| Term Name: | lipophosphoglycan |
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| Synonyms: | lipopeptidophosphoglycan, lipopeptidophosphoglycans, lipophosphoglycans, LPG, LPGs, LPPG, LPPGs, PPG, PPGs, proteophosphoglycan, proteophosphoglycans |
| Definition: | A glycoconjugate expressed by Leishmania promastigotes, the stage of the parasite characteristic for the sandfly vector. Lipophosphoglycan consists of lysoalkyl-sn-glycerophosphoinositol linked to a phosphosaccharide core conserved in all species, which is connected to PO4-6GalĪ²1,4ManĪ±1 repeats with species-specific substitutions at the Gal residue; the repeats are capped by conserved and species-specific oligosaccharides. |
| Ontology: | ChEBI [CHEBI:59681] ( EBI ) |