Nans

NANS

Identifiers Symbols NANS; SAS External IDs OMIM: 605202 MGI: 2149820 HomoloGene: 10343 GeneCards: NANS Gene EC number 2.5.1.56, 2.5.1.57

Gene Ontology
Molecular function	• N-acylneuraminate cytidylyltransferase activity • N-acylneuraminate-9-phosphate synthase activity • N-acetylneuraminate synthase activity
Cellular component	• cytoplasm • cytosol
Biological process	• lipopolysaccharide biosynthetic process
Sources: Amigo / QuickGO

RNA expression pattern More reference expression data Orthologs Species Human Mouse Entrez 54187 94181 Ensembl ENSG00000095380 ENSMUSG00000028334 UniProt Q9NR45 Q99J77 RefSeq (mRNA) NM_018946 NM_053179 RefSeq (protein) NP_061819 NP_444409 Location (UCSC) Chr 9:
100.82 – 100.85 Mb Chr 4:
46.49 – 46.5 Mb PubMed search

Sialic acid synthase is an enzyme that in humans is encoded by the NANS gene.