CHST6

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CHST6
Identifiers
Aliases CHST6 , MCDC1, carbohydrate sulfotransferase 6, GST4-beta, gn6st-5, hCGn6ST, glcNAc6ST-5, C-GlcNAc6ST
External IDs OMIM: 605294; MGI: 1931825; HomoloGene: 56927; GeneCards: CHST6; OMA:CHST6 - orthologs
Orthologs
SpeciesHumanMouse
Entrez
Ensembl
UniProt
RefSeq (mRNA)

NM_021615

NM_019950

RefSeq (protein)

NP_067628

NP_064334

Location (UCSC) Chr 16: 75.47 – 75.5 Mb Chr 8: 112.62 – 112.64 Mb
PubMed search [3] [4]
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Carbohydrate sulfotransferase 6 is an enzyme that in humans is encoded by the CHST6 gene. [5] [6] [7]

Contents

It codes for an enzyme necessary for the production of keratan sulfate. Mutations in the gene lead to macular corneal dystrophy.

References

  1. 1 2 3 GRCh38: Ensembl release 89: ENSG00000183196 Ensembl, May 2017
  2. 1 2 3 GRCm38: Ensembl release 89: ENSMUSG00000031952 Ensembl, May 2017
  3. "Human PubMed Reference:". National Center for Biotechnology Information, U.S. National Library of Medicine.
  4. "Mouse PubMed Reference:". National Center for Biotechnology Information, U.S. National Library of Medicine.
  5. Vance JM, Jonasson F, Lennon F, Sarrica J, Damji KF, Stauffer J, Pericak-Vance MA, Klintworth GK (Jul 1996). "Linkage of a gene for macular corneal dystrophy to chromosome 16". Am J Hum Genet. 58 (4): 757–62. PMC   1914688 . PMID   8644739.
  6. Akama TO, Nishida K, Nakayama J, Watanabe H, Ozaki K, Nakamura T, Dota A, Kawasaki S, Inoue Y, Maeda N, Yamamoto S, Fujiwara T, Thonar EJ, Shimomura Y, Kinoshita S, Tanigami A, Fukuda MN (Nov 2000). "Macular corneal dystrophy type I and type II are caused by distinct mutations in a new sulphotransferase gene". Nat Genet. 26 (2): 237–41. doi:10.1038/79987. PMID   11017086. S2CID   25547752.
  7. "Entrez Gene: CHST6 carbohydrate (N-acetylglucosamine 6-O) sulfotransferase 6".

Further reading