Heparan sulfate (HS) 2 proteoglycans play important roles in various biological processes by acting as co-receptors, by serving as reservoir molecules in morphogen gradient formation etc. (1-5). The sulfation domains (S domains) of HS are the binding sites for the growth factors and morphogens. Analyses of fruit fly, zebrafish, and mice mutants have revealed that the specific patterns of the sulfations determine the bioactivities of the HS proteoglycans (6 -10). In particular, 6-O-sulfation of HS has been shown to be required for the fibroblast growth factor (FGF) and Wnt signaling pathways in Drosophila and zebrafish (11,12). With regard to the link between 6-O-sulfation of HS and the FGF signaling pathway, heparan sulfate 6-O-sulfotransferase (HS6ST) RNA interference experiments in fruit fly have demonstrated that the interfered phenotype closely resembles those of mutants that are defective in FGF signaling components (11). In addition, by subjecting a sulfated octasaccharide library to an affinity chromatographic assay, have shown that the 6-O-sulfation of HS is important for binding activities of FGF-10, -4, and -7. With regard to the link between HS 6-O-sulfation and the Wnt signaling pathway, the knockdown of HS6ST in zebrafish with morpholino antisense oligonucleotides results in perturbed muscle differentiation that is associated with higher expression of the Wnt target genes myoD and eng2. QSulf1, the avian heparan sulfate 6-O-endosulfatases, is required for the activation of MyoD, which is a Wnt-induced regulator of muscle specification (14). Thus, the 6-O sulfation of HS plays important roles in regulating HS-binding growth factor signaling and morphogen gradient formation.Three isoforms of HS6STs have been identified in mice and humans (15-18). The expression patterns of these isoforms are regulated in spatially and temporally different manners. Their substrate specificities also differ (16, 17), since HS6ST1 preferentially catalyzes the sulfation of the L-iduronic acid (IdoA)-GlcNS disaccharide unit, whereas HS6ST2 prefers the D-glucuronic acid (GlcA)-GlcNS and IdoA(2S)-GlcNS disaccharides, and HS6ST3 has intermediate substrate specificity between *