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st3gal8

This is the community wiki page for the gene st3gal8 please feel free to add any information that is relevant to this gene that is not already captured elsewhere in Xenbase

nomenclature changes

3/21/2022

the gene symbol and gene name changed from ST3 beta-galactoside alpha-2,3-sialyltransferase 2, gene 2,  st3gal2.2 to ST3 beta-galactoside alpha-2,3-sialyltransferase 8,   st3gal8 following review by HGNC. 

This ST3 sialyltransferase gene is the ortholog of st3gal8 in zebrafish; it also has conserved synteny with. zebrafish st3gal8, with the flanking fer1l4 genes. Our specialist advisor for the sialyltransferases, Prof. Anne Harduin-Lepers, has also looked at this (and published on it in https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4379398/ and https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5000683/) and agrees it. should be assigned as st3gal8