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Homo sapiens Gene: GALK1
Summary
InnateDB Gene IDBG-68888.6
Last Modified 2014-10-13 [Report errors or provide feedback]
Gene Symbol GALK1
Gene Name galactokinase 1
Synonyms GALK; GK1; HEL-S-19
Species Homo sapiens
Ensembl Gene ENSG00000108479
Encoded Proteins
IDBP-68890
galactokinase 1
IDBP-762219
IDBP-760066
IDBP-763016
IDBP-760526
Protein Structure
Useful resources Stemformatics EHFPI ImmGen
Entrez Gene
Summary Galactokinase is a major enzyme for the metabolism of galactose and its deficiency causes congenital cataracts during infancy and presenile cataracts in the adult population. [provided by RefSeq, Jul 2008]
Gene Information
Type Protein coding
Genomic Location Chromosome 17:75751594-75765711
Strand Reverse strand
Band q25.1
Transcripts
ENST00000225614 ENSP00000225614
ENST00000586244 ENSP00000468288
ENST00000592997 ENSP00000464765
ENST00000587707 ENSP00000468341
ENST00000589030
ENST00000592494
ENST00000588479 ENSP00000465930
ENST00000586733
ENST00000589643
Interactions
Number of Interactions This gene and/or its encoded proteins are associated with 15 experimentally validated interaction(s) in this database.
They are also associated with 2 interaction(s) predicted by orthology.
Experimentally validated
Total 15 [view]
Protein-Protein 15 [view]
Protein-DNA 0
Protein-RNA 0
DNA-DNA 0
RNA-RNA 0
DNA-RNA 0
Predicted by orthology
Total 2 [view]
Gene Ontology

Molecular Function
Accession GO Term
GO:0004335 galactokinase activity
GO:0005515 protein binding
GO:0005524 ATP binding
GO:0005534 galactose binding
Biological Process
GO:0005975 carbohydrate metabolic process
GO:0006012 galactose metabolic process
GO:0019388 galactose catabolic process
GO:0019402 galactitol metabolic process
GO:0044281 small molecule metabolic process
GO:0046835 carbohydrate phosphorylation
Cellular Component
GO:0005737 cytoplasm
GO:0005829 cytosol
GO:0016020 membrane
GO:0070062 extracellular vesicular exosome
Orthologs
Species
Mus musculus
Bos taurus
Gene ID
Gene Order
ENSMUSG00000020766
View Gene Order
ENSBTAG00000014964
Not yet available
Pathways
NETPATH
REACTOME
REACT_532
Galactose catabolism pathway
REACT_200783
Myoclonic epilepsy of Lafora pathway
REACT_474
Metabolism of carbohydrates pathway
REACT_111217
Metabolism pathway
REACT_116125
Disease pathway
REACT_200833
Glycogen storage diseases pathway
KEGG
hsa00052
Galactose metabolism pathway
hsa00520
Amino sugar and nucleotide sugar metabolism pathway
INOH
INOH website
Galactose metabolism pathway
PID NCI
Cross-References
SwissProt
TrEMBL K7ERJ9
UniProt Splice Variant
Entrez Gene 2584
UniGene Hs.407966
RefSeq NM_000154
HUGO HGNC:4118
OMIM 604313
CCDS CCDS11728
HPRD 05057
IMGT
EMBL AC087749
GenPept
RNA Seq Atlas 2584

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Breuer et al., InnateDB: systems biology of innate immunity and beyond - recent updates and continuing curation. Nucl. Acids Res. (2013) 41 (D1) 

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