See photo Transcribed Image Text: Oligosaccharides are short sugar chains that can become covalently linked to proteins and lipids through condensation reactions. These modified proteins and lipids are called glycoproteins
See photo Transcribed Image Text: Oligosaccharides are short sugar chains that can become covalently linked to proteins and lipids through
condensation reactions. These modified proteins and lipids are called glycoproteins and glycolipids. Within a
protein, which of the amino acids shown below is the most probable target for this type of modification?
serine
glycine
phenylalanine
methionine
(Ser, or S)
(Gly, or G)
(Phe, or F)
(Met, or M)
H O
H
но
но
-N-Ċ-Č-
-N-C- C-
N-Ć-C –
-N-Ć-Č-
H CH2
H H
н сн
H CH,
OH
CH,
Š-CH,