Figure: Sugar Chain (IMAGE)

Osaka University

Figure: Sugar Chain

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When the functional sugar chain is connected to GLUT4, it imports glucose. When the abnormal sugar is attached to GLUT4, it will be rapidly internalized into the cell after a quality check at plasma membrane.

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