Entrez 27090 | Ensembl ENSG00000136840 | |
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Aliases ST6GALNAC4, IV, SIAT3-C, SIAT3C, SIAT7-D, SIAT7D, ST6GALNACIV, ST6GalNAc, ST6 N-acetylgalactosaminide alpha-2,6-sialyltransferase 4 External IDs MGI: 1341894 HomoloGene: 7939 GeneCards: ST6GALNAC4 | ||
ST6 (alpha-N-acetyl-neuraminyl-2,3-beta-galactosyl-1,3)-N-acetylgalactosaminide alpha-2,6-sialyltransferase 4, also known as sialyltransferase 3C (SIAT3-C) or sialyltransferase 7D (SIAT7-D) is a sialyltransferase enzyme that in humans is encoded by the ST6GALNAC4 gene.
Function
ST6GALNAC4 is a type II membrane protein that catalyzes the transfer of sialic acid from CMP-sialic acid to galactose-containing substrates. The encoded protein prefers glycoproteins rather than glycolipids as substrates and shows restricted substrate specificity, utilizing only the trisaccharide sequence Neu5Ac-alpha-2,3-Gal-beta-1,3-GalNAc. In addition, it is involved in the synthesis of ganglioside GD1A from GM1B. The enzyme is normally found in the Golgi apparatus but can be proteolytically processed to a soluble form. This protein is a member of glycosyltransferase family 29. Transcript variants encoding different isoforms have been found for this gene.