LOCUS       BAA77609.1               331 aa    PRT              HUM 14-MAY-1999
DEFINITION  Homo sapiens alpha2,3-sialyltransferase ST3Gal VI protein.
ACCESSION   AB022918-1
PROTEIN_ID  BAA77609.1
SOURCE      Homo sapiens (human)
  ORGANISM  Homo sapiens
            Eukaryota; Metazoa; Chordata; Craniata; Vertebrata; Euteleostomi;
            Mammalia; Eutheria; Euarchontoglires; Primates; Haplorrhini;
            Catarrhini; Hominidae; Homo.
REFERENCE   1  (bases 1 to 1469)
  AUTHORS   Furukawa,K.
  TITLE     Direct Submission
  JOURNAL   Submitted (29-JAN-1999) to the DDBJ/EMBL/GenBank databases.
            Contact:Koichi Furukawa
            Nagoya University School of Medicine, Department of Biochemistry
            II; 65 Tsurumai, Showa-ku, Nagoya, Aichi 466-0065, Japan
REFERENCE   2
  AUTHORS   Okajima,T., Fukumoto,S., Miyazaki,H., Ishida,H., Kiso,M.,
            Furukawa,K., Urano,T. and Furukawa,K.
  TITLE     Molecular cloning of a novel alpha2,3-sialyltransferase (ST3Gal
            VI) that sialylates type II lactosamine structures on
            glycoproteins and glycolipids
  JOURNAL   J. Biol. Chem. 274, 11479-11486 (1999)
COMMENT     
FEATURES             Qualifiers
     source          /cell_line="SK-MEL-37"
                     /cell_type="melanoma"
                     /db_xref="H-InvDB:HIT000058758"
                     /db_xref="taxon:9606"
                     /mol_type="mRNA"
                     /note="vector:pCDM8"
                     /organism="Homo sapiens"
     protein         /function="synthesize sialylparagloboside"
                     /gene="ST3Gal VI"
                     /note="novel alpha2,3-sialyltransferase"
                     /transl_table=1
BEGIN
        1 MRGYLVAIFL SAVFLYYVLH CILWGTNVYW VAPVEMKRRN KIQPCLSKPA FASLLRFHQF
       61 HPFLCAADFR KIASLYGSDK FDLPYGMRTS AEYFRLALSK LQSCDLFDEF DNIPCKKCVV
      121 VGNGGVLKNK TLGEKIDSYD VIIRMNNGPV LGHEEEVGRR TTFRLFYPES VFSDPIHNDP
      181 NTTVILTAFK PHDLRWLLEL LMGDKINTNG FWKKPALNLI YKPYQIRILD PFIIRTAAYE
      241 LLHFPKVFPK NQKPKHPTTG IIAITLAFYI CHEVHLAGFK YNFSDLKSPL HYYGNATMSL
      301 MNKNAYHNVT AEQLFLKDII EKNLVINLTQ D
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