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Facts about Polypeptide N-acetylgalactosaminyltransferase 6.
Has action toward Muc1a, Muc2, EA2 and fibronectin peptides. .
| Human | |
|---|---|
| Gene Name: | GALNT6 |
| Uniprot: | Q8NCL4 |
| Entrez: | 11226 |

| Belongs to: |
|---|
| glycosyltransferase 2 family |

EC 2.4.1.41; GalNAc transferase 6; GalNAcT6; GALNAC-T6; Polypeptide GalNAc transferase 6; polypeptide N-acetylgalactosaminyltransferase 6; pp-GaNTase 6; Protein-UDP acetylgalactosaminyltransferase 6; UDP-GalNAc:polypeptide N-acetylgalactosaminyltransferase 6; UDP-N-acetyl-alpha-D-galactosamine: polypeptideN-acetylgalactosaminyltransferase 6; UDP-N-acetyl-alpha-D-galactosamine:polypeptideN-acetylgalactosaminyltransferase 6 (GalNAc-T6)
Mass (kDA):
71.159 kDA

| Human | |
|---|---|
| Location: | 12q13.13 |
| Sequence: | 12; NC_000012.12 (51351252..51391955, complement) |
Expressed in placenta and trachea. Weakly expressed in brain and pancreas. Expressed in fibroblast. Weakly or not expressed in lung, liver, muscle, kidney, spleen, thymus, prostate, testis, ovary, intestine, colon, leukocyte, stomach, thyroid, spinal cord, lymph node, trachea, adrenal gland and bone marrow.
Golgi apparatus membrane; Single-pass type II membrane protein.




PMID: 10464263 by Bennett E.P., et al. Cloning and characterization of a close homologue of human UDP-N- acetyl--D-galactosamine:polypeptide N-acetylgalactosaminyltransferase- T3, designated GalNAc-T6. Evidence for genetic but not functional redundancy.