Galactose mutarotase

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GALM
Available structures PDB Ortholog search: PDBe RCSB List of PDB id codes 1SNZ, 1SO0
Identifiers
Aliases	GALM, BLOCK25, GLAT, HEL-S-63p, IBD1, galactose mutarotase (aldose 1-epimerase), galactose mutarotase, GALAC4
External IDs	OMIM: 137030 MGI: 2442420 HomoloGene: 71795 GeneCards: GALM
Gene location (Human) Chr. Chromosome 2 (human)[1] Band 2p22.1 Start 38,666,081 bp[1] End 38,741,237 bp[1]
Gene location (Mouse) Chr. Chromosome 17 (mouse)[2] Band 17|17 E3 Start 80,434,900 bp[2] End 80,492,530 bp[2]
RNA expression pattern Bgee Top expressed in renal cortex kidney adrenal cortex duodenum More reference expression data BioGPS n/a
Gene ontology Molecular function isomerase activity aldose 1-epimerase activity carbohydrate binding catalytic activity Cellular component extracellular exosome cytoplasm Biological process hexose metabolic process glucose metabolic process galactose metabolic process galactose catabolic process via UDP-galactose carbohydrate metabolic process Sources:Amigo / QuickGO
Orthologs
Species	Human	Mouse
Entrez	130589	319625
Ensembl	ENSG00000143891	ENSMUSG00000035473
UniProt	Q96C23	Q8K157
RefSeq (mRNA)	NM_138801	NM_176963
RefSeq (protein)	NP_620156	NP_795937
Location (UCSC)	Chr 2: 38.67 – 38.74 Mb	Chr 17: 80.43 – 80.49 Mb
PubMed search	[3]	[4]
Wikidata
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Galactose mutarotase (aldose 1-epimerase) (gene name GALM) is a human enzyme that converts alpha-aldose to the beta-anomer. It belongs to family of aldose epimerases.

External links[]

• PDBe-KB provides an overview of all the structure information available in the PDB for Human Aldose 1-epimerase (Galactose mutarotase)

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