phosphoglucomutase-3 (phosphoacetylglucosamine mutase, PAGM, acetylglucosamine, N-acetylglucosamine-phosphate mutase, PGM3, AGM1)

Function

• UDP-GlcNAc biosynthesis from Fru-6-phosphate, 3rd step

Cofactor: binds 1 Mg+2 per subunit

Alternative splicing

named isoforms=2

Expression

• found in many tissues except lung.
• expressed in pancreas, heart, liver, placenta > brain, skeletal muscle, kidney
• not expressed in lung

More general terms

• phosphoglucomutase or glucose phosphomutase

Database

• OMIM: https://mirror.omim.org/entry/172100
• Entrez gene: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?db=gene&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=Graphics&list_uids=5238
• UniProt: http://www.uniprot.org/uniprot/O95394.html