glypican

Structure

• glypicans & syndecans are two major families of cell-surface proteoglycans
• glypicans (GRIPS) are anchored by glycosyl-phosphatidylinositol (GPI) linkage
• syndecans (SLIPS) have highly conserved transmembrane regions & short cytoplasmic tails

More general terms

• glypiated protein
• secreted protein

More specific terms

• glypican-1 (GPC1)
• glypican-2; cerebroglycan (GPC2)
• glypican-3; intestinal protein OCI-5; GTR2-2; MXR7; (GPC3, OCI5)
• glypican-4; K-glypican (GPC4)
• Glypican-5; contains: secreted glypican-5 (GPC5)
• glypican-6 (GPC6)