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

alpha4GT1

Drosophila melanogaster · Alpha1,4-N-acetylgalactosaminyltransferase 1 (EC 2.4.1.-)

GT32Model organism · annotation ≥ 4Fold GT-ARetaining

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Identification and annotation

CAZy familyGT32 · CAZy entry
Gene symbolalpha4GT1
Synonyms / alternate names
  • Alpha1,4-galactosyltransferase 1
  • UDP-GalNAc:betaGalNAc alpha1-4GalNAc-transferase
UniProt accessionQ9VQK4
NCBI Gene ID33512
Source speciesDrosophila melanogaster
Taxonomic domainEukaryota
UniProt annotation level5

Function and localisation

Enzyme functionAlpha1,4-N-acetylgalactosaminyltransferase 1 (EC 2.4.1.-)
Subcellular location
  • Cell membrane
  • Golgi apparatus membrane

Structure and mechanism

Fold typeGT-A
Catalytic mechanismRetaining
Cation dependenceYes (Mg2+)
Oligomeric statenot curated
PDB structuresnot curated

Donor and acceptor specificity

Sugar nucleotide donorUDP-N-acetyl-alpha-D-galactosamine
Donor CCD code(s)UD2
Acceptor substrate(s)
  • a beta-D-GalNAc-(1->4)-beta-D-GlcNAc-(1->3)-beta-D-Man-(1->4)-beta-D-Glc-(1<->1)-Cer
  • an N-acetyl-beta-D-galactosaminyl derivative
Acceptor CCD / GlycoCTnot curated

Protein sequences

Full protein sequence

369 aa
MLLWLPIAVARRMFIILVLMVIGGLFYIYTSENKYHSCFMEGQVLATQQALTADGETNLLGDVLQADPKPSPGNSIFFHETSCRLSENRQLETLKVTARQACAIESAAMHNPNFQVFVLFAGPTYRISNNKSHPQPLLEAILSYSNVHLRRLNLESYASGTPMEEWLKDGRLSRSKYLFSHISDFLRYLTLYRYGGLYLDMDVVVLRNMEKVPPNYTGAESNTHLAAGVMNLAATGFGHEIAASCLRDFQHNFNGGDWGNNGPGVITRVAQKICGTKDIALMREDPKRCMGFKVFGRGAFYAVPWKQWRDFFEPENLEETIARCKDSYVVHVWNKHSSKLPIKIGSKNAYALYAEQNCPRSYKAAGEYF

Catalytic domain sequence

131 aa
TGFGHEIAASCLRDFQHNFNGGDWGNNGPGVITRVAQKICGTKDIALMREDPKRCMGFKVFGRGAFYAVPWKQWRDFFEPENLEETIARCKDSYVVHVWNKHSSKLPIKIGSKNAYALYAEQNCPRSYKAA