N-glycosylation enables high lateral mobility of GPI-anchored proteins at a molecular crowding threshold

How molecular crowding affects membrane protein diffusion and function is not known. Here the authors measure diffusion of variant surface glycoprotein on trypanosomes and discover a molecular crowding threshold that limits diffusion, and find that N-linked glycans help to prevent retarding intermol...

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Main Authors: Andreas J. W. Hartel, Marius Glogger, Nicola G. Jones, Wasim Abuillan, Christopher Batram, Anne Hermann, Susanne F. Fenz, Motomu Tanaka, Markus Engstler
Format: article
Language:EN
Published: Nature Portfolio 2016
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Online Access:https://doaj.org/article/831b8d33c8d54ce4a633cf358d818285
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