25] Facts About: Mitochondrial Glycoproteins
By: Richard D. Cummings Until a few years ago it was believed that mitochondria do not contain glycoproteins. However, mitochondria contain a variant form of the enzyme UDP-GlcNAc: polypeptide O-β-N-acetylglucosaminyltransferase (OGT) that adds O-GlcNAc to Ser/Thr residues of proteins in...