SUFU

Gene Information
  • Official Symbol: SUFU
  • Official Name: SUFU negative regulator of hedgehog signaling
  • Aliases and Previous Symbols: N/A
  • Entrez ID: 51684
  • UniProt: Q9UMX1
  • Interactions: BioGRID
  • PubMed articles: Open PubMed
  • OMIM: Open OMIM
Function Summary
  • Entrez Summary: The Hedgehog signaling pathway plays an important role in early human development. The pathway is a signaling cascade that plays a role in pattern formation and cellular proliferation during development. This gene encodes a negative regulator of the hedgehog signaling pathway. Defects in this gene are a cause of medulloblastoma. Alternative splicing results in multiple transcript variants.[provided by RefSeq, May 2010].
  • UniProt Summary: Negative regulator in the hedgehog signaling pathway. Down-regulates GLI1-mediated transactivation of target genes (PubMed:15367681, PubMed:24311597, PubMed:24217340). Down- regulates GLI2-mediated transactivation of target genes (PubMed:24311597, PubMed:24217340). Part of a corepressor complex that acts on DNA-bound GLI1. May also act by linking GLI1 to BTRC and thereby targeting GLI1 to degradation by the proteasome. Sequesters GLI1, GLI2 and GLI3 in the cytoplasm, this effect is overcome by binding of STK36 to both SUFU and a GLI protein (PubMed:10806483, PubMed:24217340). Negative regulator of beta- catenin signaling. Regulates the formation of either the repressor form (GLI3R) or the activator form (GLI3A) of the full-length form of GLI3 (GLI3FL). GLI3FL is complexed with SUFU in the cytoplasm and is maintained in a neutral state. Without the Hh signal, the SUFU-GLI3 complex is recruited to cilia, leading to the efficient processing of GLI3FL into GLI3R. When Hh signaling is initiated, SUFU dissociates from GLI3FL and the latter translocates to the nucleus, where it is phosphorylated, destabilized, and converted to a transcriptional activator (GLI3A). Required for normal embryonic development. Required for the proper formation of hair follicles and the control of epidermal differentiation (By similarity). {ECO:0000250|UniProtKB:Q9Z0P7, ECO:0000269|PubMed:10559945, ECO:0000269|PubMed:10564661, ECO:0000269|PubMed:10806483, ECO:0000269|PubMed:12068298, ECO:0000269|PubMed:12975309, ECO:0000269|PubMed:15367681, ECO:0000269|PubMed:22365972, ECO:0000269|PubMed:24217340, ECO:0000269|PubMed:24311597}.

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: 5671
  • Expression level (log2 read counts): 4.37

Expression Distribution

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