The effect of glucose deprivation on the synthesis of lipid-linked oligosaccharides by Chinese hamster ovary cells has been studied. When these cells are placed in serum-free Dulbecco's minimal essential medium devoid of glucose, there is a rapid cessation of the synthesis of the usual Glc3Man9GlcNAc2 lipid-linked oligosaccharide and the accumulation of a smaller species with the composition Ma...

We report the X-ray crystal structure of a site-selective peptide catalyst moiety and teicoplanin A2-2 complex. The expressed protein ligation technique was used to couple T4 lysozyme (T4L) and a synthetic peptide catalyst responsible for the selective phosphorylation of the N-acetylglucosamine sugar in a teicoplanin A2-2 derivative. The T4L-Pmh-dPro-Aib-dAla-dAla construct was crystallized in ...

The title complex, [Nb(C(7)H(12)N(3))(4)]PF(6), features chelating hpp anions (hpp is 1,3,4,6,7,8-hexahydro-2H-pyrimido[1,2-a]pyrim-idine) that define a distorted dodeca-hedral coordination geometry based on an N(8) donor set. The Nb atom is situated on a site of symmetry , and the PF(6) (-) anion has crystallographic fourfold symmetry.