Description
Product Characteristics:
UGP2 (UDP glucose pyrophosphorylase 2) is an important intermediary in cellular metabolic pathways. It transfers a glucose moiety from glucose-1-phosphate to MgUTP and forms UDP glucose and MgPPi.
Subcellular location: Cytoplasm
Synonyms: UDP glucose diphosphorylase, UDP glucose pyrophosphorylase 2, UDP glucose pyrophosphorylase, UDPG, UDPGP 2, UDPGP, UDPGP2, UGP 1, UGP 2, UGP1, UGPase 2, UGPase, UGPP 2, UGPP2, Uridyl diphosphate glucose pyrophosphorylase 2, UTP glucose 1 phosphate uridyltransferase, UTP glucose 1 phosphate uridylyltransferase 2, pH C379, UGPA_HUMAN.
Target Information: The enzyme encoded by this gene is an important intermediary in mammalian carbohydrate interconversions. It transfers a glucose moiety from glucose-1-phosphate to MgUTP and forms UDP-glucose and MgPPi. In liver and muscle tissue, UDP-glucose is a direct precursor of glycogen\, in lactating mammary gland it is converted to UDP-galactose which is then converted to lactose. The eukaryotic enzyme has no significant sequence similarity to the prokaryotic enzyme. Two transcript variants encoding different isoforms have been found for this gene. [provided by RefSeq, Jul 2008]