GT-CORE (public beta v1)

Glycosyltransferase Curated Online Resource for Enzymology

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

B4GALT2

Bos taurus · Beta-1,4-galactosyltransferase (EC 2.4.1.-)

GT7Non-model organism · annotation 4–5Fold GT-AInverting

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Identification and annotation

CAZy familyGT7 · CAZy entry
Gene symbolB4GALT2
Synonyms / alternate namesnot curated
UniProt accessionA6QQY5
NCBI Gene ID100125390
Source speciesBos taurus
Taxonomic domainEukaryota
UniProt annotation level4

Function and localisation

Enzyme functionBeta-1,4-galactosyltransferase (EC 2.4.1.-)
Subcellular location
  • Golgi apparatus membrane
  • Golgi apparatus, Golgi stack membrane

Structure and mechanism

Fold typeGT-A
Catalytic mechanismInverting
Cation dependenceYes (Mn2+)
Oligomeric statenot curated
PDB structuresnot curated

Donor and acceptor specificity

Sugar nucleotide donorUDP-alpha-D-galactose
Donor CCD code(s)GDU
Acceptor substrate(s)
  • N-acetyl-D-glucosamine
  • a beta-D-glucosylceramide
  • a neolactoside IV(3)-beta-GlcNAc-nLc4Cer
  • an N-acetyl-beta-D-glucosaminyl derivative
Acceptor CCD / GlycoCTnot curated

Protein sequences

Full protein sequence

369 aa
MSRLLGGTLERVCKAVLLLCLLHFLVAVILYFDVYAQHLAFFSRFSARGPSRALHPAASSSTNCSRPNATAPSSGLPEAPSARPGPTAPVLPPCPDSPPGLVGRLLIEFTSPMPLERVQRENPGVLLGGRYTPPDCTPAQTVAVIIPFRHREHHLRYWLHYLHPILRRQRLRYGIYVINQHGEDTFNRAKLLNVGFLEALKEDSTYNCFIFSDVDLVPMDDRNLYRCGDQPRHFAIAMDKFGFRLPYAGYFGGVSGLNKSQFLRINGFPNEYWGWGGEDDDIFNRISLAGMKISRPDIRIGRYRMIKHDRDKHNEPNPQRFTKIQNTKLTMKRDGIGSVRYQVLEVSRQPLFTNITVDIGRPPSWPPRG

Catalytic domain sequence

217 aa
VAVIIPFRHREHHLRYWLHYLHPILRRQRLRYGIYVINQHGEDTFNRAKLLNVGFLEALKEDSTYNCFIFSDVDLVPMDDRNLYRCGDQPRHFAIAMDKFGFRLPYAGYFGGVSGLNKSQFLRINGFPNEYWGWGGEDDDIFNRISLAGMKISRPDIRIGRYRMIKHDRDKHNEPNPQRFTKIQNTKLTMKRDGIGSVRYQVLEVSRQPLFTNITVD