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Facts about Carbohydrate sulfotransferase 6.
Keratan sulfate plays a central role in maintaining corneal transparency. Acts on the non-reducing terminal GlcNAc of long and short carbohydrate substrates that have poly-N- acetyllactosamine structures.
Human | |
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Gene Name: | CHST6 |
Uniprot: | Q9GZX3 |
Entrez: | 4166 |
Belongs to: |
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sulfotransferase 1 family |
carbohydrate (N-acetylglucosamine 6-O) sulfotransferase 6; Carbohydrate Sulfotransferase 6; C-GlcNAc6ST; CGn6ST; CHST6; corneal N-acetylglucosamine 6-sulfotransferase; Corneal N-acetylglucosamine-6-O-sulfotransferase; EC 2.8.2; EC 2.8.2.-; EC 2.8.2.17; EC 2.8.2.21; Galactose/N-acetylglucosamine/N-acetylglucosamine 6-O-sulfotransferase 4-beta; GlcNAc6ST-5; gn6st-5; GST4-beta; hCGn6ST; MCDC1; N-acetylglucosamine 6-O-sulfotransferase 5
Mass (kDA):
44.099 kDA
Human | |
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Location: | 16q23.1 |
Sequence: | 16; NC_000016.10 (75472042..75495441, complement) |
Expressed in cornea. Mainly expressed in brain. Also expressed in spinal cord and trachea.
Golgi apparatus membrane; Single-pass type II membrane protein.
PMID: 11017086 by Akama T.O., et al. Macular corneal dystrophy type I and type II are caused by distinct mutations in a new sulphotransferase gene.
PMID: 11181564 by Hemmerich S., et al. Chromosomal localization and genomic organization for the galactose/ N-acetylgalactosamine/N-acetylglucosamine 6-O-sulfotransferase gene family.