Protein Name UDP-glucose:hexose-1-phosphate uridylyltransferase
Organism Saccharomyces cerevisiae S288C
Gene ID 852306
Gene Symbol

GAL7

UniProt P08431 (GAL7_YEAST)
Relationships Total Number of functionally related compound(s) : 17
Total Number of Articles : 44
Description

UDP-glucose:hexose-1-phosphate uridylyltransferase

Gene Summary

Enables UDP-glucose:hexose-1-phosphate uridylyltransferase activity. Involved in galactose catabolic process via UDP-galactose. Located in cytoplasm. Used to study galactosemia. Human ortholog(s) of this gene implicated in classic galactosemia and galactosemia. Orthologous to human GALT (galactose-1-phosphate uridylyltransferase). [provided by Alliance of Genome Resources, Apr 2022]

synonyms
  • UDP-glucose:hexose-1-phosphate uridylyltransferase
  • YBR018C
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Properties