TABLE 1

The ER retention sites predicted for UGT isoforms

IsoformMotif/Predicted PositionEvidenceReferences
UGT commonDMNucleotide sequenceIyanagi et al., 1986
Fusion protein with CD4/8Jackson et al., 1990;
Fusion protein with ErbB2Kinosaki et al., 1993
Fusion protein with CD4This study
UGT2B1Within 24-493Truncated mutantMeech et al., 1996
UGT1A6Within 141-240Fusion protein with GFPOuzzine et al., 1999
UGT1A(6)490-506 (TMD)Fusion proteins with CD4Barré et al., 2005
Deletion mutantsOuzzine et al., 2006
UGT1A(1)Within 26-434Splice variant i2Bellemare et al., 2010 Girard et al., 2007 Guillemette et al., 2014 Lévesque et al., 2007 Rouleau et al., 2014
UGT2B7Within 24-369Splice variant i4Ménard et al., 2013
UGT2B7Within 24-492Truncated mutantMiyauchi et al., 2015
UGT2B724-492 (ΔTM)Serial deletion mutantsThis study
24-252 (Δ1)
24-133 (Δ5)
253-492 (Δ7)
471-492 (Δ8-Δ11)
No obvious retention signal can be specified (Lack of a putative export signal)
  • TMD, TM domain.