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glycosylation

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glycosylation [glī‚käs·ə′lā·shən]
(biochemistry)
A chemical reaction in which glycosyl groups are added to a protein to produce a glycoprotein.


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Comment: ALA has been reported to decrease oxidative stress and to prevent glycosylation of proteins (an early step in the formation of advanced glycation end products).
They have organized the contributions into sections concentrating on glycoprotein and proteoglycan analysis; glycosylation site determination methods; the use of bioinformatic tools for analysis of mass spectrometric data on glycans; analysis of the specific single O-GlcNAc molecule found on nuclear and cytoplasmic proteins; and methods for measuring glycan biomolecular interactions using glycan arrays, mass spectrometry, nuclear magnetic resonance, antibodies, and small molecule inhibitors.
For example, there is a process known as glycosylation that takes place in the human body that helps and accelerates the aging process.
 
 
 
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