Glycosylphosphatidylinositol Anchors of Membrane Glycoproteins Are Binding Determinants for the Channel-forming Toxin Aerolysin
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Biosynthesis of glycosylphosphatidylinositol membrane anchors.
Covalent modification of proteins with phosphatidylinositol (PI) was first suggested as a novel mechanism of membrane attachment when it was found that PI-specific phospholipase C (PI-PLC) could release alkaline phosphatase from tissue slices [1-5]. Subsequent compositional analysis of Trypanosoma brucei variant surface glycoprotein (VSG) [6,7], Torpedo acetylcholinesterase [8], erythrocyte ace...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Biological Chemistry
سال: 1998
ISSN: 0021-9258
DOI: 10.1074/jbc.273.4.2355