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The chemical reactions and pathways involving phosphoinositides, any of a class of glycerophospholipids in which the phosphatidyl group is esterified to the hydroxyl group of inositol. They are important constituents of cell membranes. null The chemical reactions and pathways involving glycosylphosphatidylinositol anchors, molecular mechanisms for attaching membrane proteins to the lipid bilayer of cell membranes. Structurally they consist of a molecule of phosphatidylinositol to which is linked, via the C-6 hydroxyl of the inositol, a carbohydrate chain. This chain is in turn linked to the protein through an ethanolamine phosphate moiety, the amino group of which is in amide linkage with the C-terminal carboxyl of the protein chain, the phosphate group being esterified to the C-6 hydroxyl of the terminal mannose of the core carbohydrate chain.

View Gene Ontology (GO) Term

GO TERM SUMMARY
Name: GPI anchor release
Acc: GO:0006507
Aspect: Biological Process
Desc:
Proteins in PDR annotated with:
   This term: 4 [Search]
   Term or descendants: 4 [Search]


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INTERACTIVE GO GRAPH

GO:0006507 - GPI anchor release (interactive image map)
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