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glypican

Structure: - glypicans & syndecans are two major families of cell-surface proteoglycans - glypicans (GRIPS) are anchored by glycosyl-phosphatidylinositol (GPI) linkage - syndecans (SLIPS) have highly conserved transmembrane regions & short cytoplasmic tails

Specific

glypican-1 (GPC1) glypican-2; cerebroglycan (GPC2) glypican-3; intestinal protein OCI-5; GTR2-2; MXR7; (GPC3, OCI5) glypican-4; K-glypican (GPC4) Glypican-5; contains: secreted glypican-5 (GPC5) glypican-6 (GPC6)

General

glypiated protein secreted protein

Properties

COMPARTMENT: plasma membrane CELL-REGION: apical region CELL: epithelial cell MOTIF: glycosyl phosphatidylinositol [GPI] membrane anchor {C-TERMINUS}

References

  1. OMIM :accession 300037
  2. prosite :accession PS01207