Taxonomic group: fungi / Ascomycota
(Phylum: Ascomycota)
Organ / tissue: cell wall
NCBI PubMed ID: 14731865Journal NLM ID: 9200566Publisher: Elsevier
Institutions: Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, University of Vermont College of Medicine, Burlington, VT 05405, USA
Glycosylphosphatidylinositol (GPI) membrane anchors are essential for the integration of yeast cell adhesion proteins into the cell wall, but mature cell-wall proteins are unlikely to be attached directly to the membrane. We thus propose that GPI-anchored glycoprotein forms are intermediates in a process that crosslinks the major components of the cell wall by transglycosylation. This mechanism may be critical for both the biosynthesis and overall architecture of the cell wall.
Structure type: homopolymer
Trivial name: chitin
Compound class: O-polysaccharide, cell wall polysaccharide, glucan, polysaccharide, chitin
Contained glycoepitopes: IEDB_135813,IEDB_137340,IEDB_141807,IEDB_151531,IEDB_153212,IEDB_241099,IEDB_423114,IEDB_423150,SB_74,SB_85
Related record ID(s): 41640, 42301, 42350, 42638, 45260, 45262, 45281, 45287, 45290, 46290, 46291, 46292, 46304, 46323, 46396, 46404, 101632, 139869, 143703, 145244, 147175, 149427, 149871, 149874
NCBI Taxonomy refs (TaxIDs): 4932Reference(s) to other database(s): GTC:G97099AY, CCSD:
46067, CBank-STR:5851, GenDB:KF905651
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