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

A0A0U2UAG8

Saccoglossus kowalevskii · CMP-N-acetylneuraminate-beta-galactosamide-alpha-2,3-sialyltransferase 2 (EC 2.4.3.2; 2.4.3.4)

GT29Non-model organism · annotation 4–5Fold GT-AInverting

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Identification and annotation

CAZy familyGT29 · CAZy entry
Gene symbolnot curated
Synonyms / alternate names
  • Gal-NAc6S
  • Gal-beta-1,3-GalNAc-alpha-2,3-sialyltransferase
  • Monosialoganglioside sialyltransferase
  • ST3Gal II
  • ST3GalA.2
  • Sialyltransferase 4B
UniProt accessionA0A0U2UAG8
NCBI Gene ID100377401
Source speciesSaccoglossus kowalevskii
Taxonomic domainEukaryota
UniProt annotation level4

Function and localisation

Enzyme functionCMP-N-acetylneuraminate-beta-galactosamide-alpha-2,3-sialyltransferase 2 (EC 2.4.3.2; 2.4.3.4)
Subcellular location
  • Golgi apparatus membrane
  • Golgi apparatus, Golgi stack membrane
  • Secreted

Structure and mechanism

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

Donor and acceptor specificity

Sugar nucleotide donorCMP-N-acetyl-beta-neuraminate
Donor CCD code(s)NCC
Acceptor substrate(s)
  • a beta-D-galactosyl-(1->3)-N-acetyl-alpha-D-galactosaminyl derivative
  • a ganglioside GA1 (d18:1(4E))
  • a ganglioside GA1
  • a ganglioside GM1 (d18:1(4E))
  • a globoside GalGb4Cer
  • ganglioside GM1 (d18:1(4E)/18:0)
Acceptor CCD / GlycoCTnot curated

Protein sequences

Full protein sequence

350 aa
MSYSRVRRRLPVVTFIALIFLLSLFTLMYKLYSPILVSNANMKSTARLKDSFTAATLLSSNCTRMPVWTKGEYKFFDDRYSNISTIWSSKHKEMTPEALQWWLRIQQSKDTFSTSDLRNLVGKLLEIIPDVMPYATNVSNRCLQCAVVGNSGNLRDSRYGQLIDSHDYIMRMNTAKTVGFEKDVGSRTTHHFMYPESFVEVIGETKFVLIPFKPLDVSWLISALTTGTIVRTYMPVRKQINVSKKMIEVYNPAFMYYVHKTWNELHGRYPSTGMLVLLFAMHICDQVNVFGFGATSKGNWDHYYQPPVEPSLEKDSAFKLTGVHNAEFETDIVKQLEEIGKITVYRGSRV

Catalytic domain sequence

285 aa
CTRMPVWTKGEYKFFDDRYSNISTIWSSKHKEMTPEALQWWLRIQQSKDTFSTSDLRNLVGKLLEIIPDVMPYATNVSNRCLQCAVVGNSGNLRDSRYGQLIDSHDYIMRMNTAKTVGFEKDVGSRTTHHFMYPESFVEVIGETKFVLIPFKPLDVSWLISALTTGTIVRTYMPVRKQINVSKKMIEVYNPAFMYYVHKTWNELHGRYPSTGMLVLLFAMHICDQVNVFGFGATSKGNWDHYYQPPVEPSLEKDSAFKLTGVHNAEFETDIVKQLEEIGKITVYR