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Glycosyltransferase Curated Online Resource for Enzymology

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

gcsA

Emericella nidulans (strain FGSC A4 / ATCC 38163 / CBS 112.46 / NRRL 194 / M139) · Ceramide glucosyltransferase (EC 2.4.1.80)

GT21Non-model organism · annotation 4–5Fold GT-AInverting

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Identification and annotation

CAZy familyGT21 · CAZy entry
Gene symbolgcsA
Synonyms / alternate names
  • Glucosylceramide synthase
  • UDP-glucose ceramide glucosyltransferase
  • UDP-glucose:N-acylsphingosine D-glucosyltransferase
UniProt accessionA0A1U8QQU5
NCBI Gene ID2868381
Source speciesEmericella nidulans (strain FGSC A4 / ATCC 38163 / CBS 112.46 / NRRL 194 / M139)
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-glucose
Donor CCD code(s)UPG
Acceptor substrate(s)an N-acylsphing-4-enine
Acceptor CCD / GlycoCTnot curated

Protein sequences

Full protein sequence

618 aa
MFVLSTARCTETRANKPTNHRRAEPDLTTSPRLLSSLLFSSLLSPLSTPRTRPSYNANAPSPSRTPMITLQSITDAVGLGSARYGGFQWSVALGWIGLVWYSTVTTVCALGYYKLWKHCLRRPQSSYCATAQNAPHVTVIRPVKGLEPHLYDCLASSFRQEYPRGKLTVCLCVSSRSDPAYATLEKLVADFPHVDARIYVEEEDPLLQPDHKPMYNLGPNPKIRNMSRAYREAKGDIVWIADCNVWVGKGVCGRMVDKLCGLGSGSSTEYKFVHHLPVAVDVTGVIGVDERRALETSGAARVKDGKSACAPGVLAMGGGRLEELFLSSSHAKMYTAINTVLIAPCIVGKSNMFRRSHLDYLTTTASCQFNPGIDYFSDNICEDHLIGDLLWKNRVREEKEDGKHLGKHALVFGDLAFQPIANMSVQSYIARRVRWLRVRKFIVMLATLVEPGTESILCSLYGAWGVTTVLAEYFQNKILSTWTTFFTFFGFSILTWCLIDWTVYIMLHSGKTVERDENTPSFARPPQGTTRRRFSHWLAAWLGREILAFPIWFWAIWGGMTVTWRDRQFRIGLDTKAHEIGGNSRAGLLEEQASGRENENEATSLITTAVKRQTRGNR

Catalytic domain sequence

474 aa
TVTTVCALGYYKLWKHCLRRPQSSYCATAQNAPHVTVIRPVKGLEPHLYDCLASSFRQEYPRGKLTVCLCVSSRSDPAYATLEKLVADFPHVDARIYVEEEDPLLQPDHKPMYNLGPNPKIRNMSRAYREAKGDIVWIADCNVWVGKGVCGRMVDKLCGLGSGSSTEYKFVHHLPVAVDVTGVIGVDERRALETSGAARVKDGKSACAPGVLAMGGGRLEELFLSSSHAKMYTAINTVLIAPCIVGKSNMFRRSHLDYLTTTASCQFNPGIDYFSDNICEDHLIGDLLWKNRVREEKEDGKHLGKHALVFGDLAFQPIANMSVQSYIARRVRWLRVRKFIVMLATLVEPGTESILCSLYGAWGVTTVLAEYFQNKILSTWTTFFTFFGFSILTWCLIDWTVYIMLHSGKTVERDENTPSFARPPQGTTRRRFSHWLAAWLGREILAFPIWFWAIWGGMTVTWRDRQFRIGLDTK