The glycosylphosphatidylinositol anchor: A complex membrane-anchoring structure for proteins

Biochemistry

Volumn 47, Issue 27, 2008, Pages 6991-7000

  Paulick, Margot G ^a   Bertozzi, Carolyn R ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANCHORS; BIOMOLECULES; LIPIDS; PHOSPHOLIPIDS; PROTEINS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY (ACS); APICAL MEMBRANES; BIOLOGICAL FUNCTIONS; BIOLOGICAL PROCESSING; C TERMINUS; CELLULAR FUNCTIONS; CHEMICALLY SYNTHESIZED; COMPLEX MEMBRANE; COMPLEX STRUCTURES; EUKARYOTIC PROTEINS; GLYCOSYLPHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL (GPI) ANCHOR; LIPID RAFTS; MOLECULAR LEVELS; PHOSPHOETHANOLAMINE; POSTTRANSLATIONAL MODIFICATION (PTM); PRION DISEASES; STRUCTURAL DIVERSITY;

CELL MEMBRANES;

GLYCOSYLPHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL; PHOSPHOETHANOLAMINE;

APICAL MEMBRANE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CELL FUNCTION; CELL MEMBRANE; LIPID RAFT; NONHUMAN; PRION DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ACETYLCHOLINESTERASE; ERYTHROCYTES; GLYCOSYLPHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOLS; HUMANS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PEPTIDES;

EUKARYOTA;

EID: 46849102138     PISSN: 00062960     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bi8006324     Document Type: Review

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