SPT14/YPL175W Summary 
| Standard Name | SPT14 |
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| Systematic Name | YPL175W |
| Alias | CWH6 , GPI3 1 |
| Feature Type | ORF, Verified |
| Description | UDP-GlcNAc-binding and catalytic subunit of the enzyme that mediates the first step in glycosylphosphatidylinositol (GPI) biosynthesis, mutations cause defects in transcription and in biogenesis of cell wall proteins (2, 3 and see Summary Paragraph) |
| Name Description | SuPpressor of Ty 4 |
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| Genetic position: -113 cM |
Gene Ontology Annotations All SPT14 GO evidence and references
| View Computational GO annotations for SPT14 | |
| Molecular Function | |
| Manually curated | |
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| Manually curated |
Mutant phenotypes All SPT14 Phenotype evidence and references
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| unspecified | |
| Large-scale survey | |
| null | |
| reduction of function | |
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interactions All SPT14 Interaction evidence and references
| 23 total interaction(s) for 22 unique genes/features. | |
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Expression Summary
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Protein Information All SPT14 Protein evidence and references
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| Phosphorylation | PhosphoGRID | PhosphoPep Database |
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sequence information
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| Last Update | Coordinates: 2011-02-03 | Sequence: 2000-07-14 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Resources
| External Links | All Associated Seq | E.C. | Entrez Gene | Entrez RefSeq Protein | MIPS | Search all NCBI (Entrez) | UniProtKB |
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| Primary SGDID | S000006096 |
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SUMMARY PARAGRAPH for SPT14
SPT14 is one member of a large class of SPT genes, which were named for their ability to suppress the phenotypes resulting from Ty insertions that disrupted transcription of nearby genes (4, 5). The role Spt14p plays in transcription is likely an indirect one, as it has been found to encode a glycosyl transferase that transfers N-acetylglucosamine from UDP-N-acetylglucosamine to phosphatidyl inositol, the first step of glycosyl phosphatidyl inositol (GPI) biosynthesis (6, 7). This reaction requires the action of at least three gene products in yeast (Gpi1p, Gpi2p, and Spt14p) and human (PIG-C, PIG-H, and PIG-A) (6, 1). Spt14p shows high similarity to the human PIG-A protein, mutations in which are responsible for the disease paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria (7, 8, 9). Because GPI acts as a membrane anchor for many proteins, spt14 mutants have defects in GPI anchoring, and in the release of cell wall proteins from the endoplasmic reticulum (7, 10).
Last updated: 2000-03-10 
References cited on this page View Complete Literature Guide for SPT14
| 1) | Leidich SD, et al. (1995) Temperature-sensitive yeast GPI anchoring mutants gpi2 and gpi3 are defective in the synthesis of N-acetylglucosaminyl phosphatidylinositol. Cloning of the GPI2 gene. J Biol Chem 270(22):13029-35 |
| 2) | Vossen JH, et al. (1995) Identification of SPT14/CWH6 as the yeast homologue of hPIG-A, a gene involved in the biosynthesis of GPI anchors. Biochim Biophys Acta 1243(3):549-51 |
| 3) | Kostova Z, et al. (2000) Photoaffinity labelling with P3-(4-azidoanilido)uridine 5'-triphosphate identifies gpi3p as the UDP-GlcNAc-binding subunit of the enzyme that catalyses formation of GlcNAc-phosphatidylinositol, the first glycolipid intermediate in glycosylphosphatidylinositol synthesis. Biochem J 350 Pt 3():815-22 |
| 4) | Fassler JS and Winston F (1988) Isolation and analysis of a novel class of suppressor of Ty insertion mutations in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Genetics 118(2):203-12 |
| 5) | Winston F and Sudarsanam P (1998) The SAGA of Spt proteins and transcriptional analysis in yeast: past, present, and future. Cold Spring Harb Symp Quant Biol 63:553-61 |
| 6) | Inoue N, et al. (1996) PIG-C, one of the three human genes involved in the first step of glycosylphosphatidylinositol biosynthesis is a homologue of Saccharomyces cerevisiae GPI2. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 226(1):193-9 |
| 7) | Schonbachler M, et al. (1995) The yeast spt14 gene is homologous to the human PIG-A gene and is required for GPI anchor synthesis. EMBO J 14(8):1637-45 |
| 8) | Kawagoe K, et al. (1994) Molecular cloning of murine pig-a, a gene for GPI-anchor biosynthesis, and demonstration of interspecies conservation of its structure, function, and genetic locus. Genomics 23(3):566-74 |
| 9) | Bessler M, et al. (1994) Genomic organization of the X-linked gene (PIG-A) that is mutated in paroxysmal nocturnal haemoglobinuria and of a related autosomal pseudogene mapped to 12q21. Hum Mol Genet 3(5):751-7 |
| 10) | Vossen JH, et al. (1997) Restrictive glycosylphosphatidylinositol anchor synthesis in cwh6/gpi3 yeast cells causes aberrant biogenesis of cell wall proteins. J Bacteriol 179(7):2202-9 |
