Reviewed, UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot O75487 (GPC4_HUMAN)

Names and originHide

Protein names

Recommended name:
Glypican-4

Alternative name(s):
K-glypican

Cleaved into the following chain:

1. Secreted glypican-4

Gene names

Name:	GPC4
ORF Names:	UNQ474/PRO937

Organism

Homo sapiens (Human) [Complete proteome]

Taxonomic identifier

9606 [NCBI]

Taxonomic lineage

Eukaryota › Metazoa › Chordata › Craniata › Vertebrata › Euteleostomi › Mammalia › Eutheria › Euarchontoglires › Primates › Haplorrhini › Catarrhini › Hominidae › Homo

Protein attributesHide

Sequence length	556 AA.
Sequence status	Complete.
Sequence processing	The displayed sequence is further processed into a mature form.
Protein existence	Evidence at protein level.

General annotation (Comments)Hide

Function	Cell surface proteoglycan that bears heparan sulfate. May be involved in the development of kidney tubules and of the central nervous system By similarity.
Subcellular location	Cell membrane; Lipid-anchor › GPI-anchor; Extracellular side By similarity. Secreted glypican-4: Secreted › extracellular space By similarity.
Sequence similarities	Belongs to the glypican family.

OntologiesHide

Keywords
Cellular component	Cell membrane Membrane Secreted
Coding sequence diversity	Polymorphism
Domain	Signal
PTM	GPI-anchor Glycoprotein Heparan sulfate Lipoprotein Proteoglycan
Technical term	Complete proteome
Gene Ontology (GO)
Biological process	anatomical structure morphogenesis Traceable author statement. Source: ProtInc cell proliferation Traceable author statement. Source: ProtInc
Cellular component	anchored to membrane Inferred from electronic annotation. Source: UniProtKB-KW extracellular space Inferred from electronic annotation. Source: UniProtKB-SubCell integral to plasma membrane Traceable author statement. Source: ProtInc proteinaceous extracellular matrix Inferred from electronic annotation. Source: InterPro
Molecular function	heparan sulfate proteoglycan binding Inferred from electronic annotation. Source: InterPro
Complete GO annotation...

Sequence annotation (Features)Hide

	Feature key	Position(s)	Length	Description	Graphical view	Feature identifier
Molecule processing
	Signal peptide	1 – 18	18	Potential
	Chain	19 – 529	511	Glypican-4		PRO_0000012315
	Chain	19 – ?		Secreted glypican-4		PRO_0000333847
	Propeptide	530 – 556	27	Removed in mature form Potential		PRO_0000012316
Amino acid modifications
	Lipidation	529	1	GPI-anchor amidated serine Potential
	Glycosylation	494	1	O-linked (Xyl...) (glycosaminoglycan) Potential
	Glycosylation	498	1	O-linked (Xyl...) (glycosaminoglycan) Potential
	Glycosylation	500	1	O-linked (Xyl...) (glycosaminoglycan) Potential
	Glycosylation	514	1	N-linked (GlcNAc...) Potential
Natural variations
	Natural variant	391	1	E → D. [dbSNP:rs1129980] Ref.1 Ref.2 Ref.3 Ref.9		VAR_016191
	Natural variant	442	1	A → V. [dbSNP:rs1048369] Ref.1 Ref.3 Ref.9		VAR_016192

SequencesHide

	Sequence		Length	Mass (Da)
	O75487-1 [UniParc]. Last modified May 16, 2003. Version 4. Checksum: 827E07FAA0BD8188	FASTA	556	62,412
	10 20 30 40 50 60 MARFGLPALL CTLAVLSAAL LAAELKSKSC SEVRRLYVSK GFNKNDAPLH EINGDHLKIC 70 80 90 100 110 120 PQGSTCCSQE MEEKYSLQSK DDFKSVVSEQ CNHLQAVFAS RYKKFDEFFK ELLENAEKSL 130 140 150 160 170 180 NDMFVKTYGH LYMQNSELFK DLFVELKRYY VVGNVNLEEM LNDFWARLLE RMFRLVNSQY 190 200 210 220 230 240 HFTDEYLECV SKYTEQLKPF GDVPRKLKLQ VTRAFVAART FAQGLAVAGD VVSKVSVVNP 250 260 270 280 290 300 TAQCTHALLK MIYCSHCRGL VTVKPCYNYC SNIMRGCLAN QGDLDFEWNN FIDAMLMVAE 310 320 330 340 350 360 RLEGPFNIES VMDPIDVKIS DAIMNMQDNS VQVSQKVFQG CGPPKPLPAG RISRSISESA 370 380 390 400 410 420 FSARFRPHHP EERPTTAAGT SLDRLVTDVK EKLKQAKKFW SSLPSNVCND ERMAAGNGNE 430 440 450 460 470 480 DDCWNGKGKS RYLFAVTGNG LANQGNNPEV QVDTSKPDIL ILRQIMALRV MTSKMKNAYN 490 500 510 520 530 540 GNDVDFFDIS DESSGEGSGS GCEYQQCPSE FDYNATDHAG KSANEKADSA GVRPGAQAYL 550 LTVFCILFLV MQREWR

ReferencesHide

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[1]	"GPC4, the gene for human K-glypican, flanks GPC3 on Xq26: deletion of the GPC3-GPC4 gene cluster in one family with Simpson-Golabi-Behmel syndrome." Veugelers M., Vermeesch J., Watanabe K., Yamaguchi Y., Marynen P., David G. Genomics 53:1-11(1998) [PubMed: 9787072] [Abstract] Cited for: NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE [MRNA], VARIANTS ASP-391 AND VAL-442. Tissue: Brain.
[2]	Pilia G., Mazzarella R., Huber R., Crisponi L., Lindsay S., Ireland M., Cao A., Schlessinger D. Submitted (MAY-1998) to the EMBL/GenBank/DDBJ databases Cited for: NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE [MRNA], VARIANT ASP-391.
[3]	Zhang B., Feng Z., Zhou Y., Peng X., Yuan J., Qiang B. Submitted (AUG-2001) to the EMBL/GenBank/DDBJ databases Cited for: NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE [MRNA], VARIANTS ASP-391 AND VAL-442.
[4]	"The secreted protein discovery initiative (SPDI), a large-scale effort to identify novel human secreted and transmembrane proteins: a bioinformatics assessment." Clark H.F., Gurney A.L., Abaya E., Baker K., Baldwin D.T., Brush J., Chen J., Chow B., Chui C., Crowley C., Currell B., Deuel B., Dowd P., Eaton D., Foster J.S., Grimaldi C., Gu Q., Hass P.E. , Heldens S., Huang A., Kim H.S., Klimowski L., Jin Y., Johnson S., Lee J., Lewis L., Liao D., Mark M.R., Robbie E., Sanchez C., Schoenfeld J., Seshagiri S., Simmons L., Singh J., Smith V., Stinson J., Vagts A., Vandlen R.L., Watanabe C., Wieand D., Woods K., Xie M.-H., Yansura D.G., Yi S., Yu G., Yuan J., Zhang M., Zhang Z., Goddard A.D., Wood W.I., Godowski P.J., Gray A.M. Genome Res. 13:2265-2270(2003) [PubMed: 12975309] [Abstract] Cited for: NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE [LARGE SCALE MRNA].
[5]	"Complete sequencing and characterization of 21,243 full-length human cDNAs." Ota T., Suzuki Y., Nishikawa T., Otsuki T., Sugiyama T., Irie R., Wakamatsu A., Hayashi K., Sato H., Nagai K., Kimura K., Makita H., Sekine M., Obayashi M., Nishi T., Shibahara T., Tanaka T., Ishii S. , Yamamoto J., Saito K., Kawai Y., Isono Y., Nakamura Y., Nagahari K., Murakami K., Yasuda T., Iwayanagi T., Wagatsuma M., Shiratori A., Sudo H., Hosoiri T., Kaku Y., Kodaira H., Kondo H., Sugawara M., Takahashi M., Kanda K., Yokoi T., Furuya T., Kikkawa E., Omura Y., Abe K., Kamihara K., Katsuta N., Sato K., Tanikawa M., Yamazaki M., Ninomiya K., Ishibashi T., Yamashita H., Murakawa K., Fujimori K., Tanai H., Kimata M., Watanabe M., Hiraoka S., Chiba Y., Ishida S., Ono Y., Takiguchi S., Watanabe S., Yosida M., Hotuta T., Kusano J., Kanehori K., Takahashi-Fujii A., Hara H., Tanase T.-O., Nomura Y., Togiya S., Komai F., Hara R., Takeuchi K., Arita M., Imose N., Musashino K., Yuuki H., Oshima A., Sasaki N., Aotsuka S., Yoshikawa Y., Matsunawa H., Ichihara T., Shiohata N., Sano S., Moriya S., Momiyama H., Satoh N., Takami S., Terashima Y., Suzuki O., Nakagawa S., Senoh A., Mizoguchi H., Goto Y., Shimizu F., Wakebe H., Hishigaki H., Watanabe T., Sugiyama A., Takemoto M., Kawakami B., Yamazaki M., Watanabe K., Kumagai A., Itakura S., Fukuzumi Y., Fujimori Y., Komiyama M., Tashiro H., Tanigami A., Fujiwara T., Ono T., Yamada K., Fujii Y., Ozaki K., Hirao M., Ohmori Y., Kawabata A., Hikiji T., Kobatake N., Inagaki H., Ikema Y., Okamoto S., Okitani R., Kawakami T., Noguchi S., Itoh T., Shigeta K., Senba T., Matsumura K., Nakajima Y., Mizuno T., Morinaga M., Sasaki M., Togashi T., Oyama M., Hata H., Watanabe M., Komatsu T., Mizushima-Sugano J., Satoh T., Shirai Y., Takahashi Y., Nakagawa K., Okumura K., Nagase T., Nomura N., Kikuchi H., Masuho Y., Yamashita R., Nakai K., Yada T., Nakamura Y., Ohara O., Isogai T., Sugano S. Nat. Genet. 36:40-45(2004) [PubMed: 14702039] [Abstract] Cited for: NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE [LARGE SCALE MRNA]. Tissue: Brain.
[6]	"The DNA sequence of the human X chromosome." Ross M.T., Grafham D.V., Coffey A.J., Scherer S., McLay K., Muzny D., Platzer M., Howell G.R., Burrows C., Bird C.P., Frankish A., Lovell F.L., Howe K.L., Ashurst J.L., Fulton R.S., Sudbrak R., Wen G., Jones M.C. , Hurles M.E., Andrews T.D., Scott C.E., Searle S., Ramser J., Whittaker A., Deadman R., Carter N.P., Hunt S.E., Chen R., Cree A., Gunaratne P., Havlak P., Hodgson A., Metzker M.L., Richards S., Scott G., Steffen D., Sodergren E., Wheeler D.A., Worley K.C., Ainscough R., Ambrose K.D., Ansari-Lari M.A., Aradhya S., Ashwell R.I., Babbage A.K., Bagguley C.L., Ballabio A., Banerjee R., Barker G.E., Barlow K.F., Barrett I.P., Bates K.N., Beare D.M., Beasley H., Beasley O., Beck A., Bethel G., Blechschmidt K., Brady N., Bray-Allen S., Bridgeman A.M., Brown A.J., Brown M.J., Bonnin D., Bruford E.A., Buhay C., Burch P., Burford D., Burgess J., Burrill W., Burton J., Bye J.M., Carder C., Carrel L., Chako J., Chapman J.C., Chavez D., Chen E., Chen G., Chen Y., Chen Z., Chinault C., Ciccodicola A., Clark S.Y., Clarke G., Clee C.M., Clegg S., Clerc-Blankenburg K., Clifford K., Cobley V., Cole C.G., Conquer J.S., Corby N., Connor R.E., David R., Davies J., Davis C., Davis J., Delgado O., Deshazo D., Dhami P., Ding Y., Dinh H., Dodsworth S., Draper H., Dugan-Rocha S., Dunham A., Dunn M., Durbin K.J., Dutta I., Eades T., Ellwood M., Emery-Cohen A., Errington H., Evans K.L., Faulkner L., Francis F., Frankland J., Fraser A.E., Galgoczy P., Gilbert J., Gill R., Gloeckner G., Gregory S.G., Gribble S., Griffiths C., Grocock R., Gu Y., Gwilliam R., Hamilton C., Hart E.A., Hawes A., Heath P.D., Heitmann K., Hennig S., Hernandez J., Hinzmann B., Ho S., Hoffs M., Howden P.J., Huckle E.J., Hume J., Hunt P.J., Hunt A.R., Isherwood J., Jacob L., Johnson D., Jones S., de Jong P.J., Joseph S.S., Keenan S., Kelly S., Kershaw J.K., Khan Z., Kioschis P., Klages S., Knights A.J., Kosiura A., Kovar-Smith C., Laird G.K., Langford C., Lawlor S., Leversha M., Lewis L., Liu W., Lloyd C., Lloyd D.M., Loulseged H., Loveland J.E., Lovell J.D., Lozado R., Lu J., Lyne R., Ma J., Maheshwari M., Matthews L.H., McDowall J., McLaren S., McMurray A., Meidl P., Meitinger T., Milne S., Miner G., Mistry S.L., Morgan M., Morris S., Mueller I., Mullikin J.C., Nguyen N., Nordsiek G., Nyakatura G., O'dell C.N., Okwuonu G., Palmer S., Pandian R., Parker D., Parrish J., Pasternak S., Patel D., Pearce A.V., Pearson D.M., Pelan S.E., Perez L., Porter K.M., Ramsey Y., Reichwald K., Rhodes S., Ridler K.A., Schlessinger D., Schueler M.G., Sehra H.K., Shaw-Smith C., Shen H., Sheridan E.M., Shownkeen R., Skuce C.D., Smith M.L., Sotheran E.C., Steingruber H.E., Steward C.A., Storey R., Swann R.M., Swarbreck D., Tabor P.E., Taudien S., Taylor T., Teague B., Thomas K., Thorpe A., Timms K., Tracey A., Trevanion S., Tromans A.C., d'Urso M., Verduzco D., Villasana D., Waldron L., Wall M., Wang Q., Warren J., Warry G.L., Wei X., West A., Whitehead S.L., Whiteley M.N., Wilkinson J.E., Willey D.L., Williams G., Williams L., Williamson A., Williamson H., Wilming L., Woodmansey R.L., Wray P.W., Yen J., Zhang J., Zhou J., Zoghbi H., Zorilla S., Buck D., Reinhardt R., Poustka A., Rosenthal A., Lehrach H., Meindl A., Minx P.J., Hillier L.W., Willard H.F., Wilson R.K., Waterston R.H., Rice C.M., Vaudin M., Coulson A., Nelson D.L., Weinstock G., Sulston J.E., Durbin R.M., Hubbard T., Gibbs R.A., Beck S., Rogers J., Bentley D.R. Nature 434:325-337(2005) [PubMed: 15772651] [Abstract] Cited for: NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE [LARGE SCALE GENOMIC DNA].
[7]	Mural R.J., Istrail S., Sutton G.G., Florea L., Halpern A.L., Mobarry C.M., Lippert R., Walenz B., Shatkay H., Dew I., Miller J.R., Flanigan M.J., Edwards N.J., Bolanos R., Fasulo D., Halldorsson B.V., Hannenhalli S., Turner R. , Yooseph S., Lu F., Nusskern D.R., Shue B.C., Zheng X.H., Zhong F., Delcher A.L., Huson D.H., Kravitz S.A., Mouchard L., Reinert K., Remington K.A., Clark A.G., Waterman M.S., Eichler E.E., Adams M.D., Hunkapiller M.W., Myers E.W., Venter J.C. Submitted (SEP-2005) to the EMBL/GenBank/DDBJ databases Cited for: NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE [LARGE SCALE GENOMIC DNA].
[8]	"The status, quality, and expansion of the NIH full-length cDNA project: the Mammalian Gene Collection (MGC)." The MGC Project Team Genome Res. 14:2121-2127(2004) [PubMed: 15489334] [Abstract] Cited for: NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE [LARGE SCALE MRNA]. Tissue: Skin.
[9]	"Mutational analysis of the GPC3/GPC4 glypican gene cluster on Xq26 in patients with Simpson-Golabi-Behmel syndrome: identification of loss-of-function mutations in the GPC3 gene." Veugelers M., Cat B.D., Muyldermans S.Y., Reekmans G., Delande N., Frints S., Legius E., Fryns J.-P., Schrander-Stumpel C., Weidle B., Magdalena N., David G. Hum. Mol. Genet. 9:1321-1328(2000) [PubMed: 10814714] [Abstract] Cited for: VARIANTS ASP-391 AND VAL-442.

Cross-referencesHide

Sequence databases
EMBL GenBank DDBJ	AF030186 mRNA. Translation: AAC69991.1. AF064826 mRNA. Translation: AAC31899.1. AL034400, AL109623 Genomic DNA. Translation: CAI42076.1. AL109623, AL034400 Genomic DNA. Translation: CAB86664.2. AY358507 mRNA. Translation: AAQ88871.1. AY052833 mRNA. Translation: AAL11018.1. AK312605 mRNA. Translation: BAG35494.1. CH471107 Genomic DNA. Translation: EAX11772.1. BC017166 mRNA. Translation: AAH17166.1.
IPI	IPI00232571.
RefSeq	NP_001439.2.
UniGene	Hs.58367
3D structure databases
ModBase	Search...
Protein-protein interaction databases
STRING	O75487.
Proteomic databases
PeptideAtlas	O75487.
PRIDE	O75487.
Genome annotation databases
Ensembl	ENST00000370828; ENSP00000359864; ENSG00000076716; Homo sapiens. [Genome view]
GeneID	2239.
KEGG	hsa:2239.
UCSC	uc004exc.1. human.
Organism-specific databases
CTD	2239.
GeneCards	GC0XM132261.
H-InvDB	HIX0028335.
HGNC	HGNC:4452. GPC4.
HPA	HPA030836.
MIM	300168. gene.
Orphanet	373. Simpson-Golabi-Behmel syndrome.
PharmGKB	PA28833.
GenAtlas	Search...
Phylogenomic databases
eggNOG	prNOG13317.
HOGENOM	HBG713994.
HOVERGEN	HBG003464.
InParanoid	O75487.
OMA	MKNAYNG.
OrthoDB	EOG9Z656W.
PhylomeDB	O75487.
Gene expression databases
ArrayExpress	O75487.
Bgee	O75487.
CleanEx	HS_GPC4.
Genevestigator	O75487.
GermOnline	ENSG00000076716. Homo sapiens.
Family and domain databases
InterPro	IPR001863. Glypican. IPR019803. Glypican_CS. [Graphical view]
PANTHER	PTHR10822. Glypican. 1 hit.
Pfam	PF01153. Glypican. 1 hit. [Graphical view]
PROSITE	PS01207. GLYPICAN. 1 hit. [Graphical view]
ProtoNet	Search...
Other Resources
NextBio	9061.
SOURCE	Search...

Entry informationHide

Entry name

GPC4_HUMAN

Accession

Primary (citable) accession number: O75487
Secondary accession number(s): B2R6J7 , Q6ZMA6, Q96L43, Q9NU08, Q9UJN1, Q9UPD9

Entry history

Integrated into UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot:	May 30, 2000
Last sequence update:	May 16, 2003
Last modified:	July 13, 2010
This is version 92 of the entry and version 4 of the sequence. [Complete history]

Entry status

Reviewed (UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot)

Annotation project

HPI (Human Proteome Initiative)

Disclaimer

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