Using Genetic Engineering Techniques,which of the Following Would You Do

question 28

Multiple Choice

Using genetic engineering techniques,which of the following would you do to a protein that normally is constitutively secreted to make it accumulate in the ER?

• A)fuse it to GFP
• B)add an amino acid that would get a mannose-6-phosphate group added to its carbohydrate
• C)add a KDEL sequence near its C-terminus
• D)mutate one of the asparagines that is normally glycosylated to an alanine,which is not glycosylated
• E)None of these would cause the protein to accumulate in the ER.

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