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NAT8L (NM_178557) - N-acetyltransferase 8 like

N-Acetylaspartate Synthetase

Mutations Visualisation
The Mutations Visualisation needle plot provides a visual summary of the location, frequency and functional significance of all known mutations in your protein of interest. The placement of the pins corresponds to the location along the protein’s sequence, while the mutation impact and PTM associated with it is explained in the figure legend.

- Height (y axis) represents the number of occurrences of the mutation
- Horizontal position (x axis) represents the position along your protein’s amino acid sequence
- Pinhead colour represents the mutation impact (figure legend)
- X axis colouring represents the type of PTM associated with the mutation location (figure legend)

Zooming in/out
Too zoom in/out of a specific amino acid sequence, you can either use the magnifying glass icons below the needle plot, or you can use your mouse scroll wheel while hovering over the needle plot. Furthermore, you can enter a specific amino acid sequence range in the search bar and hit “Go!”

Saving the image
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Tracks
While the x axis of the Mutations Visualization plot indicates the amino acid sequence location, additional positional details are visualized using the tracks found here:

- Sequence track: amino acid sequence of your protein of interest
- Disorder track: (Not sure about this myself)
- Domains track: proteins domains identified in the amino acid sequence
- Mutations track: the specific amino acid substitutions detected at the specific site

If there is a specific region of the amino acid sequence you are interested in, you can zoom onto it using the magnifying glass icons below the Mutations Visualization plot. Alternatively, you can zoom in and out by using your mouse scroll wheel while hovering over the needle plot.

Protein summary
The protein summary provides brief information regarding your protein, namely: its full name, a brief description of its function, and genomic location of the coding gene.

This is preferred isoform of NAT8L protein.
NAT8L: N-acetylaspartate synthetase
Description:

This gene encodes a single-pass membrane protein, which contains a conserved sequence of the GCN5 or NAT superfamily of N-acetyltransferases and is a member of the N-acyltransferase (NAT) superfamily. This protein is a neuron-specific protein and is the N-acetylaspartate (NAA) biosynthetic enzyme, catalyzing the NAA synthesis from L-aspartate and acetyl-CoA. NAA is a major storage and transport form of acetyl coenzyme A specific to the nervous system. The gene mutation results in primary NAA deficiency (hypoacetylaspartia). [provided by RefSeq, Dec 2010]. Sequence Note: This RefSeq record was created from transcript and genomic sequence data to make the sequence consistent with the reference genome assembly.

Publication Note:
This RefSeq record includes a subset of the publications that are available for this gene. Please see the Gene record to access additional publications.

Evidence data:
Transcript exon combination :: AK094797.1, BC103748.1 [ECO:0000332] RNAseq introns :: single sample supports all introns SAMEA1970526, SAMEA2142680 [ECO:0000348]

##RefSeq-Attributes-START## MANE Ensembl match :: ENST00000423729.3/ ENSP00000413064.2 RefSeq Select criteria :: based on single protein-coding transcript ##RefSeq-Attributes-END##

Strand
+
Chromosome
4
Protein
302 residues
All mutations
27
PTM sites
1
CDS
2,061,238 - 2,065,854
Transcription
2,061,238 - 2,070,816
14.9% of sequence is predicted to be disordered

External references
RefSeq, Entrez, Uniprot and Enzembl IDs related to your search query.

Mappings retrieved from NCBI & UniProt.
RefSeq
RefSeq IDs relevant to your search query.
Entrez
gene: 339983
UniProt
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