Publication Date:
1993-02-26
Description:
The glycosylphosphatidylinositol (GPI) anchor is a membrane attachment structure of many proteins and occurs in a wide variety of eukaryotes from yeasts to mammals. The structure of the core of the GPI anchor is conserved in protozoa and mammals and so is its biosynthetic pathway. A complementary DNA encoding a human protein termed PIG-A (phosphatidylinositol glycan-class A) was cloned. PIG-A was necessary for synthesis of N-acetylglucosaminyl-phosphatidylinositol, the very early intermediate in GPI-anchor biosynthesis.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Miyata, T -- Takeda, J -- Iida, Y -- Yamada, N -- Inoue, N -- Takahashi, M -- Maeda, K -- Kitani, T -- Kinoshita, T -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1993 Feb 26;259(5099):1318-20.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Immunoregulation, Osaka University, Japan.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7680492" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Amino Acid Sequence
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Animals
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Antigens, CD/metabolism
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Antigens, CD55
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Antigens, CD59
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Antigens, Surface/metabolism
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Antigens, Thy-1
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Cloning, Molecular
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DNA/genetics
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Genetic Complementation Test
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Glycosylphosphatidylinositols/*biosynthesis
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HeLa Cells
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Humans
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In Vitro Techniques
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Membrane Glycoproteins/metabolism
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Membrane Proteins/*genetics/metabolism
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Mice
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Molecular Sequence Data
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Solubility
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Species Specificity
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
