Term Information

Accession
GO:0015572
Name
N-acetylglucosamine transmembrane transporter activity
Ontology
molecular_function
Synonyms
D-GlcNAc transmembrane transporter activity, N-acetyl-D-glucosamine transmembrane transporter activity, N-acetylchitosamine transmembrane transporter activity, N-Acetyl-D-glucosamine permease, N-acetylglucosamine permease activity
Alternate IDs
GO:0015580
Definition
Enables the transfer of N-acetylglucosamine from one side of a membrane to the other. The D isomer of N-acetylglucosamine is a common structural unit of glycoproteins in plants, bacteria and animals; it is often the terminal sugar of an oligosaccharide group of a glycoprotein. Source: GOC:mtg_transport, ISBN:0815340729, GOC:ai
Comment
None
History
See term history for GO:0015572 at QuickGO
Subset
None
Feedback
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Parents of N-acetylglucosamine transmembrane transporter activity (GO:0015572)
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N-acetylglucosamine transmembrane transporter activity [is_a relation] is_a  carbohydrate derivative transmembrane transporter activity (GO:1901505)
Children of N-acetylglucosamine transmembrane transporter activity (GO:0015572)
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protein-N(PI)-phosphohistidine-N-acetylglucosamine phosphotransferase system transporter activity (GO:0022880) [is_a relation] is_a  N-acetylglucosamine transmembrane transporter activity
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