Post-translational modification: synthesis of GPI-anchored proteins

Summary
Organism
Homo sapiens (human)
Reactome
R-HSA-163125
PubChem
R-HSA-163125
Description
  • Glycosylphosphatidyl inositol (GPI) acts as a membrane anchor for many cell surface proteins. GPI is synthesized in the endoplasmic reticulum. In humans, a single pathway consisting of eleven reactions appears to be responsible for the synthesis of the major GPI species involved in membrane protein anchoring.

    As a nascent protein fated to become GPI-anchored moves into the lumen of the endoplasmic reticulum, it is attacked by a transamidase complex that cleaves it near its carboxy terminus and attaches an acylated GPI moiety. The GPI moiety is deacylated, yielding a protein-GPI conjugate that can be efficiently transported to the Golgi apparatus.

Click on a node on the pathway to see its details. Glycoproteins are marked with a glycoprotein icon in their name.
Displaying entries 31 - 40 of 62 in total
UniProt ID Protein Name Gene Symbol Pathway Viewer
Q16553 Lymphocyte antigen 6E
  • 9804
  • LY6E
  • RIGE
  • SCA2
  • TSA1
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Q17RY6 Lymphocyte antigen 6K
  • CO16
  • LY6K
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Q5BIV9 Shadow of prion protein
  • SHO
  • SPRN
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Q5VY80 UL16-binding protein 6
  • RAET1L
  • ULBP6
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Q6H3X3 UL-16 binding protein 5
  • RAET1G
  • ULBP5
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Q6UQ28 Placenta-expressed transcript 1 protein
  • C11orf34
  • PLET1
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Q6UWN0 Ly6/PLAUR domain-containing protein 4
  • LYPD4
  • UNQ2552/PRO6181
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Q6UWN5 Ly6/PLAUR domain-containing protein 5
  • LYPD5
  • UNQ1908/PRO4356
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Q6UX82 Ly6/PLAUR domain-containing protein 8
  • LYPD8
  • UNQ511/PRO1026
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Q6UXB3 Ly6/PLAUR domain-containing protein 2
  • LYPD2
  • LYPDC2
  • UNQ430/PRO788
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Supported by JST NBDC Grant Number JPMJND2204

Partly supported by NIH Common Fund Grant #1U01GM125267-01


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