NCBI Accession #
NP_187310.1
NCBI GenBank Nucleotide #
NM_111534.4
NCBI Official Full Name
Mevalonate/galactokinase family protein
NCBI Official Symbol
GALK
NCBI Official Synonym Symbols
F5E6.9; F5E6_9; GAL1; GALACTOSE KINASE 1
NCBI Protein Information
Mevalonate/galactokinase family protein
NCBI Summary
Encodes a protein with galactose kinase activity. The gene was shown to complement the yeast #Ngal1 mutant defective in the galactokinase gene GAL1.
UniProt Synonym Gene Names
GALK
UniProt Protein Name
Galactokinase
UniProt Synonym Protein Names
Galactose kinase
UniProt Primary Accession #
Q9SEE5
UniProt Secondary Accession #
O24021; O48936
UniProt Related Accession #
Q9SEE5
UniProt Comments
Sugar-1-kinase with a very high substrate specificity for the alpha-anomeric configuration of D-galacose (D-Gal). Converts also efficiently 2-deoxy-D-Gal to 2-deoxy-D-al-1-phosphate.