Homo sapiens Gene: GALK2
Summary
InnateDB Gene IDBG-11402.6
Last Modified 2014-10-13 [Report errors or provide feedback]
Gene Symbol GALK2
Gene Name galactokinase 2
Synonyms GK2
Species Homo sapiens
Ensembl Gene ENSG00000156958
Encoded Proteins
galactokinase 2
galactokinase 2
galactokinase 2
galactokinase 2
galactokinase 2
galactokinase 2
galactokinase 2
galactokinase 2
galactokinase 2
galactokinase 2
galactokinase 2
galactokinase 2
galactokinase 2
galactokinase 2
galactokinase 2
galactokinase 2
galactokinase 2
galactokinase 2
galactokinase 2
Protein Structure
Useful resources Stemformatics EHFPI ImmGen
Entrez Gene
Summary This gene encodes a highly efficient N-acetylgalactosamine (GalNAc) kinase, which has galactokinase activity when galactose is present at high concentrations. Two alternatively spliced transcript variants encoding different isoforms have been found for this gene. [provided by RefSeq, Jul 2008]
This gene encodes a highly efficient N-acetylgalactosamine (GalNAc) kinase, which has galactokinase activity when galactose is present at high concentrations. Alternatively spliced transcript variants encoding different isoforms have been found for this gene. [provided by RefSeq, Jan 2014]
Gene Information
Type Protein coding
Genomic Location Chromosome 15:49155656-49367869
Strand Forward strand
Band q21.1
Transcripts
ENST00000327171 ENSP00000316632
ENST00000396509 ENSP00000379766
ENST00000559883 ENSP00000453193
ENST00000559963 ENSP00000453457
ENST00000560654 ENSP00000453961
ENST00000558775 ENSP00000453849
ENST00000561074 ENSP00000453241
ENST00000559040
ENST00000560031 ENSP00000453129
ENST00000558956 ENSP00000452679
ENST00000559208 ENSP00000453844
ENST00000559095
ENST00000558145 ENSP00000454123
ENST00000560119 ENSP00000453909
ENST00000544523 ENSP00000440312
ENST00000560138 ENSP00000452614
ENST00000559423 ENSP00000453652
ENST00000559454 ENSP00000453133
ENST00000561014
ENST00000558399 ENSP00000453252
ENST00000559580 ENSP00000453257
ENST00000560528 ENSP00000452637
Interactions
Number of Interactions This gene and/or its encoded proteins are associated with 1 experimentally validated interaction(s) in this database.
Experimentally validated
Total 1 [view]
Protein-Protein 1 [view]
Protein-DNA 0
Protein-RNA 0
DNA-DNA 0
RNA-RNA 0
DNA-RNA 0
Gene Ontology

Molecular Function
Accession GO Term
GO:0004335 galactokinase activity
GO:0005524 ATP binding
GO:0033858 N-acetylgalactosamine kinase activity
Biological Process
GO:0005975 carbohydrate metabolic process
GO:0006012 galactose metabolic process
GO:0046835 carbohydrate phosphorylation
Cellular Component
GO:0005737 cytoplasm
Orthologs
Species
Mus musculus
Bos taurus
Gene ID
Gene Order
Not yet available
Pathways
NETPATH
REACTOME
KEGG
Galactose metabolism pathway
Amino sugar and nucleotide sugar metabolism pathway
INOH
Galactose metabolism pathway
PID NCI
Cross-References
SwissProt
TrEMBL
UniProt Splice Variant
Entrez Gene
UniGene Hs.122006 Hs.738080
RefSeq NM_001001556 NM_001289030 NM_001289031 NM_002044 XM_006720464
HUGO
OMIM
CCDS CCDS32236 CCDS42034 CCDS73724
HPRD 00657
IMGT
EMBL
GenPept
RNA Seq Atlas