fucosyltransferase-8; alpha-(1,6)-fucosyltransferase; glycoprotein 6-alpha-L-fucosyltransferase; GDP-fucose-glycoprotein fucosyltransferase; GDP-L-Fuc:N-acetyl-beta-D-glucosaminide alpha1,6-fucosyltransferase; alpha1-6FucT (FUT8)

Function

• catalyzes addition of fucose in alpha 1-6 linkage to 1st GlcNAc residue, next to the peptide chains in N-glycans
• glycosylation

Structure

• belongs to the glycosyltransferase 23 family
• contains 1 SH3 domain

Compartment

• Golgi apparatus, Golgi stack
• membrane-bound form in trans cisternae of Golgi

Alternative splicing

named isoforms=2

More general terms

• fucosyltransferase

Database

• OMIM: https://mirror.omim.org/entry/602589
• Entrez gene: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?db=gene&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=Graphics&list_uids=2530
• UniProt: http://www.uniprot.org/uniprot/Q9BYC5.html