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Ask your administrator if you think this is wrong. ======= UGCG ======= == Gene Information == * **<color #00a2e8>Official Symbol</color>**: UGCG * **<color #00a2e8>Official Name</color>**: UDP-glucose ceramide glucosyltransferase * **<color #00a2e8>Aliases and Previous Symbols</color>**: N/A * **<color #00a2e8>Entrez ID</color>**: [[https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/gene/?term=7357|7357]] * **<color #00a2e8>UniProt</color>**: [[https://www.uniprot.org/uniprot/Q16739|Q16739]] * **<color #00a2e8>Interactions</color>**: [[https://thebiogrid.org/search.php?search=UGCG&organism=9606|BioGRID]] * **<color #00a2e8>PubMed articles</color>**: [[https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=gene%20UGCG|Open PubMed]] * **<color #00a2e8>OMIM</color>**: [[https://omim.org/entry/602874|Open OMIM]] == Function Summary == * **<color #00a2e8>Entrez Summary</color>**: N/A * **<color #00a2e8>UniProt Summary</color>**: Catalyzes the first glycosylation step in glycosphingolipid biosynthesis, the transfer of glucose to ceramide. May also serve as a "flippase". {ECO:0000269|PubMed:8643456}. <button type='default' 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'> No Pfam Domain information is available for this gene. </modal> <modal id='GO_terms' size='lg' title='GO Terms'> |dihydroceramide glucosyltransferase activity| |ceramide glucosyltransferase activity| |glucosylceramide biosynthetic process| |cornified envelope assembly| |glycosylceramide biosynthetic process| |glucosylceramide metabolic process| |leptin-mediated signaling pathway| |intestinal lipid absorption| |cellular response to leptin stimulus| |glycosylceramide metabolic process| |response to leptin| |establishment of skin barrier| |glycosphingolipid biosynthetic process| |regulation of water loss via skin| |intestinal absorption| |membrane assembly| |membrane biogenesis| |ceramide biosynthetic process| |glycosphingolipid metabolic process| |glycolipid biosynthetic process| |multicellular organismal water homeostasis| |water homeostasis| |digestive system process| |ceramide metabolic process| |protein lipidation| |lipoprotein biosynthetic process| |sphingolipid biosynthetic process| |plasma membrane organization| |glycolipid metabolic process| |liposaccharide metabolic process| |digestion| |lipoprotein metabolic process| |membrane lipid biosynthetic process| |sphingolipid metabolic process| |membrane lipid metabolic process| |keratinocyte differentiation| |lipid transport| |epidermal cell differentiation| |lipid localization| |multicellular organismal homeostasis| |skin development| |epidermis development| |endomembrane system organization| |regulation of body fluid levels| |amide biosynthetic process| |lipid biosynthetic process| |cellular response to hormone stimulus| |carbohydrate derivative biosynthetic process| |Golgi membrane| |cytokine-mediated signaling pathway| |epithelial cell differentiation| |cellular amide metabolic process| |neuron development| |membrane organization| |response to hormone| |cellular lipid metabolic process| |cellular response to cytokine stimulus| |neuron differentiation| |carbohydrate derivative metabolic process| |response to cytokine| |chemical homeostasis| |epithelium development| |lipid metabolic process| |cellular response to endogenous stimulus| |organonitrogen compound biosynthetic process| |response to endogenous stimulus| |generation of neurons| |neurogenesis| |cellular nitrogen compound biosynthetic process| |homeostatic process| |cell development| |cellular macromolecule biosynthetic process| |tissue development| |macromolecule biosynthetic process| |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:exp434|Vemurafenib 6.6μM R08 exp434]]|-3.65| |[[:results:exp507|Monensin 0.3μM R08 exp507]]|-3.31| |[[:results:exp89|Vemurafenib 6.6μM R02 exp89]]|-3.09| |[[:results:exp8|Brefeldin A 0.02μM R00 exp8]]|-2.93| |[[:results:exp144|PFI-3 10μM R03 exp144]]|-1.76| |[[:results:exp69|Deguelin 0.05μM R02 exp69]]|-1.73| |[[:results:exp452|Azithromycin 100μM R08 exp452]]|-1.71| |[[:results:exp380|NMS-873 0.07μM R07 exp380]]|1.73| </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: 3/739 ^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|1/22| |urinary tract|0/29| |uterus|0/5| </modal> == Essentiality in NALM6 == * **<color #00a2e8>Essentiality Rank</color>**: 9323 * **<color #00a2e8>Expression level (log2 read counts)</color>**: 4.87 <button type='primary' size='small' modal='Dist_expr'>Expression Distribution</button> <modal id='Dist_expr' size='lg' title='UGCG Expression in NALM6 Cells: 4.87'> {{:chemogenomics:nalm6 dist.png?nolink |}} </modal> Last modified: 2025/12/10 20:19by 127.0.0.1