Glycosylinositol phospholipid (GPI) membrane anchors are the sole means of membrane attachment of a large number of cell surface proteins, including the variant surface glycoproteins (VSGs) of the parasitic protozoan, Trypanosoma brucei. Biosynthetic data suggest that GPI-anchored proteins are synthesized with carboxy-terminal extensions that are immediately replaced by GPI, suggesting the exis...

Glycosyl-phosphatidylinositol (GPI)- anchored proteins are preferentially transported to the apical cell surface of polarized Madin-Darby canine kidney (MDCK) cells. It has been assumed that the GPI anchor itself acts as an apical determinant by its interaction with sphingolipid-cholesterol rafts. We modified the rat growth hormone (rGH), an unglycosylated, unpolarized secreted protein, into a ...

Glycosylphosphatidylinositol-anchored proteins (GPI-APs) are a functionally and structurally diverse family of post-translationally modified membrane proteins found mostly in the outer leaflet of the plasma membrane in a variety of eukaryotic cells. Although the general role of GPI-APs remains unclear, they have attracted attention because they act as enzymes and receptors in cell adhesion, dif...

Telomere length has been linked to disease stage and degree of (pan-)cytopenia in patients with bone marrow failure syndromes. The aim of the current study was to analyze the impact of replicative stress on telomere length in residual glycosylphosphatidylinositol-positive (GPI+) versus GPI- hematopoiesis in patients with paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria (PNH). Peripheral blood granulocytes f...

Positioned at the C-terminus of many eukaryotic proteins, the glycosylphosphatidylinositol (GPI) anchor is a posttranslational modification that anchors the modified protein in the outer leaflet of the cell membrane. The GPI anchor is a complex structure comprising a phosphoethanolamine linker, glycan core, and phospholipid tail. GPI-anchored proteins are structurally and functionally diverse a...

Anchoring of proteins to membranes by glycosylphosphatidylinositols (GPIs) is ubiquitous among all eukaryotes and heavily used by parasitic protozoa. GPI is synthesized and transferred en bloc to form GPI-anchored proteins. The key enzyme in this process is a putative GPI:protein transamidase that would cleave a peptide bond near the COOH terminus of the protein and attach the GPI by an amide l...

The glycosylphosphatidylinositol (GPI) attachment is a most important post-translational modification of proteins that plays essential roles in promoting the biochemical activities of eukaryotic cells. Described here is an analysis of the amino acid properties of mammalian GPI-anchored proteins (GPI-APs) and the development of an innovative method of detecting them. GPI-APs are characterized by...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE We previously showed that treatment with a competitive N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor antagonist GPI-3000 (GPI) improved short-term physiological recovery after incomplete global cerebral ischemia complicated by dense acidosis. We tested the hypothesis that GPI administered after resuscitation from cardiac arrest would improve a more long-term recovery as measured b...

In this paper, the one-dimensional grey polynomial interpolation (1-D GPI) developed for image enlargement in [27] is applied to reduce the block effect in the block discrete cosine transform (BDCT) image/video coders. Note that the block effect in the BDCT coders results from insufficient bits for transform coefficients. An interpolation approach is proposed to relieve the block effect problem...