Description

IPR002495 is a Glycosyl transferase, family 8.

<p>This entry represents Glycosyltransferase family 8.</p> <p>Glycosyltransferase family 8 [cazy:GT8] comprises enzymes with a number of known activities; lipopolysaccharide galactosyltransferase ([ec:2.4.1.44]), lipopolysaccharide glucosyltransferase 1 ([ec:2.4.1.58]), glycogenin glucosyltransferase ([ec:2.4.1.186]), inositol 1-α-galactosyltransferase ([ec:2.4.1.123]), α-1,3-xylosyltransferase and β-1,3-glucuronyltransferase [[cite:PUB00100246]]. These enzymes have a distant similarity to family GT_24.</p> <p>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 ([ec:2.4.1.-]) and related proteins into distinct sequence based families has been described [[cite:PUB00009409]]. 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'.</p>

This description is obtained from EB-eye REST.

Associated GO terms

GO predictions are based solely on the InterPro-to-GO mappings published by EMBL-EBI, which are in turn based on the mapping of predicted domains to the InterPro dataset. The InterPro-to-GO mapping was last updated on April 27, 2020, while the GO metadata was last updated on April 27, 2020.

Associated Lotus transcripts 140