UAP1 explained

UDP-N-acetylhexosamine pyrophosphorylase is an enzyme that in humans is encoded by the UAP1 gene.^{[1] [2] [3]}

Further reading

• Diekman AB, Olson G, Goldberg E . Expression of the human antigen SPAG2 in the testis and localization to the outer dense fibers in spermatozoa. . Mol. Reprod. Dev. . 50 . 3 . 284–93 . 1998 . 9621304 . 10.1002/(SICI)1098-2795(199807)50:3<284::AID-MRD4>3.0.CO;2-F . 25271682 .
• Wang-Gillam A, Pastuszak I, Elbein AD . A 17-amino acid insert changes UDP-N-acetylhexosamine pyrophosphorylase specificity from UDP-GalNAc to UDP-GlcNAc. . J. Biol. Chem. . 273 . 42 . 27055–7 . 1998 . 9765219 . 10.1074/jbc.273.42.27055 . free .
• Peneff C . Crystal structures of two human pyrophosphorylase isoforms in complexes with UDPGlc(Gal)NAc: role of the alternatively spliced insert in the enzyme oligomeric assembly and active site architecture . EMBO J. . 20 . 22 . 6191–202 . 2002 . 11707391 . 10.1093/emboj/20.22.6191 . 125729 . vanc. Ferrari P . Charrier V . 3 . Taburet . Y . Monnier . C . Zamboni . V . Winter . J . Harnois . M . Fassy . F .
• Strausberg RL . 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 . vanc. Feingold EA . Grouse LH . 3 . Derge . JG . Klausner . RD . Collins . FS . Wagner . L . Shenmen . CM . Schuler . GD . 2002PNAS...9916899M . free .
• Gerhard DS . The Status, Quality, and Expansion of the NIH Full-Length cDNA Project: The Mammalian Gene Collection (MGC) . Genome Res. . 14 . 10B . 2121–7 . 2004 . 15489334 . 10.1101/gr.2596504 . 528928 . vanc. Wagner L . Feingold EA . 3 . Shenmen . CM . Grouse . LH . Schuler . G . Klein . SL . Old . S . Rasooly . R .
• Rual JF . Towards a proteome-scale map of the human protein-protein interaction network . Nature . 437 . 7062 . 1173–8 . 2005 . 16189514 . 10.1038/nature04209 . vanc. Venkatesan K . Hao T . 3 . Hirozane-Kishikawa . Tomoko . Dricot . Amélie . Li . Ning . Berriz . Gabriel F. . Gibbons . Francis D. . Dreze . Matija . 2005Natur.437.1173R . 4427026 .
• Gregory SG . The DNA sequence and biological annotation of human chromosome 1 . Nature . 441 . 7091 . 315–21 . 2006 . 16710414 . 10.1038/nature04727 . vanc. Barlow KF . McLay KE . 3 . Kaul . R. . Swarbreck . D. . Dunham . A. . Scott . C. E. . Howe . K. L. . Woodfine . K. . 2006Natur.441..315G . free .

Notes and References

1. Mio T, Yabe T, Arisawa M, Yamada-Okabe H . The eukaryotic UDP-N-acetylglucosamine pyrophosphorylases. Gene cloning, protein expression, and catalytic mechanism . J Biol Chem . 273 . 23 . 14392–7 . Jul 1998 . 9603950 . 10.1074/jbc.273.23.14392 . free .
2. Diekman AB, Goldberg E . Characterization of a human antigen with sera from infertile patients . Biol Reprod . 50 . 5 . 1087–93 . Aug 1994 . 8025165 . 10.1095/biolreprod50.5.1087 . free .
3. Web site: Entrez Gene: UAP1 UDP-N-acteylglucosamine pyrophosphorylase 1.