Synonyms:B3GAT1, CD57, ENTREZ:27087, GLCATP, GLCUATP, HGNC:921, HNK1, LEU7, MIM:151290, NK-1, NK1, NM_001367973, NM_018644, NM_054025, NP_001354902, NP_061114, NP_473366, XM_011542751, XM_011542753, XM_017017550, XM_017017551, XM_024448439, XP_011541053, XP_011541055, XP_016873039, XP_016873040, XP_024304207, beta-1,3-glucuronyltransferase 1
Id:ENSG00000109956
Description:beta-1,3-glucuronyltransferase 1
The protein encoded by this gene is a member of the glucuronyltransferase gene family. These enzymes exhibit strict acceptor specificity, recognizing nonreducing terminal sugars and their anomeric linkages. This gene product functions as the key enzyme in a glucuronyl transfer reaction during the biosynthesis of the carbohydrate epitope HNK-1 (human natural killer-1, also known as CD57 and LEU7). Alternate transcriptional splice variants have been characterized. [provided by RefSeq, Jul 2008]