NPL

N-acetylneuraminate pyruvate lyase

Summary

This gene encodes a member of the N-acetylneuraminate lyase sub-family of (beta/alpha)(8)-barrel enzymes. N-acetylneuraminate lyases regulate cellular concentrations of N-acetyl-neuraminic acid (sialic acid) by mediating the reversible conversion of sialic acid into N-acetylmannosamine and pyruvate. A pseudogene of this gene is located on the short arm of chromosome 2. Alternatively spliced transcript variants encoding multiple isoforms have been observed for this gene. [provided by RefSeq, Jan 2011]

Known Variants28 total

rsidPosition (GRCh37)AllelesClassClinVar
rs1437140821:182,761,047G/Aregulatory region variant—
rs12242856411:182,763,541T/C—uncertain significance
rs121426541:182,763,605A/Tintron variant—
rs769270131:182,765,885C/Tintron variant—
rs730653631:182,771,161T/Cregulatory region variant—
rs1931415451:182,772,897A/G—likely benign
rs16669224111:182,772,901T/G—uncertain significance
rs7764561141:182,775,302C/T—likely benign
rs168596791:182,775,637C/Tregulatory region variant—
rs1418922361:182,781,313G/A—likely benign
rs748445851:182,781,838C/Tintron variant—
rs1392050811:182,783,967C/T—uncertain significance
rs22751721:182,783,983A/G—benign
rs7470588391:182,785,884G/A—uncertain significance
rs1463553881:182,785,920C/Amissense variant—
rs7758395481:182,787,679G/A—uncertain significance
rs7660180331:182,787,711A/G—uncertain significance
rs25262375401:182,787,713G/T—uncertain significance
rs7642405681:182,787,769A/G—uncertain significance
rs583430161:182,787,797G/A—benign
rs1476272141:182,787,816G/A—uncertain significance
rs7657098991:182,791,264T/G—uncertain significance
rs25262518151:182,791,294C/T—uncertain significance
rs1158859411:182,791,341G/A—benign
rs787990571:182,794,123G/Aintron variant—
rs25262771831:182,797,889T/A—uncertain significance
rs5674913941:182,797,912A/G—uncertain significance
rs16677158131:182,798,751C/A—likely benign

Gene information from NCBI Gene. Variant classifications from ClinVar.