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Caenorhabditis elegans ortholog of a diabetes susceptibility locus: oga-1 (O-GlcNAcase) knockout impacts O-GlcNAc cycling, metabolism, and dauer.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 8 Aug 2006
Forsythe Michele E, Love Dona C, Lazarus Brooke D, Kim Eun Ju, Prinz William A, Ashwell Gilbert, Krause Michael W, Hanover John A
Abstract excerpt
A dynamic cycle of O-linked N-acetylglucosamine (O-GlcNAc) addition and removal acts on nuclear pore proteins, transcription factors, and kinases to modulate cellular signaling cascades. Two highly conserved enzymes (O-GlcNAc transferase and O-GlcNAcase) catalyze the final steps in this nutrient-driven "hexosamine-signaling pathway." A single nucleotide polymorphism in the human O-GlcNAcase gene is linked to type...
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