SIGLEC8

Gene Information
  • Official Symbol: SIGLEC8
  • Official Name: sialic acid binding Ig like lectin 8
  • Aliases and Previous Symbols: N/A
  • Entrez ID: 27181
  • UniProt: Q9NYZ4
  • Interactions: BioGRID
  • PubMed articles: Open PubMed
  • OMIM: Open OMIM
Function Summary
  • Entrez Summary: N/A
  • UniProt Summary: Putative adhesion molecule that mediates sialic-acid dependent binding to red blood cells (PubMed:10856141, PubMed:10625619). Preferentially binds to alpha-2,3-linked sialic acid. Also binds to alpha-2,6-linked sialic acid. The sialic acid recognition site may be masked by cis interactions with sialic acids on the same cell surface (PubMed:10625619). Recognizes simultaneously epitopes having a terminal N-acetylneuraminic acid (sialic acid) and an underlying 6-O-sulfated galactose. Preferentially binds to Gal-6-sulfated sialyl-Lewis X glycan epitopes (PubMed:27357658). {ECO:0000269|PubMed:10625619, ECO:0000269|PubMed:10856141, ECO:0000269|PubMed:27357658}.

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: 3391
  • Expression level (log2 read counts): 1.55

Expression Distribution

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