Alternative titles; symbols
HGNC Approved Gene Symbol: GALNTL5
Cytogenetic location: 7q36.1 Genomic coordinates (GRCh38): 7:151,956,446-152,019,929 (from NCBI)
Membrane-bound polypeptide N-acetylgalactosaminyltransferases (EC 2.4.1.41), such as GALNTL5, catalyze the first step in mucin-type O-glycosylation of peptides in the Golgi apparatus. These enzymes transfer N-acetylgalactosamine (GalNAc) from UDP-GalNAc to the hydroxyl group of serine or threonine in target proteins (summary by Peng et al., 2010).
Peng et al. (2010) stated that GALNTL5 contains 443 amino acids.
Peng et al. (2010) determined that the GALNTL5 gene contains 8 exons.
Peng et al. (2010) reported that the GALNTL5 gene maps to chromosome 7q36.2. Hartz (2013) mapped the GALNTL5 gene to chromosome 7q36.1 based on an alignment of the GALNTL5 sequence (GenBank AF440400) with the genomic sequence (GRCh37).
Hartz, P. A. Personal Communication. Baltimore, Md. 2/27/2013.
Peng, C., Togayachi, A., Kwon, Y.-D., Xie, C., Wu, G., Zou, X., Sato, T., Ito, H., Tachibana, K., Kubota, T., Noce, T., Narimatsu, H., Zhang, Y. Identification of a novel human UDP-GalNAc transferase with unique catalytic activity and expression profile. Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. 402: 680-686, 2010. [PubMed: 20977886] [Full Text: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbrc.2010.10.084]