A single Caenorhabditis elegans Golgi apparatus-type transporter of UDP-glucose, UDP-galactose, UDP-N-acetylglucosamine, and UDP-N-acetylgalactosamine.

The genome of Caenorhabditis elegans encodes for 18 putative nucleotide sugar transporters even though its glycome only contains 7 different monosaccharides. To understand the biological significance of this phenomenon, we have begun a systematic substrate characterization of the above putative tran...

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Main Authors: Caffaro, C, Luhn, K, Bakker, H, Vestweber, D, Samuelson, J, Berninsone, P, Hirschberg, C
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: 2008