FPGS

• Official Symbol: FPGS
• Official Name: folylpolyglutamate synthase
• Aliases and Previous Symbols: N/A
• Entrez ID: 2356
• UniProt: Q05932
• Interactions: BioGRID
• PubMed articles: Open PubMed
• OMIM: Open OMIM

• Entrez Summary: This gene encodes the folylpolyglutamate synthetase enzyme. This enzyme has a central role in establishing and maintaining both cytosolic and mitochondrial folylpolyglutamate concentrations and, therefore, is essential for folate homeostasis and the survival of proliferating cells. This enzyme catalyzes the ATP-dependent addition of glutamate moieties to folate and folate derivatives. Alternative splicing results in transcript variants encoding different isoforms. [provided by RefSeq, Jan 2014].
• UniProt Summary: Catalyzes conversion of folates to polyglutamate derivatives allowing concentration of folate compounds in the cell and the intracellular retention of these cofactors, which are important substrates for most of the folate-dependent enzymes that are involved in one-carbon transfer reactions involved in purine, pyrimidine and amino acid synthesis. Unsubstituted reduced folates are the preferred substrates. Metabolizes methotrexate (MTX) to polyglutamates. {ECO:0000269|PubMed:8408018, ECO:0000269|PubMed:8408019, ECO:0000269|PubMed:8408021, ECO:0000269|PubMed:8662720}.

Pfam Domains GO Terms

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

• Essentiality Rank: 70
• Expression level (log2 read counts): 7.11

Expression Distribution

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FPGS Expression in NALM6 Cells: 7.11