. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Jun 22.

Published in final edited form as: Biochem J. 2012 Feb 1;441(3):789–802. doi: 10.1042/BJ20111626

Table 2.

Features of human CerS proteins

CerS	Number of amino acids^*	Predicted molecular mass (kDa)^†	Predicted number of transmembrane domains^*	Subcellular location	Notes
CerS1	350 (variant 1), 337 (variant 2)	39.5	6	ER/Golgi	–
CerS2	380	44.9	6	ER	–
CerS3	383	46.2	6	ER	–
CerS4	394	46.4	6	ER	–
CerS5	392	45.8	6	ER	–
CerS6	384	44.9	5	ER	Glycosylation at Asn¹⁸ (not necessary for activity)

Information obtained from UniProt (http://www.uniprot.org) [35,91].

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Prediction by ExPASY Proteomics server (http://www.expasy.ch/tools/pi_tool.html)