RAX

Entrez Summary: This gene encodes a homeobox-containing transcription factor that functions in eye development. The gene is expressed early in the eye primordia, and is required for retinal cell fate determination and also regulates stem cell proliferation. Mutations in this gene have been reported in patients with defects in ocular development, including microphthalmia, anophthalmia, and coloboma.[provided by RefSeq, Oct 2009].
UniProt Summary: Plays a critical role in eye formation by regulating the initial specification of retinal cells and/or their subsequent proliferation. Binds to the photoreceptor conserved element-I (PCE-1/Ret 1) in the photoreceptor cell-specific arrestin promoter.

Pfam Domains GO Terms

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

Global Fraction of Cell Lines Where Essential: 0/739

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	0/22
urinary tract	0/29
uterus	0/5

Expression Distribution

OAR
Homeobox

hypothalamus development
diencephalon development
limbic system development
limb development
appendage development
visual perception
sensory perception of light stimulus
camera-type eye development
eye development
visual system development
sensory system development
forebrain development
pattern specification process
DNA-binding transcription activator activity, RNA polymerase II-specific
RNA polymerase II proximal promoter sequence-specific DNA binding
sensory organ development
brain development
head development
sensory perception
central nervous system development
positive regulation of transcription by RNA polymerase II
nervous system process
positive regulation of transcription, DNA-templated
DNA-binding transcription factor activity, RNA polymerase II-specific
positive regulation of nucleic acid-templated transcription
positive regulation of RNA biosynthetic process
positive regulation of RNA metabolic process
positive regulation of nucleobase-containing compound metabolic process
positive regulation of macromolecule biosynthetic process
system process
positive regulation of cellular biosynthetic process
positive regulation of gene expression
positive regulation of biosynthetic process