Seroatlas · Human Serome Atlas

B3GALT6

Beta-1,3-galactosyltransferase 6

Also known as: B3GT6_HUMAN, beta3GalT6

Cross-references: UniProt · Ensembl · Human Protein Atlas · GeneCards · NCBI Gene

Protein identityUniProt · HPA

UniProt accession
Q96L58
Gene
B3GALT6
Ensembl
ENSG00000176022
Chromosome
1
Canonical length
329 aa
Protein class
Disease related genes, Enzymes, Human disease related genes, Metabolic proteins, Potential drug targets, Predicted intracellular proteins

OverviewNCBI Gene

The enzyme encoded by this intronless gene is a beta-1,3-galactosyltransferase found in the medial Golgi apparatus, where it catalyzes the transfer of galactose from UDP-galactose to substrates containing a terminal beta-linked galactose moiety. The encoded enzyme has a particular affinity for galactose-beta-1,4-xylose found in the linker region of glycosamines. This enzyme is required for glycosaminoglycan synthesis. [provided by RefSeq, Jun 2013]

Canonical amino-acid sequenceUniProt

329 residues, UniProt reviewed canonical sequence.

>Q96L58|B3GALT6
     1  MKLLRRAWRR RAALGLGTLA LCGAALLYLA RCAAEPGDPR AMSGRSPPPP APARAAAFLA
    61  VLVASAPRAA ERRSVIRSTW LARRGAPGDV WARFAVGTAG LGAEERRALE REQARHGDLL
   121  LLPALRDAYE NLTAKVLAML AWLDEHVAFE FVLKADDDSF ARLDALLAEL RAREPARRRR
   181  LYWGFFSGRG RVKPGGRWRE AAWQLCDYYL PYALGGGYVL SADLVHYLRL SRDYLRAWHS
   241  EDVSLGAWLA PVDVQREHDP RFDTEYRSRG CSNQYLVTHK QSLEDMLEKH ATLAREGRLC
   301  KREVQLRLSY VYDWSAPPSQ CCQRREGIP

LocalizationUniProt · AlphaFold · HPA

Whether an antibody against B3GALT6 can act on the native protein depends on physical access: surface and secreted proteins are reachable by circulating antibodies, intracellular proteins usually are not.

Antibody reachability
Other membrane
Secreted
No
Transmembrane segments
1
Mean surface accessibility (rSASA)
0.3
Highest tissue expression
13 nTPM

Expression across tissuesHPA

Tissue

  • liver: 13 nTPM
  • hippocampal formation: 12 nTPM
  • cerebral cortex: 12 nTPM
  • amygdala: 12 nTPM
  • pancreas: 11 nTPM
  • hypothalamus: 11 nTPM

Single-cell type

  • alveolar cells type 1: 22 nCPM
  • fallopian secretory cells: 21 nCPM
  • breast myoepithelial cells: 20 nCPM
  • breast secretory cells: 19 nCPM
  • pancreatic duct cells: 18 nCPM
  • pancreatic islet cells: 18 nCPM

Immune cell

  • NK-cell: 2.9 nTPM
  • MAIT T-cell: 2.8 nTPM
  • naive B-cell: 2.3 nTPM
  • plasmacytoid DC: 2.3 nTPM
  • non-classical monocyte: 2 nTPM
  • memory CD8 T-cell: 1.9 nTPM

Brain region

  • medulla oblongata: 20 nTPM
  • hypothalamus: 19 nTPM
  • cerebral cortex: 18 nTPM
  • hippocampal formation: 18 nTPM
  • midbrain: 18 nTPM
  • white matter: 17 nTPM

DiseaseUniProt · ClinVar · IEDB · PubMed

Four sources answering four different questions about B3GALT6.

Disease | AllUniProt

Conditions B3GALT6 is implicated in, by any mechanism.

Disease | GeneticClinVar

37 pathogenic / likely-pathogenic of 413 ClinVar records.

Conditions with pathogenic or likely-pathogenic variants.

Genetic constraint and essentialitygnomAD · DepMap

Does the body need this protein intact? Low LOEUF or a strong DepMap dependency means loss or blockade of the protein is likely to be felt.

gnomAD LOEUF (loss-of-function intolerance)
1.43
gnomAD pLI
0.02
gnomAD missense Z
1.26
DepMap mean gene effect
-0.01
DepMap dependency class
selective

Cancer expressionTCGA

Across TCGA tumor cohorts, this protein is over-expressed in roughly 5% of surveyed tumor types (aggregate summary; per-cohort expression, alteration, and survival load in the interactive view).

OntologyGO

Biological processes

Molecular functions

Cellular components

Protein domainsUniProt · Pfam · InterPro

KeywordsUniProt

Antibody and autoantibody relevanceSeroatlas analysis

Seroatlas reads B3GALT6 as an antibody target. Whether an autoantibody or antibody against B3GALT6 could matter depends on whether native B3GALT6 is physically reachable, whether the body needs it intact, and whether it acts in a disease-relevant tissue.

B3GALT6 is annotated as predominantly intracellular. Intracellular proteins are common autoantibody markers, becoming visible to the immune system after cell injury or altered processing, but are usually markers of disease rather than direct drivers.

Annotation status

The present source text does not explicitly label B3GALT6 as an autoantigen. Seroatlas presents hypothesis context only and does not manufacture a known-serology claim.

Canonical record: https://seroatlas.com/gene/B3GALT6. Study-independent annotations aggregated from UniProt, Human Protein Atlas, PubMed, IEDB, Pfam, InterPro, Gene Ontology, AlphaFold, gnomAD, DepMap, ClinVar, TCGA. Catalog release seroatlas-reviewed-human-uniprot-20260313.

Seroatlas is the reference for exploring autoantibody and antibody serology at the human-protein level: the autoreactome and human serome, multiplex serology (HuProt, HuScan, VirScan, PhIP-Seq).

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