Susan E Sparks, Children's National Medical Center, Washington, DC, USA
Published online: September 2007
DOI: 10.1002/9780470015902.a0020230
Glycosylation is an essential process by which sugars are attached to proteins and lipids. Complete lack of glycosylation is not compatible with life. Because of the widespread functions of glycosylation, inherited disorders of glycosylation are multisystemic.
Keywords: glycosylation; glycoproteins; glycolipids; congenital; muscular dystrophy
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Figure 1. General Schematic of protein glycosylation. (A) The sugar substrates are activated in the cytoplasm, (B) then transported into the Endoplasmic reticulum or the Golgi through a specific sugar transporter and (C) finally attached to the growing oligosaccharide chain on the protein via a glycosyltransferase.
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Figure 2. N-linked glycosylation pathway with sites of defects noted in blue.
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