Expression cloning of a cDNA for human ceramide glucosyltransferase that catalyzes the first glycosylation step of glycosphingolipid synthesis

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 93, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 4638-4643

  Ichikawa, Shinichi ^a   Sakiyama, Hisako ^b   Suzuki, Gen ^b   Jwa Hidari, Kazuya I P ^a   Hirabayashi, Yoshio ^a  

^a Physical/Chemical Research Institute   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF RADIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

glucocerebroside; glucosylceramide; glucosylceramide synthase; melanoma

Indexed keywords

CERAMIDE GLUCOSYLTRANSFERASE; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; GLUCOSYLCERAMIDE; GLUCOSYLTRANSFERASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; DNA DETERMINATION; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ENZYME MECHANISM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GLYCOSYLATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; ISOLATION PROCEDURE; MOLECULAR CLONING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE COMPOSITION; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL LINE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GALACTOSYLTRANSFERASES; GENE EXPRESSION; GLUCOSYLTRANSFERASES; GLYCOSPHINGOLIPIDS; GLYCOSYLATION; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; N-ACYLSPHINGOSINE GALACTOSYLTRANSFERASE; OPEN READING FRAMES; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; RNA, MESSENGER; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 0029895702     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.93.10.4638     Document Type: Article

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