Protein Domain : Glycosyl transferase, family 8 IPR002495

Type  Family
Description  The biosynthesis of disaccharides, oligosaccharides and polysaccharides involves the action of hundreds of different glycosyltransferases. These enzymes catalyse the transfer of sugar moieties from activated donor molecules to specific acceptor molecules, forming glycosidic bonds. A classification of glycosyltransferases using nucleotide diphospho-sugar, nucleotide monophospho-sugar and sugar phosphates ([intenz:2.4.1.-]) and related proteins into distinct sequence based families has been described [ ]. This classification is available on the CAZy (CArbohydrate-Active EnZymes) web site. The same three-dimensional fold is expected to occur within each of the families. Because 3-D structures are better conserved than sequences, several of the families defined on the basis of sequence similarities may have similar 3-D structures and therefore form 'clans'.Glycosyltransferase family 8 comprises enzymes with a number of known activities; lipopolysaccharide galactosyltransferase ( ), lipopolysaccharide glucosyltransferase 1 ( ), glycogenin glucosyltransferase ( ), inositol 1-α-galactosyltransferase ( ), α-1,3-xylosyltransferase and β-1,3-glucuronyltransferase [ ]. These enzymes have a distant similarity to family GT_24.
Short Name  Glyco_trans_8

1 Child Features

22 Gene Families

5326 Genes

1 Ontology Annotations

0 Parent Features

14 Publications

USDA
InterMine logo
The Legume Information System (LIS) is a research project of the USDA-ARS:Corn Insects and Crop Genetics Research in Ames, IA.
LegumeMine || ArachisMine | CicerMine | GlycineMine | LensMine | LupinusMine | PhaseolusMine | VignaMine | MedicagoMine
InterMine © 2002 - 2022 Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3EH, United Kingdom