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Glycosyltransferase Curated Online Resource for Enzymology

Family-organised sequence, structure, mechanism and substrate-specificity records for the CAZy glycosyltransferases

GlcT

Drosophila melanogaster · ceramide glucosyltransferase (EC 2.4.1.80)

GT21Model organism · annotation ≥ 4Fold GT-AInverting

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Identification and annotation

CAZy familyGT21 · CAZy entry
Gene symbolGlcT
Synonyms / alternate names
  • dGlcCerT
  • DGlcT-1
  • Dmel\CG6437
  • GlcT-1
  • GlcT1
UniProt accessionQ9W297
NCBI Gene ID37516
Source speciesDrosophila melanogaster
Taxonomic domainEukaryota
UniProt annotation level4

Function and localisation

Enzyme functionceramide glucosyltransferase (EC 2.4.1.80)
Subcellular locationGolgi apparatus membrane

Structure and mechanism

Fold typeGT-A
Catalytic mechanismInverting
Cation dependenceNo
Oligomeric statenot curated
PDB structuresnot curated

Donor and acceptor specificity

Sugar nucleotide donorUDP-alpha-D-xylose
Donor CCD code(s)UDX
Acceptor substrate(s)
  • N-(9Z-octadecenoyl)-sphing-4-enine
  • an N-acylsphing-4-enine
Acceptor CCD / GlycoCTnot curated

Protein sequences

Full protein sequence

440 aa
MSHLPLPLYGFAAFFMVFWLGTWMVHVIAICYGRYKLHKKSCKLPTEAQPLPGVSILKPLMGVDPNLQHNLETFFTMDYPLYELLFCVEDKEDPAIQLVERLLAKYPLVDAALFVGGSDVGVNPKINNIHPGYMAAKYDFVMISDSGIKMKDDTLLDMVQNMSEKHALVHQMPFTCDRDGFAATFEKVFFGTVQSRIYLSADVLGINCHTGMSCLLRKAVIDQLGGLRAFGCYLAEDFFIARSVTRLGWKMRISNQPALQNSGLCDIGSFQARLIRWAKLRVAMVPTTILLEPLSECMILGAIAAWSASVLFSWDPLVFYLVHVLCWFLSDWLLLSIVQHGSMPFHKFEFVVGWLFRELTGPYLFLHALWNPAIRWRARTYKLHWGGVAYELNSLASDAANDPLAPQPQPAPTLEPAVVNAGTTGDTLICTGAKQRLLVS

Catalytic domain sequence

299 aa
VSILKPLMGVDPNLQHNLETFFTMDYPLYELLFCVEDKEDPAIQLVERLLAKYPLVDAALFVGGSDVGVNPKINNIHPGYMAAKYDFVMISDSGIKMKDDTLLDMVQNMSEKHALVHQMPFTCDRDGFAATFEKVFFGTVQSRIYLSADVLGINCHTGMSCLLRKAVIDQLGGLRAFGCYLAEDFFIARSVTRLGWKMRISNQPALQNSGLCDIGSFQARLIRWAKLRVAMVPTTILLEPLSECMILGAIAAWSASVLFSWDPLVFYLVHVLCWFLSDWLLLSIVQHGSMPFHKFEFVV