glycoprotein

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(thing) by CrazyIvan (6.8 y) (print) ? (I like it!) Thu Apr 06 2000 at 19:18:54

Fairly self explanatory, a protein with varying numbers of sugars attached. Proteins normaly undergo glycosylation (the process where sugars are added to specific amino acids) in the Endoplasmic Reticulum. This is a very common process for proteins in both humans and bacteria. Generally large branching sugar structures are added, then they are trimmed back by a variety of enzymes.

(thing) by BioTech (6.3 mon) (print) ? (I like it!) Sun Feb 09 2003 at 6:50:45

A protein linked to a sugar or polysaccharide which are components of receptor molecules on the outer surface of cells.

From the BioTech Dictionary at http://biotech.icmb.utexas.edu/. For further information see the BioTech homenode.

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antigenic determinant	vasopeptidase inhibitor	aprotinin	von Willebrand factor
Link and Link	polysaccharide

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