Galactose-3-O-sulfotransferase

Identifiers

Symbol

Gal-3-0_sulphotransfrase

Available protein structures:
Pfam	structures
PDB	RCSB PDB; PDBe
PDBsum	structure summary

Galactose-3-O-sulfotransferases is a family of several mammalian galactose-3-O-sulfotransferase proteins. Gal-3-O-sulfotransferase is thought to play a critical role in 3'-sulfation of N-acetyllactosamine in both O- and N-glycans^[1].

Human proteins from this family

GAL3ST1; GAL3ST2; GAL3ST3; GAL3ST4; GP3ST;

References

^ Suzuki A, Fukuda M, Suzuki M, Hiraoka N, Angata K, Misra AK, Mcauliffe J, Hindsgaul O (2001). "Molecular cloning and expression of a novel human beta-Gal-3-O-sulfotransferase that acts preferentially on N-acetyllactosamine in N- and O-glycans". J. Biol. Chem. 276 (26): 24388–24395. doi:10.1074/jbc.M103135200. PMID 11323440.

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