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ChGn

Chondroitin sulfate N-acetylgalactosaminyltransferase 1 is an enzyme that in humans is encoded by the CSGALNACT1 gene.

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CSGALNACT1
Identifiers
AliasesCSGALNACT1, CSGalNAcT-1, ChGn, beta4GalNAcT, chondroitin sulfate N-acetylgalactosaminyltransferase 1
External IDsOMIM: 616615; MGI: 2442354; HomoloGene: 23099; GeneCards: CSGALNACT1; OMA:CSGALNACT1 - orthologs
Orthologs
SpeciesHumanMouse
Entrez
Ensembl
UniProt
RefSeq (mRNA)

NM_001130518
NM_018371

NM_001252623
NM_172753
NM_001364256

RefSeq (protein)

NP_001239552
NP_766341
NP_001351185

Location (UCSC)n/aChr 8: 68.81 – 69.19 Mb
PubMed search23
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Chondroitin sulfate N-acetylgalactosaminyltransferase 1 is an enzyme that in humans is encoded by the CSGALNACT1 gene.456

Clinical

A form of mild skeletal dysplasia has been associated with mutations in this gene.7

References

References

  1. GRCm38: Ensembl release 89: ENSMUSG00000036356Ensembl, May 2017
  2. "Human PubMed Reference:". National Center for Biotechnology Information, U.S. National Library of Medicine.
  3. "Mouse PubMed Reference:". National Center for Biotechnology Information, U.S. National Library of Medicine.
  4. Sakai K, Kimata K, Sato T, Gotoh M, Narimatsu H, Shinomiya K, Watanabe H (Feb 2007). "Chondroitin sulfate N-acetylgalactosaminyltransferase-1 plays a critical role in chondroitin sulfate synthesis in cartilage". The Journal of Biological Chemistry. 282 (6): 4152–61. doi:10.1074/jbc.M606870200. PMID 17145758.
  5. Sato T, Gotoh M, Kiyohara K, Akashima T, Iwasaki H, Kameyama A, Mochizuki H, Yada T, Inaba N, Togayachi A, Kudo T, Asada M, Watanabe H, Imamura T, Kimata K, Narimatsu H (Jan 2003). "Differential roles of two N-acetylgalactosaminyltransferases, CSGalNAcT-1, and a novel enzyme, CSGalNAcT-2. Initiation and elongation in synthesis of chondroitin sulfate". The Journal of Biological Chemistry. 278 (5): 3063–71. doi:10.1074/jbc.M208886200. PMID 12446672.
  6. "Entrez Gene: ChGn chondroitin beta1,4 N-acetylgalactosaminyltransferase".
  7. Mizumoto S, Janecke AR, Sadeghpour A, Povysil G, McDonald MT, Unger S, et al. (Task Force for Neonatal Genomics) (November 2019). "CSGALNACT1-congenital disorder of glycosylation: a mild skeletal dysplasia with advanced bone age". Human Mutation. 41 (3): 655–667. doi:10.1002/humu.23952. PMC 7027858. PMID 31705726.
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