MGAT3
Beta-1,4-mannosyl-glycoprotein 4-beta-N-acetylglucosaminyltransferase
Also known as: GNT-III, MGAT3_HUMAN
Cross-references: UniProt · Ensembl · Human Protein Atlas · GeneCards · NCBI Gene
Protein identityUniProt · HPA
- UniProt accession
- Q09327
- Gene
- MGAT3
- Ensembl
- ENSG00000128268
- Chromosome
- 22
- Canonical length
- 533 aa
- Protein class
- Enzymes, Metabolic proteins, Predicted intracellular proteins
OverviewNCBI Gene
There are believed to be over 100 different glycosyltransferases involved in the synthesis of protein-bound and lipid-bound oligosaccharides. The enzyme encoded by this gene transfers a GlcNAc residue to the beta-linked mannose of the trimannosyl core of N-linked oligosaccharides and produces a bisecting GlcNAc. Multiple alternatively spliced variants, encoding the same protein, have been identified. [provided by RefSeq, Jul 2008]
Canonical amino-acid sequenceUniProt
533 residues, UniProt reviewed canonical sequence.
>Q09327|MGAT3
1 MKMRRYKLFL MFCMAGLCLI SFLHFFKTLS YVTFPRELAS LSPNLVSSFF WNNAPVTPQA
61 SPEPGGPDLL RTPLYSHSPL LQPLPPSKAA EELHRVDLVL PEDTTEYFVR TKAGGVCFKP
121 GTKMLERPPP GRPEEKPEGA NGSSARRPPR YLLSARERTG GRGARRKWVE CVCLPGWHGP
181 SCGVPTVVQY SNLPTKERLV PREVPRRVIN AINVNHEFDL LDVRFHELGD VVDAFVVCES
241 NFTAYGEPRP LKFREMLTNG TFEYIRHKVL YVFLDHFPPG GRQDGWIADD YLRTFLTQDG
301 VSRLRNLRPD DVFIIDDADE IPARDGVLFL KLYDGWTEPF AFHMRKSLYG FFWKQPGTLE
361 VVSGCTVDML QAVYGLDGIR LRRRQYYTMP NFRQYENRTG HILVQWSLGS PLHFAGWHCS
421 WCFTPEGIYF KLVSAQNGDF PRWGDYEDKR DLNYIRGLIR TGGWFDGTQQ EYPPADPSEH
481 MYAPKYLLKN YDRFHYLLDN PYQEPRSTAA GGWRHRGPEG RPPARGKLDE AEVLocalizationUniProt · AlphaFold · HPA
Whether an antibody against MGAT3 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)
- 0.36
- Highest tissue expression
- 41 nTPM
Expression across tissuesHPA
Tissue
- cerebellum: 41 nTPM
- cerebral cortex: 35 nTPM
- small intestine: 27 nTPM
- hippocampal formation: 26 nTPM
- basal ganglia: 25 nTPM
- amygdala: 24 nTPM
Single-cell type
- enterocytes: 94 nCPM
- retinal bipolar cells: 63 nCPM
- retinal amacrine cells: 53 nCPM
- retinal horizontal cells: 52 nCPM
- oligodendrocytes: 51 nCPM
- erythrocyte progenitors: 48 nCPM
Immune cell
- basophil: 1.4 nTPM
- eosinophil: 1.1 nTPM
- memory B-cell: 0.5 nTPM
- naive B-cell: 0.3 nTPM
- neutrophil: 0.2 nTPM
- classical monocyte: 0 nTPM
Brain region
- cerebral cortex: 173 nTPM
- hippocampal formation: 139 nTPM
- medulla oblongata: 134 nTPM
- amygdala: 133 nTPM
- white matter: 130 nTPM
- thalamus: 126 nTPM
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)
- 0.63
- gnomAD pLI
- 0.15
- gnomAD missense Z
- 3.13
- DepMap mean gene effect
- -0.03
- DepMap dependency class
- none
Cancer expressionTCGA
Across TCGA tumor cohorts, this protein is over-expressed in roughly 4% of surveyed tumor types (aggregate summary; per-cohort expression, alteration, and survival load in the interactive view).
OntologyGO
Biological processes
- amyloid-beta metabolic process
- cellular response to oxidative stress
- cognition
- intracellular protein localization
- N-acetylglucosamine metabolic process
- negative regulation of lysosomal protein catabolic process
- positive regulation of protein localization to early endosome
- protein N-linked glycosylation
- regulation of cell migration
Molecular functions
- glycosyltransferase activity
- beta-1,4-mannosylglycoprotein 4-beta-N-acetylglucosaminyltransferase activity
Cellular components
Protein domainsUniProt · Pfam · InterPro
- Glycosyl transferase, family 17
- Glycosyltransferase family 17
KeywordsUniProt
InteractionsUniProt · HPA
Protein binding partners of MGAT3 in the human serome: UniProt-annotated complex subunits plus reported interactors. Each links to its own Seroatlas record.
Antibody and autoantibody relevanceSeroatlas analysis
Seroatlas reads MGAT3 as an antibody target. Whether an autoantibody or antibody against MGAT3 could matter depends on whether native MGAT3 is physically reachable, whether the body needs it intact, and whether it acts in a disease-relevant tissue.
MGAT3 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 MGAT3 as an autoantigen. Seroatlas presents hypothesis context only and does not manufacture a known-serology claim.
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