Glycoproteins

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• Benefits of Glycoproteins

  133441 Benefits of Glycoproteins Many species of beans produce a poisonous group of glycoproteins called lectins, which cause red blood cells to clump together (agglutinate) and cease to function. (Fortunately, cooking destroys most of them.)

• Cell membrane constitution and characteristics

  Glycoproteins (proteins with sugars attached) and glycolipids (lipids with sugars attached) are arranged such that the sugars face the outside of the membrane.

• enveloped and nonenveloped viruses

  Prior to budding, viral glycoproteins are targeted to the cell membrane. When the virus buds, it takes with it a portion of the cellular membrane containing viral proteins.

• Biochemistry multiple choice, enzymes

  To which amino acid residues in glycoproteins are the sugars commonly linked?

• Cell to Cell Contact Computing

  They are made up of intracellular attachment proteins or transmembrane linker glycoproteins.

• genetic diversity

  The cell surface glycoproteins bind to small fractions of pathogens and carry these fragments to the cell surface where they can be detected by T cells.

• Questions about vaccines

  In order to develop subunit vaccines, it is critical to identify the individual components out of a myriad of proteins and glycoproteins of the pathogen that are involved in inducing protection.

• Endocrine System

  . ___ various peptides, polypeptides, and glycoproteins. 3. ___ one example involves testosterone, defective receptors, and a condition called testicular feminization syndrome. 4. __ hormones that often require assistance from second messengers

• Integumentary homeostasis

  Stratified squamous tissue is made of many layers of cells, and the cells closer to the surface are flattened and dead, with lots of glycoproteins in the extracellular spaces. Also, they are full of the waxy protein keratin.