CYB5R2

Gene Information
  • Official Symbol: CYB5R2
  • Official Name: cytochrome b5 reductase 2
  • Aliases and Previous Symbols: N/A
  • Entrez ID: 51700
  • UniProt: Q6BCY4
  • Interactions: BioGRID
  • PubMed articles: Open PubMed
  • OMIM: Open OMIM
Function Summary
  • Entrez Summary: N/A
  • UniProt Summary: NADH-cytochrome b5 reductases are involved in desaturation and elongation of fatty acids, cholesterol biosynthesis, drug metabolism, and, in erythrocyte, methemoglobin reduction (By similarity). Responsible for NADH-dependent lucigenin chemiluminescence in spermatozoa by reducing both lucigenin and 2-[4-iodophenyl]-3-[4-nitrophenyl]-5-[2,4- disulfophenyl]-2H tetrazolium monosodium salt (WST-1). {ECO:0000250, ECO:0000269|PubMed:15858218}.

Pfam Domains GO Terms


CRISPR Data

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

Essentiality in NALM6
  • Essentiality Rank: 14785
  • Expression level (log2 read counts): 1.94

Expression Distribution

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