Glypican

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Contents 1 More Specific Terms 2 Structure 3 More General Terms 4 Internet Database 5 References

More Specific Terms

• 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)

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

More General Terms

• glypiated protein
• secreted protein

Internet Database

Prosite: [1]

References

1. OMIM  :accession 300037
2. prosite [2]

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