Question: What are the roles of N- and O-glycans? Use examples to illustrate your answer.
Answer: Although the same glycosylation machinery is available to all proteins which enter the secretory pathway in a given cell, most glycoproteins emerge with characteristic glycosylation patterns and heterogeneous populations of glycans at each glycosylation site. What are the roles of these N- an O-linked glycans?...(short extract)
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- Subject: Biological Sciences
- Course: Human Biology
- Level: Degree
- Year: 2nd/3rd
- Mark: 64%
- Words: 1653
- Date submitted: March 13, 2009
- Date written: Not available
- References: No
- Document type: Essay*
- Essay ID: 982
