and release them in the fashion of a true chaperone; instead they hold them in large soluble aggregates. Post-translational modifications decrease the ability to chaperone. These heterogeneous aggregates consist of 30-40 subunits; the alpha-A and alpha-B subunits have a 3:1 ratio, respectively. Two additional functions of alpha crystallins are an autokinase activity and participation in the intracellular architecture. The encoded protein has been identified as a moonlighting protein based on its ability to perform mechanistically distinct functions. Alpha-A and alpha-B gene products are differentially expressed; alpha-A is preferentially restricted to the lens and alpha-B is expressed widely in many tissues and organs. Defects in this gene cause autosomal dominant congenital cataract (ADCC). [provided by RefSeq, Jan 2014]. * **<color #00a2e8>UniProt Summary</color>**: Contributes to the transparency and refractive index of the lens. Has chaperone-like activity, preventing aggregation of various proteins under a wide range of stress conditions. {ECO:0000269|PubMed:22120592}. <button type='primary' size='sm' modal='Pfam_Domains'>Pfam Domains</button> <button type='primary' size='sm' modal='GO_terms'>GO Terms</button> <modal id='Pfam_Domains' size='lg' title='Pfam Domains'> |HSP20| |Crystallin| </modal> <modal id='GO_terms' size='lg' title='GO Terms'> |structural constituent of eye lens| |protein refolding| |negative regulation of intracellular transport| |unfolded protein binding| |protein stabilization| |visual perception| |sensory perception of light stimulus| |protein folding| |regulation of protein stability| |protein homooligomerization| |regulation of intracellular transport| |negative regulation of transport| |protein complex oligomerization| |negative regulation of apoptotic process| |negative regulation of programmed cell death| |regulation of cellular localization| |sensory perception| |negative regulation of cell death| |identical protein binding| |nervous system process| |regulation of apoptotic process| |protein-containing complex assembly| |regulation of programmed cell death| |regulation of cell death| |protein-containing complex subunit organization| |regulation of transport| |system process| </modal> \\ === CRISPR Data === <button type='primary' size='small' modal='Compound_Hit'>Compound Hit</button> <button type='default' size='small' modal='Most_Correlated_Genes'>Most Correlated Genes in Chemogenomics</button> <button type='primary' size='small' modal='Essential_Avana'>Tissues where Essential in the Avana Dataset (DepMap 20Q1)</button> <modal id='Compound_Hit' size='lg' title='Compound Hit'> ^Screen^Score^ |[[:results:exp483|FTY720 3μM R08 exp483]]|-2.16| |[[:results:exp357|Dorsomorphin 5μM R07 exp357]]|1.82| |[[:results:exp335|Aminopterin 0.005μM R07 exp335]]|3.22| </modal> <modal id='Most_Correlated_Genes' size='lg' title='Most Correlated Genes in Chemogenomics'> No correlation found to any other genes in chemogenomics. </modal> <modal id='Essential_Avana' size='lg' title='Tissues where Essential in the Avana Dataset (DepMap 20Q1)'> 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| </modal> == Essentiality in NALM6 == * **<color #00a2e8>Essentiality Rank</color>**: 15297 * **<color #00a2e8>Expression level (log2 read counts)</color>**: -7.68 <button type='primary' size='small' modal='Dist_expr'>Expression Distribution</button> <modal id='Dist_expr' size='lg' title='CRYAA Expression in NALM6 Cells: -7.68'> {{:chemogenomics:nalm6 dist.png?nolink |}} </modal> Last modified: 2025/12/10 20:19by 127.0.0.1