STRA8

Gene Information
  • Official Symbol: STRA8
  • Official Name: stimulated by retinoic acid 8
  • Aliases and Previous Symbols: N/A
  • Entrez ID: 346673
  • UniProt: Q7Z7C7
  • Interactions: BioGRID
  • PubMed articles: Open PubMed
  • OMIM: Open OMIM
Function Summary
  • Entrez Summary: N/A
  • UniProt Summary: Meiosis-inducer required for the transition into meiosis for both female and male germ cells. In female germ cells, required for premeiotic DNA replication and subsequent events in meiotic prophase. During spermatogenesis, next to its role in meiotic initiation, promotes (but is not required for) spermatogonial differentiation. Can associate with DNA (possibly in an indirect manner), and in vitro can activate DNA transcription (By similarity). {ECO:0000250|UniProtKB:P70278}.

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: 18636
  • Expression level (log2 read counts): -5.01

Expression Distribution

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