HYPK
Gene Information
- Official Symbol: HYPK
- Official Name: huntingtin interacting protein K
- Aliases and Previous Symbols: N/A
- Entrez ID: 25764
- UniProt: Q9NX55
- Interactions: BioGRID
- PubMed articles: Open PubMed
- OMIM: Open OMIM
Function Summary
- Entrez Summary: N/A
- UniProt Summary: Has a chaperone-like activity preventing polyglutamine (polyQ) aggregation of HTT. Protects against HTT polyQ-mediated apoptosis in Neuro2a neuronal cells. Required for optimal NAA10- NAA15 complex-mediated N-terminal acetylation. {ECO:0000269|PubMed:17947297, ECO:0000269|PubMed:20154145}.
CRISPR Data
Essentiality in NALM6
- Essentiality Rank: 2040
- Expression level (log2 read counts): 5.76