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Glycosylation

Glycosylation

(Science: biochemistry) The process of adding sugar units such as in the addition of glycan chains to proteins. An occurrence where a carbohydrate is added to a protein molecule, which can occur in the golgi apparatus.


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Explain protein transport plz

... safe once again in a membrane bound organelle. Once inside the Golgi apparatus, the newly formed protein/enyzme will have its final modifications (glycosylation usually) that will then let the modified protein/enzyme bud off from the Golgi's membrane so that it is in its own membrane bound secretory ...

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by kolean
Sat Aug 22, 2009 8:15 pm
 
Forum: Cell Biology
Topic: Explain protein transport plz
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Cellular trivia ? anyone hmm hmm?

... AMINO ACIDS as building blocks of protein (though there are close to 100 different amino acids that are observed in proteomics: phosphorylation, glycosylation, acetylation, and hydroxylations of the common amino acids are just a few of the modifications we know of so far).

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by kolean
Fri Aug 21, 2009 3:08 am
 
Forum: Cell Biology
Topic: Cellular trivia ? anyone hmm hmm?
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Research in plants producing human antibodies!!?

There are differences in glycosylation even among eukaryotes, and even among quite closely related species. Yeasts often over-glycosylate their products, although this is not to say they couldn't get it right in many cases. Even such ...

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by biohazard
Thu Jul 02, 2009 6:04 am
 
Forum: Molecular Biology
Topic: Research in plants producing human antibodies!!?
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Research in plants producing human antibodies!!?

as far as I know, glycosylation signals are conserved among all eukaryotes. For example, I just expressed chicken avidin into yeast and it gets glycosylated just fine

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by MrMistery
Thu Jul 02, 2009 1:45 am
 
Forum: Molecular Biology
Topic: Research in plants producing human antibodies!!?
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Re: Research in plants producing human antibodies!!?

A place you are likely to run into problems is in getting the pattern of glycosylation right. B cells & plasma cells attach sugars to antibodies. The pattern of glycosylation might be critical for interaction with other systems in the animal, such as T cells ...

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by jonmoulton
Wed Jul 01, 2009 10:47 pm
 
Forum: Molecular Biology
Topic: Research in plants producing human antibodies!!?
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