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The affected gene underlying the class K glycosylphosphatidylinositol (GPI) surface protein defect codes for the GPI transamidase.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 11 Nov 1997
Yu J, Nagarajan S, Knez J J, Udenfriend S, Chen R, Medof M E
Abstract excerpt
The final step in glycosylphosphatidylinositol (GPI) anchoring of cell surface proteins consists of a transamidation reaction in which preassembled GPI donors are substituted for C-terminal signal sequences in nascent polypeptides. In previous studies we described a human K562 cell mutant, termed class K, that accumulates fully assembled GPI units but is unable to transfer them to N-terminally processed...
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