Glycosylphosphatidylinositol-anchored glycoproteins

A. S. Couto, R. M. de Lederkremer, W. Colli, and M. J. M. Alves, The glycosylphosphatidylinositol anchor of the trypomastigote specific Tc 85 glycoprotein from Trypanosoma cruzi. Metabolic labeling and structural studies, Eur. J. Biochem., 217 (1993) 597-602. 

S. Schenkman, M. A. J. Ferguson, N. Heise, M. L. de Almeida, R. A. Mortara, andN. Yoshida, Mucinlike glycoproteins linked to the membrane by glycosylphosphatidylinositol anchor are the major acceptors of sialic acid in a reaction catalyzed by trans-sialidase in metacyclic forms of Trypanosoma cruzi, Mol. Biochem. Parasitol., 59 (1993) 293-303. 

W. J. Masterson, T. L. Doering, G. W. Hart P. T. Englund. A novel pathway for glycan assembly biosynthesis of the glycosylphosphatidylinositol anchor of the trypanosome variant surface glycoprotein. Cell, 1989, 56, 793-800. 

M. C. Field, A. K. Menon G. A. Cross. Developmental variation of glycosylphosphatidylinositol membrane anchors in Trypanosoma brucei. Identification of a candidate biosynthetic precursor of the glycosylphosphatidylinositol anchor of the major procyclic stage surface glycoprotein. J Biol Chem, 1991, 266, 8392-8400. 

Nelson, K.L., Raja, S.M. and Buckley, J.T. (1997) The glycosylphosphatidylinositol-anchored surface glycoprotein Thy-1 is a receptor for the channel-forming toxin aerolysin. J. Biol Chem. 272, 12170-12174. 

The core structures of glycosylphosphatidylinositol (GPI) anchors and the GPI anchoring of proteins and glycoproteins onto cell surfaces... 

J. O. Previato, C. Jones, L. P. B. Gonsalves, R. Wait, L. R. Travassos, A. J. Parodi, and L. Vlendonga-Previato, Structural characterization of the major glycosylphosphatidylinositol membrane-anchored glycoprotein from epimastigote forms of Trypanosoma cruzi Y-strain, J. Biol. Chem., 270 (1995) 7241-7250. 

Previato JO, Jones C, Xavier MT et al. Structural characterization of the major glycosylphosphatidylinositol membrane-anchored glycoprotein from epimastigote forms of Trypanosoma cruzi Y-strain. J Biol Chem 1995 270 7241-7250. 

S. W. Homans, C. J. Edge, M. A. Ferguson, R. A. Dwek T. W. Rademacher. Solution structure of the glycosylphosphatidylinositol membrane anchor glycan of Trypanosoma brucei variant surface glycoprotein. Biochemistry, 1989, 28, 2881-2887. 

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