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Probing into the role of conserved N-glycosylation sites in the Tyrosinase glycoprotein family

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N-linked glycosylation has a profound effect on the proper folding, oligomerization and stability of glycoproteins. These glycans impart many properties to proteins that may be important for their proper functioning, besides having a tendency to exert a chaperone-like effect on them. Certain glycosylation sites in a protein however, are more important than other sites for their function and stability. It has been observed that some N-glycosylation sites are conserved over families of glycoproteins over evolution, one such being the tyrosinase related protein family. The role of these conserved N-glycosylation sites in their trafficking, sorting, stability and activity has been examined here. By scrutinizing the different glycosylation sites on this family of glycoproteins it was inferred that different sites in the same family of polypeptides can perform distinct functions and conserved sites across the paralogues may perform diverse functions.

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    Garima Gupta, Sharmistha Sinha, Nivedita Mitra & Avadhesha Surolia

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Gupta, G., Sinha, S., Mitra, N. et al. Probing into the role of conserved N-glycosylation sites in the Tyrosinase glycoprotein family. Glycoconj J 26, 691–695 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10719-008-9213-x

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