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

ALG8

Homo sapiens · Dolichyl pyrophosphate Glc1Man9GlcNAc2 alpha-1,3-glucosyltransferase (EC 2.4.1.265)

GT57Model organism · annotation ≥ 4Fold GT-CInverting

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Identification and annotation

CAZy familyGT57 · CAZy entry
Gene symbolALG8
Synonyms / alternate names
  • Asparagine-linked glycosylation protein 8 homolog
  • Dol-P-Glc:Glc(1)Man(9)GlcNAc(2)-PP-dolichyl alpha-1,3-glucosyltransferase
  • Dolichyl-P-Glc:Glc1Man9GlcNAc2-PP-dolichyl glucosyltransferase
UniProt accessionQ9BVK2
NCBI Gene ID79053
Source speciesHomo sapiens
Taxonomic domainEukaryota
UniProt annotation level5

Function and localisation

Enzyme functionDolichyl pyrophosphate Glc1Man9GlcNAc2 alpha-1,3-glucosyltransferase (EC 2.4.1.265)
Subcellular locationEndoplasmic reticulum membrane

Structure and mechanism

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

Donor and acceptor specificity

Sugar nucleotide donornot curated
Donor CCD code(s)not curated
Acceptor substrate(s)
  • an alpha-D-Glc-(1->3)-alpha-D-Man-(1->2)-alpha-D-Man-(1->2)-alpha-D-Man-(1->3)-[alpha-D-Man-(1->2)-alpha-D-Man-(1->3)-[alpha-D-Man-(1->2)-alpha-D-Man-(1->6)]-alpha-D-Man-(1->6)]-beta-D-Man-(1->4)-beta-D-GlcNAc-(1->4)-alpha-D-GlcNAc-diphospho-di-trans,poly-cis-dolichol
  • a di-trans,poly-cis-dolichyl beta-D-glucosyl phosphate
Acceptor CCD / GlycoCTnot curated

Protein sequences

Full protein sequence

526 aa
MAALTIATGTGNWFSALALGVTLLKCLLIPTYHSTDFEVHRNWLAITHSLPISQWYYEATSEWTLDYPPFFAWFEYILSHVAKYFDQEMLNVHNLNYSSSRTLLFQRFSVIFMDVLFVYAVRECCKCIDGKKVGKELTEKPKFILSVLLLWNFGLLIVDHIHFQYNGFLFGLMLLSIARLFQKRHMEGAFLFAVLLHFKHIYLYVAPAYGVYLLRSYCFTANKPDGSIRWKSFSFVRVISLGLVVFLVSALSLGPFLALNQLPQVFSRLFPFKRGLCHAYWAPNFWALYNALDKVLSVIGLKLKFLDPNNIPKASMTSGLVQQFQHTVLPSVTPLATLICTLIAILPSIFCLWFKPQGPRGFLRCLTLCALSSFMFGWHVHEKAILLAILPMSLLSVGKAGDASIFLILTTTGHYSLFPLLFTAPELPIKILLMLLFTIYSISSLKTLFRKEKPLFNWMETFYLLGLGPLEVCCEFVFPFTSWKVKYPFIPLLLTSVYCAVGITYAWFKLYVSVLIDSAIGKTKKQ

Catalytic domain sequence

488 aa
TLLKCLLIPTYHSTDFEVHRNWLAITHSLPISQWYYEATSEWTLDYPPFFAWFEYILSHVAKYFDQEMLNVHNLNYSSSRTLLFQRFSVIFMDVLFVYAVRECCKCIDGKKVGKELTEKPKFILSVLLLWNFGLLIVDHIHFQYNGFLFGLMLLSIARLFQKRHMEGAFLFAVLLHFKHIYLYVAPAYGVYLLRSYCFTANKPDGSIRWKSFSFVRVISLGLVVFLVSALSLGPFLALNQLPQVFSRLFPFKRGLCHAYWAPNFWALYNALDKVLSVIGLKLKFLDPNNIPKASMTSGLVQQFQHTVLPSVTPLATLICTLIAILPSIFCLWFKPQGPRGFLRCLTLCALSSFMFGWHVHEKAILLAILPMSLLSVGKAGDASIFLILTTTGHYSLFPLLFTAPELPIKILLMLLFTIYSISSLKTLFRKEKPLFNWMETFYLLGLGPLEVCCEFVFPFTSWKVKYPFIPLLLTSVYCAVGITYAWFK