CHST6

Carbohydrate (N-acetylglucosamine 6-O) sulfotransferase 6

Identifiers

CHST6 ; MCDC1

External IDs

OMIM: 605294 MGI: 1931825 HomoloGene: 56927 GeneCards: CHST6 Gene

Gene ontology
Molecular function	• N-acetylglucosamine 6-O-sulfotransferase activity
Cellular component	• Golgi membrane • Golgi apparatus • integral component of membrane
Biological process	• carbohydrate metabolic process • N-acetylglucosamine metabolic process • sulfur compound metabolic process • keratan sulfate biosynthetic process • glycosaminoglycan metabolic process • keratan sulfate metabolic process • small molecule metabolic process
Sources: Amigo / QuickGO

Orthologs

Species

Human

Mouse

RefSeq (mRNA)

RefSeq (protein)

Location (UCSC)

Chr 16:
75.47 – 75.5 Mb

Chr 8:
111.89 – 111.91 Mb

PubMed search

Carbohydrate sulfotransferase 6 is an enzyme that in humans is encoded by the CHST6 gene.^[1]^[2]^[3]

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

References

↑ 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.
↑ 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.
↑ "Entrez Gene: CHST6 carbohydrate (N-acetylglucosamine 6-O) sulfotransferase 6".

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