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

ugcg-b

Xenopus laevis · Ceramide glucosyltransferase-B (EC 2.4.1.80)

GT21Model organism · annotation ≥ 4Fold GT-AInverting

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Identification and annotation

CAZy familyGT21 · CAZy entry
Gene symbolugcg-b
Synonyms / alternate names
  • ugcg
  • Glycosylceramide synthase-B
  • UDP-glucose ceramide glucosyltransferase-B
UniProt accessionQ5U4S8
NCBI Gene ID495444
Source speciesXenopus laevis
Taxonomic domainEukaryota
UniProt annotation level4

Function and localisation

Enzyme functionCeramide glucosyltransferase-B (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 donor
  • UDP-alpha-D-glucose
  • UDP-alpha-D-xylose
Donor CCD code(s)UPG, UDX
Acceptor substrate(s)
  • an N-acylsphing-4-enine
  • N-(9Z-octadecenoyl)-sphing-4-enine
Acceptor CCD / GlycoCTnot curated

Protein sequences

Full protein sequence

394 aa
MAVLDLALQGLAIFGCILFFVLWFMHFLSIVYTRLHLNKKVSDKQPYSKLPGVSLLKPLKGVDSNLINNLETFFELDYPKFEILLCVQDLDDPAVDVCKKLLGKYPSVDAKLFIGGKKVGINPKINNLMPGYEVAKYDLIWICDSGIKVKPDTLTDMANQMTEKVGLVHGLPYVADRQGFAATLEQVYFGTSHPRSYISANVTGIKCVTGMSCLMRKEVLDQAGGLIAFAQYIAEDYFMAKAIADRGWKFSMATQVAMQNSGCYSISQFQSRMIRWAKLRINMLPATIICEPISECFVASLIIGWAAHHIFRWDIMVFFMCHCLAWFIFDYIQLRGVQGGPLNFSKLDYAVAWFIRESMTIYIFLSALWDPTISWRTGRYRLRCGGTAEEILDV

Catalytic domain sequence

239 aa
PYSKLPGVSLLKPLKGVDSNLINNLETFFELDYPKFEILLCVQDLDDPAVDVCKKLLGKYPSVDAKLFIGGKKVGINPKINNLMPGYEVAKYDLIWICDSGIKVKPDTLTDMANQMTEKVGLVHGLPYVADRQGFAATLEQVYFGTSHPRSYISANVTGIKCVTGMSCLMRKEVLDQAGGLIAFAQYIAEDYFMAKAIADRGWKFSMATQVAMQNSGCYSISQFQSRMIRWAKLRINML