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ZDHHC9

Chr Xq26.1

zDHHC palmitoyltransferase 9

Aliases:
ZNF379, CGI-89, ZNF380, DHHC9
MANE:
ENST00000357166.11

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Predicted protein structure

Clinical relevance (Genomics England PanelApp)

Diagnostic Grade (Green)

  • DDG2P

    X-LINKED: hemizygous mutation in males, biallelic mutations in females
  • Early onset or syndromic epilepsy

    X-LINKED: hemizygous mutation in males, biallelic mutations in females
  • Intellectual disability

    X-LINKED: hemizygous mutation in males, biallelic mutations in females
  • Fetal anomalies

    X-LINKED: hemizygous mutation in males, biallelic mutations in females

Disease associations (Open Targets)

  • syndromic X-linked intellectual disability Raymond type

    0.78
  • X-linked intellectual disability with marfanoid habitus

    0.60
  • hereditary disease

    0.50
  • Intellectual disability

    0.46
  • epilepsy

    0.37
  • COVID-19

    0.37
  • neurodegenerative disease

    0.23
  • neurodevelopmental disorder

    0.12
  • Neurodevelopmental abnormality

    0.11
  • neoplasm

    0.11

Score is the Open Targets composite evidence score (0-1). Higher = stronger gene-disease association.

Protein function (UniProt)

Palmitoyltransferase ZDHHC9

Palmitoyltransferase that catalyzes the addition of palmitate onto various protein substrates, such as ADRB2, GSDMD, HRAS, NRAS and CGAS (PubMed:16000296, PubMed:27481942, PubMed:37802025, PubMed:38530158, PubMed:38599239). The ZDHHC9-GOLGA7 complex is a palmitoyltransferase specific for HRAS and NRAS (PubMed:16000296). May have a palmitoyltransferase activity toward the beta-2 adrenergic receptor/ADRB2 and therefore regulate G protein-coupled receptor signaling (PubMed:27481942). Acts as a regulator of innate immunity by catalyzing palmitoylation of CGAS, thereby promoting CGAS homodimerization and cyclic GMP-AMP synthase activity (PubMed:37802025). Activates pyroptosis by catalyzing palmitoylation of gasdermin-D (GSDMD), thereby promoting membrane translocation and pore formation of GSDMD (PubMed:38530158, PubMed:38599239)

Data sources: HGNC (CC BY 4.0), AlphaFold (CC BY 4.0, Jumper et al. Nature 2021), Genomics England PanelApp (CC BY 4.0), ClinGen, Open Targets (CC0), UniProt.

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