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GPC
GPC may refer to: Businesses and organisations Politics * General People's Congress (other) * Goa People's Congress, in India * Green Party of Canada * Group of Cameroonian Progressives Other businesses and organisations * Genuine Parts Company, an American car servicer * Goldwyn Pictures, an American film studio * Global Plant Clinic, an agricultural organization * GPC Biotech, a German biopharmaceutical company Places * Gene Polisseni Center, an ice hockey arena at Rochester Institute of Technology, New York, US * George Pearson Centre, a long-term care facility in Vancouver, Canada * Putnam County Airport, in Indiana, US Science and technology * Gel permeation chromatography * Generalized polynomial chaos * General Polygon Clipper, a graphics library * Giant papillary conjunctivitis, a disease of the eye * Gigaparsec (Gpc), a unit of distance * Global Privacy Control, a data protection signal for the web * Glycophorin C, a sialoglycoprotein * Gl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Glypican
Glypicans constitute one of the two major families of heparan sulfate proteoglycans, with the other major family being syndecans. Six glypicans have been identified in mammals, and are referred to as GPC1 through GPC6. In ''Drosophila'' two glypicans have been identified, and these are referred to as dally (division abnormally delayed) and dally-like. One glypican has been identified in ''C. elegans''. Glypicans seem to play a vital role in developmental morphogenesis, and have been suggested as regulators for the Wnt and Hedgehog signaling pathway, Hedgehog cell signaling pathways. They have additionally been suggested as regulators for fibroblast growth factor and bone morphogenic protein signaling. Structure While six glypicans have been identified in mammals, several characteristics remain consistent between these different proteins. First, the core protein of all glypicans is similar in size, approximately ranging between 60 and 70 kDa. Additionally, in terms of amino acid se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |