Primary Identifier | MGI:96973 | Organism | mouse, laboratory |
Chromosome | 11 | NCBI Gene Number | 17308 |
Mgi Type | protein coding gene |
description | FUNCTION: Automated description from the Alliance of Genome Resources (Release 8.0.0) Enables acetylglucosaminyltransferase activity. Acts upstream of or within UDP-N-acetylglucosamine catabolic process and in utero embryonic development. Predicted to be located in Golgi membrane. Predicted to be active in Golgi apparatus. Is expressed in several structures, including decidua; early conceptus; embryo ectoderm; embryo endoderm; and retina outer nuclear layer. Orthologous to human MGAT1 (alpha-1,3-mannosyl-glycoprotein 2-beta-N-acetylglucosaminyltransferase). PHENOTYPE: Homozygotes for targeted null mutations develop a deficiency of complex N-glycans during embryogenesis, exhibit defects of neural tube formation, vascularization, and left-right body axis determination, and die by embryonic day 10.5. [provided by MGI curators] |