AmiGO 2: Term Details for "GPI anchor binding" (GO:0034235)

Accession: GO:0034235
Name: GPI anchor binding
Ontology: molecular_function
Synonyms: glycosylphosphatidylinositol binding
Alternate IDs: None
Definition: Binding to a glycosylphosphatidylinositol anchor. GPI anchors serve to attach membrane proteins to the lipid bilayer of cell membranes. Source: GOC:vw
Comment: Note that this term should be used to annotate gene products that interact non-covalently with GPI anchors, and not proteins that have GPI anchors covalently attached.
History: See term history for GO:0034235 at QuickGO
Chem. react.: None
Subset: None
Related: Link to all genes and gene products annotated to GPI anchor binding (excluding "regulates").; Link to all direct and indirect annotations to GPI anchor binding (excluding "regulates").; Link to all direct and indirect annotations download (limited to first 10,000) for GPI anchor binding (excluding "regulates").

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For more information, please see the ontology relation documentation.

subject	relation	object
GPI anchor binding	is_a	phosphatidylinositol binding (GO:0035091)
GPI anchor binding	RO:0004009	glycosylphosphatidylinositol (CHEBI:24410)
GPI anchor binding	is_a	glycolipid binding (GO:0051861)

subject	relation	object
lipoarabinomannan binding (GO:0001876)	is_a	GPI anchor binding

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