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

ST3GAL1

Bos taurus · CMP-N-acetylneuraminate-beta-galactosamide-alpha-2,3-sialyltransferase 1 (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 symbolST3GAL1
Synonyms / alternate names
  • Gal-NAc6S
  • Gal-beta-1,3-GalNAc-alpha-2,3-sialyltransferase
  • Monosialoganglioside sialyltransferase
  • ST3Gal I
  • ST3GalA.1
  • ST3O
  • Sialyltransferase 4A
UniProt accessionA5D960
NCBI Gene ID282351
Source speciesBos taurus
Taxonomic domainEukaryota
UniProt annotation level4

Function and localisation

Enzyme functionCMP-N-acetylneuraminate-beta-galactosamide-alpha-2,3-sialyltransferase 1 (EC 2.4.3.2; 2.4.3.4)
Subcellular location
  • Golgi apparatus, Golgi stack membrane
  • Golgi apparatus, trans-Golgi network membrane
  • Secreted

Structure and mechanism

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

Donor and acceptor specificity

Sugar nucleotide donorCMP-N-acetyl-beta-neuraminate
Donor CCD code(s)NCC
Acceptor substrate(s)
  • a 3-O-[beta-D-galactosyl-(1->3)-N-acetyl-alpha-D-galactosaminyl]-L-seryl-[protein]
  • a 3-O-[beta-D-galactosyl-(1->3)-N-acetyl-alpha-D-galactosaminyl]-L-threonyl-[protein]
  • a beta-D-galactosyl-(1->3)-N-acetyl-alpha-D-galactosaminyl derivative
  • a ganglioside GA1 (d18:1(4E))
  • a ganglioside GD1b
  • a ganglioside GM1 (d18:1(4E))
  • ganglioside GM1 (d18:1(4E)/18:0)
Acceptor CCD / GlycoCTnot curated

Protein sequences

Full protein sequence

339 aa
MRKRTLKVLTLLLLFIFLTSFFLNYSHTMLATTWFPKQMVHELSENFKKLMKYSNRPCTCTRCIGQRRVSSWFDERFNRSMQPLLTAKNALLEEDTYNWWLRLQREKQPNNLNDTIKELFQVVPGDVDPLLEKGSVGCRRCAVVGNSGNLRESWYGPQIDSHDFVLRMNKAPTAGFEADVGRKTTHHLVYPESFRELAENVSMVLVPFKTVDLEWVISATTKGTISHTYVPVPAKIKVKKNKILIYHPAFIKYVFDSWLQGHGRYPSTGILSVIFSLHVCDEVDLYGFGADSKGNWHHYWENNPSAGAFRKTGVHDGDFESNVTATLASINKIRIFKGR

Catalytic domain sequence

280 aa
CTCTRCIGQRRVSSWFDERFNRSMQPLLTAKNALLEEDTYNWWLRLQREKQPNNLNDTIKELFQVVPGDVDPLLEKGSVGCRRCAVVGNSGNLRESWYGPQIDSHDFVLRMNKAPTAGFEADVGRKTTHHLVYPESFRELAENVSMVLVPFKTVDLEWVISATTKGTISHTYVPVPAKIKVKKNKILIYHPAFIKYVFDSWLQGHGRYPSTGILSVIFSLHVCDEVDLYGFGADSKGNWHHYWENNPSAGAFRKTGVHDGDFESNVTATLASINKIRIFK