Glycolipids Have Been Shown to Play Roles in Certain Disease

question 56

Multiple Choice

Glycolipids have been shown to play roles in certain disease states in humans and other mammals.Which of the situations below illustrate the ways in which this can happen?

• A)failure to add a sugar to the glycolipid.
• B)inhibition of glycolipid synthesis.
• C)they are the site at which bacterial toxins like those that cause botulism and cholera first bind cells.
• D)they are the site at which the influenza virus first binds a cell.
• E)All of these are correct.