Recent evidence shows that mature Thy-1 glycoprotein lacks amino acids 113-143 predicted from the cDNA sequence and is anchored to the plasma membrane by a phosphatidylinositol-containing glycolipid attached to amino acid 112. Previously characterized Thy-1-deficient mutant lymphoma lines of complementation classes A and E were analysed. They make detergent binding Thy-1 precursors but, in contrast to wild-type, the detergent binding moiety cannot be removed by phospholipase C. Moreover, tryptophan which only occurs at position 124 is incorporated into mutant but not parental Thy-1. This suggests that the mutants make a Thy-1 precursor of 143 amino acids but fail to replace its C-terminal end by a glycolipid anchor.
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Conzelmann, A., Spiazzi, A., Hyman, R., & Bron, C. (1986). Anchoring of membrane proteins via phosphatidylinositol is deficient in two classes of Thy-1 negative mutant lymphoma cells. The EMBO Journal, 5(12), 3291–3296. https://doi.org/10.1002/j.1460-2075.1986.tb04642.x
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