GALNT13 explained

Polypeptide N-acetylgalactosaminyltransferase 13 is an enzyme that in humans is encoded by the GALNT13 gene.^{[1] [2] [3]}

The GALNT13 protein is a member of the UDP-N-acetyl-alpha-D-galactosamine:polypeptide N-acetylgalactosaminyltransferase (GalNAcT; EC 2.4.1.41) family, which initiate O-linked glycosylation of mucins (see MUC3A, MIM 158371) by the initial transfer of N-acetylgalactosamine (GalNAc) with an alpha-linkage to a serine or threonine residue.[supplied by OMIM]^[3]

Further reading

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• Strausberg RL, Feingold EA, Grouse LH . Generation and initial analysis of more than 15,000 full-length human and mouse cDNA sequences. . Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. . 99 . 26 . 16899–903 . 2003 . 12477932 . 10.1073/pnas.242603899 . 139241 . 2002PNAS...9916899M . etal. free .
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• Brandenberger R, Wei H, Zhang S . Transcriptome characterization elucidates signaling networks that control human ES cell growth and differentiation. . Nat. Biotechnol. . 22 . 6 . 707–16 . 2005 . 15146197 . 10.1038/nbt971 . 27764390 . etal.
• Lehner B, Sanderson CM . A protein interaction framework for human mRNA degradation. . Genome Res. . 14 . 7 . 1315–23 . 2004 . 15231747 . 10.1101/gr.2122004 . 442147 .
• Hillier LW, Graves TA, Fulton RS . Generation and annotation of the DNA sequences of human chromosomes 2 and 4. . Nature . 434 . 7034 . 724–31 . 2005 . 15815621 . 10.1038/nature03466 . 2005Natur.434..724H . etal. free .

Notes and References

1. Nagase T, Kikuno R, Ohara O . Prediction of the coding sequences of unidentified human genes. XXI. The complete sequences of 60 new cDNA clones from brain which code for large proteins . DNA Res . 8 . 4 . 179–87 . Sep 2001 . 11572484 . 10.1093/dnares/8.4.179 . free .
2. Zhang Y, Iwasaki H, Wang H, Kudo T, Kalka TB, Hennet T, Kubota T, Cheng L, Inaba N, Gotoh M, Togayachi A, Guo J, Hisatomi H, Nakajima K, Nishihara S, Nakamura M, Marth JD, Narimatsu H . Cloning and characterization of a new human UDP-N-acetyl-alpha-D-galactosamine:polypeptide N-acetylgalactosaminyltransferase, designated pp-GalNAc-T13, that is specifically expressed in neurons and synthesizes GalNAc alpha-serine/threonine antigen . J Biol Chem . 278 . 1 . 573–84 . Dec 2002 . 12407114 . 10.1074/jbc.M203094200 . free .
3. Web site: Entrez Gene: GALNT13 UDP-N-acetyl-alpha-D-galactosamine:polypeptide N-acetylgalactosaminyltransferase 13 (GalNAc-T13).