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Dystroglycan (DG), a muscular transmembrane protein, plays a critical role in transducing extracellular matrix-derived signals to the cytoskeleton and provides physical strength to skeletal muscle cell membranes. The extracellular domain of DG, α-DG, displays unique glycosylation patterns. Fully functional glycosylation is required for this domain to interact with components of extracellular matrices, including laminin. One of the unique sugar compositions found in such functional glycans on DG is two ribitol phosphates that are transferred by the sequential actions of fukutin (FKTN) and fukutin-related protein (FKRP), which use CDP-ribitol as a donor substrate. These are then further primed for matriglycan biosynthesis. A recent in vitro study reported that glycerol phosphate could be similarly added to α-DG by FKTN and FKRP if they used CDP-glycerol (CDP-Gro) as a donor substrate. However, the physiological relevance of these findings remains elusive. Imae et al. addressed the knowledge gap regarding whether CDP-Gro is present in mammals and how CDP-Gro is synthesized and functions in mammals. © The Author(s) 2023. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Japanese Biochemical Society. All rights reserved.

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Yuji Kondo, Tetsuya Okajima. Inhibitory machinery for the functional dystroglycan glycosylation. Journal of biochemistry. 2023 Apr 26;173(5):333-335

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