Species Human Entrez 284098 | Human Mouse Ensembl n/a | |
Aliases PIGW, Gwt1, HPMRS5, phosphatidylinositol glycan anchor biosynthesis class W External IDs MGI: 1917575 HomoloGene: 6243 GeneCards: PIGW | ||
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Phosphatidylinositol glycan anchor biosynthesis class W is a protein that in humans is encoded by the PIGW gene.
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Function
Glycosylphosphatidylinositol (GPI) is a complex glycolipid that anchors many proteins to the cell surface. PIGW acts in the third step of GPI biosynthesis and acylates the inositol ring of phosphatidylinositol (Murakami et al., 2003 [PubMed 14517336]).
References
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