The enzyme, characterized from the archaeon Sulfolobus tokodaii, is also active toward D-glucosamine 6-phosphate (cf. EC 5.4.2.10, phosphoglucosamine mutase).
Dadashipour M, Iwamoto M, Hossain MM, Akutsu JI, Zhang Z, Kawarabayasi Y
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Identification of a Direct Biosynthetic Pathway for UDP-N-Acetylgalactosamine from Glucosamine-6-Phosphate in Thermophilic Crenarchaeon Sulfolobus tokodaii.