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SULT4A1
Introduction
Sulfotransferase 4A1 is an enzyme that in humans is encoded by the SULT4A1 gene.[1][2]
This gene encodes a member of the sulfotransferase family. The encoded protein is a brain-specific sulfotransferase believed to be involved in the metabolism of neurotransmitters. Polymorphisms in this gene may be associated with susceptibility to schizophrenia.[2]
References
References
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- ↑ 2.0 2.1 “Entrez Gene: SULT4A1 sulfotransferase family 4A, member 1”.
Further reading
Further reading
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- Glatt H (2001). “Sulfotransferases in the bioactivation of xenobiotics”. Chem. Biol. Interact. 129 (1–2): 141–70. doi:10.1016/S0009-2797(00)00202-7. PMID 11154739.
- Glatt H, Boeing H, Engelke CE, et al. (2001). “Human cytosolic sulphotransferases: genetics, characteristics, toxicological aspects”. Mutat. Res. 482 (1–2): 27–40. doi:10.1016/S0027-5107(01)00207-X. PMID 11535246.
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- Sakakibara Y, Suiko M, Pai TG, et al. (2002). “Highly conserved mouse and human brain sulfotransferases: molecular cloning, expression, and functional characterization”. Gene. 285 (1–2): 39–47. doi:10.1016/S0378-1119(02)00431-6. PMID 12039030.
- Strausberg RL, Feingold EA, Grouse LH, et al. (2003). “Generation and initial analysis of more than 15,000 full-length human and mouse cDNA sequences”. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 99 (26): 16899–903. doi:10.1073/pnas.242603899. PMC 139241. PMID 12477932.
- Collins JE, Goward ME, Cole CG, et al. (2003). “Reevaluating human gene annotation: a second-generation analysis of chromosome 22”. Genome Res. 13 (1): 27–36. doi:10.1101/gr.695703. PMC 430954. PMID 12529303.
- Liyou NE, Buller KM, Tresillian MJ, et al. (2004). “Localization of a brain sulfotransferase, SULT4A1, in the human and rat brain: an immunohistochemical study”. J. Histochem. Cytochem. 51 (12): 1655–64. doi:10.1177/002215540305101209. PMID 14623933.
- Ota T, Suzuki Y, Nishikawa T, et al. (2004). “Complete sequencing and characterization of 21,243 full-length human cDNAs”. Nat. Genet. 36 (1): 40–5. doi:10.1038/ng1285. PMID 14702039.
- Collins JE, Wright CL, Edwards CA, et al. (2005). “A genome annotation-driven approach to cloning the human ORFeome”. Genome Biol. 5 (10): R84. doi:10.1186/gb-2004-5-10-r84. PMCÂ 545604. PMIDÂ 15461802.
- Gerhard DS, Wagner L, Feingold EA, et al. (2004). “The status, quality, and expansion of the NIH full-length cDNA project: the Mammalian Gene Collection (MGC)”. Genome Res. 14 (10B): 2121–7. doi:10.1101/gr.2596504. PMC 528928. PMID 15489334.
- Brennan MD, Condra J (2006). “Transmission disequilibrium suggests a role for the sulfotransferase-4A1 gene in schizophrenia”. Am. J. Med. Genet. B Neuropsychiatr. Genet. 139 (1): 69–72. doi:10.1002/ajmg.b.30222. PMID 16152568.
- Allali-Hassani A, Pan PW, Dombrovski L, et al. (2007). “Structural and chemical profiling of the human cytosolic sulfotransferases”. PLoS Biol. 5 (5): e97. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0050097. PMCÂ 1847840. PMIDÂ 17425406.