Timing is Everything (IMAGE)

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Timing is Everything

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Timing is everything. As secreted proteins age their attached complex N-glycans undergo a progressive enzymatic loss of sugar linkages, one at a time, leading to the appearance of signals of increased age that determine a protein’s life span.

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Peter Allen, UCSB

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