Fucosyltransferase 3

FUT3
Identifiers
Aliases	FUT3, CD174, FT3B, FucT-III, LE, Les, Fucosyltransferase 3, fucosyltransferase 3 (Lewis blood group)
External IDs	HomoloGene: 128031; GeneCards: FUT3; OMA:FUT3 - orthologs
Gene location (Human) Chr. Chromosome 19 (human) Band 19p13.3 Start 5,842,888 bp End 5,851,474 bp
RNA expression pattern Bgee Human Mouse (ortholog) Top expressed in mucosa of transverse colon nasal epithelium mucosa of ileum oral cavity rectum minor salivary glands mucosa of pharynx buccal mucosa cell duodenum amniotic fluid n/a More reference expression data BioGPS More reference expression data
Gene ontology Molecular function transferase activity alpha-(1->3)-fucosyltransferase activity fucosyltransferase activity glycosyltransferase activity 3-galactosyl-N-acetylglucosaminide 4-alpha-L-fucosyltransferase activity Cellular component integral component of membrane Golgi cisterna membrane Golgi apparatus extracellular exosome membrane Golgi membrane Biological process cell-cell recognition oligosaccharide biosynthetic process protein glycosylation macromolecule glycosylation fucosylation ceramide metabolic process Sources:Amigo / QuickGO
Orthologs Species Human Mouse Entrez 2525 n/a Ensembl ENSG00000171124 n/a UniProt P21217 n/a RefSeq (mRNA) NM_000149 NM_001097639 NM_001097640 NM_001097641 NM_001374740 n/a RefSeq (protein) NP_000140 NP_001091108 NP_001091109 NP_001091110 NP_001361669 NP_001369673 NP_001369674 NP_001369675 NP_001369676 NP_001369677 NP_001369678 NP_001369679 n/a Location (UCSC) Chr 19: 5.84 – 5.85 Mb n/a PubMed search n/a
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Galactoside 3(4)-L-fucosyltransferase is an enzyme that in humans is encoded by the FUT3 gene.

Function

The Lewis histo-blood group system comprises a set of fucosylated glycosphingolipids that are synthesized by exocrine epithelial cells and circulate in body fluids. The glycosphingolipids function in embryogenesis, tissue differentiation, tumor metastasis, inflammation, and bacterial adhesion. They are secondarily absorbed to red blood cells giving rise to their Lewis phenotype. This gene is a member of the fucosyltransferase family, which catalyzes the addition of fucose to precursor polysaccharides in the last step of Lewis antigen biosynthesis. It encodes an enzyme with alpha(1,3)-fucosyltransferase and alpha(1,4)-fucosyltransferase activities. Mutations in this gene are responsible for the majority of Lewis antigen-negative phenotypes. Multiple alternatively spliced variants, encoding the same protein, have been found for this gene.

See also

• Cluster of differentiation

Further reading

• Cameron HS, Szczepaniak D, Weston BW (Aug 1995). "Expression of human chromosome 19p alpha(1,3)-fucosyltransferase genes in normal tissues. Alternative splicing, polyadenylation, and isoforms". The Journal of Biological Chemistry. 270 (34): 20112–22. doi:10.1074/jbc.270.34.20112. PMID 7650030.
• Reguigne-Arnould I, Couillin P, Mollicone R, Fauré S, Fletcher A, Kelly RJ, Lowe JB, Oriol R (1995). "Relative positions of two clusters of human alpha-L-fucosyltransferases in 19q (FUT1-FUT2) and 19p (FUT6-FUT3-FUT5) within the microsatellite genetic map of chromosome 19". Cytogenetics and Cell Genetics. 71 (2): 158–62. doi:10.1159/000134098. PMID 7656588.
• Nishihara S, Nakazato M, Kudo T, Kimura H, Ando T, Narimatsu H (Jan 1993). "Human alpha-1,3 fucosyltransferase (FucT-VI) gene is located at only 13 kb 3' to the Lewis type fucosyltransferase (FucT-III) gene on chromosome 19". Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. 190 (1): 42–6. doi:10.1006/bbrc.1993.1008. PMID 7916594.
• Nishihara S, Narimatsu H, Iwasaki H, Yazawa S, Akamatsu S, Ando T, Seno T, Narimatsu I (Nov 1994). "Molecular genetic analysis of the human Lewis histo-blood group system". The Journal of Biological Chemistry. 269 (46): 29271–8. PMID 7961897.
• Mollicone R, Reguigne I, Kelly RJ, Fletcher A, Watt J, Chatfield S, Aziz A, Cameron HS, Weston BW, Lowe JB (Aug 1994). "Molecular basis for Lewis alpha(1,3/1,4)-fucosyltransferase gene deficiency (FUT3) found in Lewis-negative Indonesian pedigrees". The Journal of Biological Chemistry. 269 (33): 20987–94. PMID 8063716.
• Koda Y, Kimura H, Mekada E (Nov 1993). "Analysis of Lewis fucosyltransferase genes from the human gastric mucosa of Lewis-positive and -negative individuals". Blood. 82 (9): 2915–9. PMID 8219240.
• Elmgren A, Rydberg L, Larson G (Oct 1993). "Genotypic heterogeneity among Lewis negative individuals". Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. 196 (2): 515–20. doi:10.1006/bbrc.1993.2280. PMID 8240322.
• Nishihara S, Yazawa S, Iwasaki H, Nakazato M, Kudo T, Ando T, Narimatsu H (Oct 1993). "Alpha (1,3/1,4)fucosyltransferase (FucT-III) gene is inactivated by a single amino acid substitution in Lewis histo-blood type negative individuals". Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. 196 (2): 624–31. doi:10.1006/bbrc.1993.2295. PMID 8240337.
• Elmgren A, Börjeson C, Svensson L, Rydberg L, Larson G (1996). "DNA sequencing and screening for point mutations in the human Lewis (FUT3) gene enables molecular genotyping of the human Lewis blood group system". Vox Sanguinis. 70 (2): 97–103. doi:10.1111/j.1423-0410.1996.tb01300.x. PMID 8801770.
• Bonaldo MF, Lennon G, Soares MB (Sep 1996). "Normalization and subtraction: two approaches to facilitate gene discovery". Genome Research. 6 (9): 791–806. doi:10.1101/gr.6.9.791. PMID 8889548.
• Orntoft TF, Vestergaard EM, Holmes E, Jakobsen JS, Grunnet N, Mortensen M, Johnson P, Bross P, Gregersen N, Skorstengaard K, Jensen UB, Bolund L, Wolf H (Dec 1996). "Influence of Lewis alpha1-3/4-L-fucosyltransferase (FUT3) gene mutations on enzyme activity, erythrocyte phenotyping, and circulating tumor marker sialyl-Lewis a levels". The Journal of Biological Chemistry. 271 (50): 32260–8. doi:10.1074/jbc.271.50.32260. PMID 8943285.
• Elmgren A, Mollicone R, Costache M, Börjeson C, Oriol R, Harrington J, Larson G (Aug 1997). "Significance of individual point mutations, T202C and C314T, in the human Lewis (FUT3) gene for expression of Lewis antigens by the human alpha(1,3/1,4)-fucosyltransferase, Fuc-TIII". The Journal of Biological Chemistry. 272 (35): 21994–8. doi:10.1074/jbc.272.35.21994. PMID 9268337.
• Pang H, Liu Y, Koda Y, Soejima M, Jia J, Schlaphoff T, Du Toit ED, Kimura H (Jun 1998). "Five novel missense mutations of the Lewis gene (FUT3) in African (Xhosa) and Caucasian populations in South Africa". Human Genetics. 102 (6): 675–80. doi:10.1007/s004390050760. PMID 9703429.
• Nishihara S, Hiraga T, Ikehara Y, Iwasaki H, Kudo T, Yazawa S, Morozumi K, Suda Y, Narimatsu H (Apr 1999). "Molecular behavior of mutant Lewis enzymes in vivo". Glycobiology. 9 (4): 373–82. doi:10.1093/glycob/9.4.373. PMID 10089211.
• Yazawa S, Tanaka S, Nishimura T, Miyanaga K, Kochibe N (1999). "Plasma alpha1,3-fucosyltransferase deficiency in schizophrenia". Experimental and Clinical Immunogenetics. 16 (3): 125–30. doi:10.1159/000019104. PMID 10394050.
• Holmes EH, Yen TY, Thomas S, Joshi R, Nguyen A, Long T, Gallet F, Maftah A, Julien R, Macher BA (Aug 2000). "Human alpha 1,3/4 fucosyltransferases. Characterization of highly conserved cysteine residues and N-linked glycosylation sites". The Journal of Biological Chemistry. 275 (32): 24237–45. doi:10.1074/jbc.M000888200. PMID 10816554.
• Grahn A, Elmgren A, Aberg L, Svensson L, Jansson PA, Lönnroth P, Larson G (Oct 2001). "Determination of Lewis FUT3 gene mutations by PCR using sequence-specific primers enables efficient genotyping of clinical samples". Human Mutation. 18 (4): 358–9. doi:10.1002/humu.1204. PMID 11668626.
• Roos C, Kolmer M, Mattila P, Renkonen R (Feb 2002). "Composition of Drosophila melanogaster proteome involved in fucosylated glycan metabolism". The Journal of Biological Chemistry. 277 (5): 3168–75. doi:10.1074/jbc.M107927200. PMID 11698403.

External links

• CD174+Antigen at the U.S. National Library of Medicine Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)