SLC35A2

Solute carrier family 35 (UDP-galactose transporter), member A2
Identifiers
Symbol(s)	SLC35A2; UGAT; UGALT; UGT; UGT1; UGT2; UGTL
External IDs	OMIM: 314375 MGI: 1345297 Homologene: 38085
Gene ontology Molecular Function: • nucleotide-sugar transmembrane transporter activity • sugar:hydrogen ion symporter activity • UDP-galactose transmembrane transporter activity Cellular Component: • Golgi membrane • membrane • integral to membrane Biological Process: • galactose metabolic process • carbohydrate transport • nucleotide-sugar transport • UDP-galactose transport
RNA expression pattern
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Orthologs
	Human	Mouse
Entrez	7355	22232
Ensembl	ENSG00000102100	ENSMUSG00000031156
Uniprot	P78381	Q3U1S3
Refseq	NM_001032289 (mRNA) NP_001027460 (protein)	NM_078484 (mRNA) NP_511039 (protein)
Location	Chr X: 48.65 - 48.65 Mb	Chr X: 7.04 - 7.05 Mb
Pubmed search	[1]	[2]

Solute carrier family 35 (UDP-galactose transporter), member A2, also known as SLC35A2, is a human gene.

See also

• Solute carrier family

Further reading

• Maruyama K, Sugano S (1994). "Oligo-capping: a simple method to replace the cap structure of eukaryotic mRNAs with oligoribonucleotides.". Gene 138 (1-2): 171-4. PMID 8125298.
• Hara T, Yamauchi M, Takahashi E, et al. (1994). "The UDP-galactose translocator gene is mapped to band Xp11.23-p11.22 containing the Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome locus.". Somat. Cell Mol. Genet. 19 (6): 571-5. PMID 8128316.
• Miura N, Ishida N, Hoshino M, et al. (1997). "Human UDP-galactose translocator: molecular cloning of a complementary DNA that complements the genetic defect of a mutant cell line deficient in UDP-galactose translocator.". J. Biochem. 120 (2): 236-41. PMID 8889805.
• Ishida N, Miura N, Yoshioka S, Kawakita M (1997). "Molecular cloning and characterization of a novel isoform of the human UDP-galactose transporter, and of related complementary DNAs belonging to the nucleotide-sugar transporter gene family.". J. Biochem. 120 (6): 1074-8. PMID 9010752.
• Suzuki Y, Yoshitomo-Nakagawa K, Maruyama K, et al. (1997). "Construction and characterization of a full length-enriched and a 5'-end-enriched cDNA library.". Gene 200 (1-2): 149-56. PMID 9373149.
• Yoshioka S, Sun-Wada GH, Ishida N, Kawakita M (1998). "Expression of the human UDP-galactose transporter in the Golgi membranes of murine Had-1 cells that lack the endogenous transporter.". J. Biochem. 122 (4): 691-5. PMID 9399569.
• Aoki K, Ishida N, Kawakita M (2001). "Substrate recognition by UDP-galactose and CMP-sialic acid transporters. Different sets of transmembrane helices are utilized for the specific recognition of UDP-galactose and CMP-sialic acid.". J. Biol. Chem. 276 (24): 21555-61. doi:10.1074/jbc.M101462200. PMID 11279205.
• Kumamoto K, Goto Y, Sekikawa K, et al. (2001). "Increased expression of UDP-galactose transporter messenger RNA in human colon cancer tissues and its implication in synthesis of Thomsen-Friedenreich antigen and sialyl Lewis A/X determinants.". Cancer Res. 61 (11): 4620-7. PMID 11389099.
• Strausberg RL, Feingold EA, Grouse LH, et al. (2003). "Generation and initial analysis of more than 15,000 full-length human and mouse cDNA sequences.". Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 99 (26): 16899-903. doi:10.1073/pnas.242603899. PMID 12477932.
• Sprong H, Degroote S, Nilsson T, et al. (2004). "Association of the Golgi UDP-galactose transporter with UDP-galactose:ceramide galactosyltransferase allows UDP-galactose import in the endoplasmic reticulum.". Mol. Biol. Cell 14 (8): 3482-93. doi:10.1091/mbc.E03-03-0130. PMID 12925779.
• Ota T, Suzuki Y, Nishikawa T, et al. (2004). "Complete sequencing and characterization of 21,243 full-length human cDNAs.". Nat. Genet. 36 (1): 40-5. doi:10.1038/ng1285. PMID 14702039.
• Rual JF, Venkatesan K, Hao T, et al. (2005). "Towards a proteome-scale map of the human protein-protein interaction network.". Nature 437 (7062): 1173-8. doi:10.1038/nature04209. PMID 16189514.