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Mucin type O-glycan biosynthesis
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Description |
O-glycans are a class of glycans that modify serine or threonine residues of proteins. Biosynthesis of O-glycans starts from the transfer of N-acetylgalactosamine (GalNAc) to serine or threonine. The first GalNAc may be extended with sugars including galactose, N-acetylglucosamine, fucose, or sialic acid, but not mannose, glucose, or xylose. Depending on the sugars added, there are four common O-glycan core structures, cores 1 through 4, and an additional four, cores 5 though 8. Mucins are highly O-glycosylated glycoproteins ubiquitous in mucous secretions on cell surfaces and in body fluids. Mucin O-glycans can be branched, and many sugars or groups of sugars are antigenic. Important modifications of mucin O-glycans include O-acetylation of sialic acid and O-sulfation of galactose and N-acetylglucosamine.
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Metabolism; Glycan biosynthesis and metabolism
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Pathway map |
rn00512 | Mucin type O-glycan biosynthesis |

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Compound |
G10611 | UDP-N-acetyl-D-galactosamine |
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Brockhausen I. |
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Pathways of O-glycan biosynthesis in cancer cells. |
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Iwai T, Inaba N, Naundorf A, Zhang Y, Gotoh M, Iwasaki H, Kudo T, Togayachi A, Ishizuka Y, Nakanishi H, Narimatsu H. |
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Molecular cloning and characterization of a novel UDP-GlcNAc:GalNAc-peptide beta1,3-N-acetylglucosaminyltransferase (beta 3Gn-T6), an enzyme synthesizing the core 3 structure of O-glycans. |
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Korekane H, Taguchi T, Sakamoto Y, Honke K, Dohmae N, Salminen H, Toivonen S, Helin J, Takio K, Renkonen O, Taniguchi N. |
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Purification and cDNA cloning of UDP-GlcNAc:GlcNAcbeta1-3Galbeta1-4Glc(NAc)-R [GlcNAc to Gal]beta1,6N-acetylglucosaminyltransferase from rat small intestine: a major carrier of dIGnT activity in rat small intestine. |
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van Die I, van Tetering A, Schiphorst WE, Sato T, Furukawa K, van den Eijnden DH. |
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The acceptor substrate specificity of human beta4-galactosyltransferase V indicates its potential function in O-glycosylation. |
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KO pathway |
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