Patent ID: 6939698

Claim:
An isolated nucleic acid molecule or a complement thereof selected from the group a) a nucleic acid molecule which encodes a polypeptide comprising an amino acid sequence with at least 95% identity to the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO:2, wherein said polypeptide has a glycosyltransferase activity; b) a nucleic acid molecule which encodes a polypeptide consisting of fragment of SEQ ID NO:2, wherein the fragment comprises at least 285 contiguous amino acids of SEQ ID NO: 2, wherein said at least 285 contiguous amino acids comprise the glycosyltransferase domain of 33945 (amino acids 139 to 322 of SEQ ID NO:2), and the fragment has a glycosyltransferase activity; and c) a nucleic acid molecule which encodes a naturally occurring allelic variant of a polypeptide comprising the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO:2, wherein the nucleic acid molecule hybridizes to a nucleic acid molecule comprising SEQ ID NO: 1, 3, or a complement thereof, under hybridization conditions of 0.5 M sodium phosphate, 7% SDS at 65° C., followed by one or more washes at 0.2×SSC, 1% SDS at 65° C., wherein said nucleic acid molecule encodes a polypeptide having a glycosyltransferase activity.