FB2025_05 , released December 11, 2025
FB2025_05 , released December 11, 2025
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Term GPI anchor metabolic process ID (Ontology) GO:0006505 (Gene Ontology)
Definition 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 group, 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.[ ISBN:0198506732 ]
Also Known As "glycosylphosphatidylinositol metabolic process" ; "glycosylphosphatidylinositol metabolism" ; "GPI anchor metabolism"
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Genes (FBgn)  GO_BIOLOGICAL_PROCESS       1
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 GPI anchor metabolic process (all annotations which use CV term, excluding "NOT" statements)       1
     involved_in | GPI anchor metabolic process       1
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membrane lipid metabolic process
 |__glycolipid metabolic process____________
glycerophospholipid metabolic process       |
 |__phosphatidylinositol metabolic process__|
liposaccharide metabolic process            |
 |__glycolipid metabolic process____________|
                                            GPI anchor metabolic process  37 rec.
                                             |__GPI anchor biosynthetic process 37 rec.
                                             |__mannosyl diphosphorylinositol ceramide metabolic process
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Is a glycolipid metabolic process
phosphatidylinositol metabolic process
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  • "glycosylphosphatidylinositol metabolic process" EXACT
    "glycosylphosphatidylinositol metabolism" EXACT
    "GPI anchor metabolism" EXACT
    "GPI/GSI anchor metabolic process" BROAD
    "GPI/GSI anchor metabolism" BROAD
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