IUBMB Enzyme Nomenclature

EC 2.3.1.96

Accepted name: glycoprotein N-palmitoyltransferase

Reaction: palmitoyl-CoA + glycoprotein = CoA + N-palmitoylglycoprotein

Other name(s): mucus glycoprotein fatty acyltransferase

Systematic name: palmitoyl-CoA:glycoprotein N-palmitoyltransferase

Comments: Acts on mucins. Activated by 1,4-dithiothreitol.

Links to other databases: BRENDA, EXPASY, KEGG, CAS registry number: 97162-74-8

References:

1. Liau, Y.H., Slomiany,A., Piasek, A., Palmer, D. and Rosenthal, W.S. Identification of mucus glycoprotein fatty acyltransferase activity in human gastric mucosa. Digestion 32 (1985) 57-62. [PMID: 4018446]

[EC 2.3.1.96 created 1989]


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