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The biosynthesis of glucose containing insect lipid linked oligosaccharide and its possible role in glycoprotein assembly

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Summary

Microsome enriched Ceratitis capitata extracts synthesized a glucosylated lipid linked oligosaccharide. Its properties were closely related to those of the previously described insect mannosylated dolichyl diphosphate oligosaccharides and almost the same as those of the rat liver dolichyl-diphosphate-(GlcNAc)2-(Man)9-(Glc)1–3. The saccharide moiety of, the latter was transferred to an unknown endogenous protein-like acceptor by the fly extracts. These represent the first evidence of a protein glycosylation in a pluricellular invertebrate through dolichyl derivatives.

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Abbreviations

Dol-P:

dolichyl phosphate

Dol-P-P:

dolichyl diphosphate

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Quesada Allue, L.A. The biosynthesis of glucose containing insect lipid linked oligosaccharide and its possible role in glycoprotein assembly. Mol Cell Biochem 33, 149–155 (1980). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00225287

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