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Glucosidase II complex Overview

GO Annotations consist of four mandatory components: a gene product, a term from one of the three Gene Ontology (GO) controlled vocabularies (Molecular Function, Biological Process, and Cellular Component), a reference, and an evidence code.


Summary
Glycoprotein-processing enzyme that successively cleaves the innermost two alpha1,3-linked glucose residues from N-linked oligosaccharides in the endoplasmic reticulum during glycoprotein biogenesis. The enzyme has dual activity, cleaving two alpha1,3-linked glucose residues in succession from Glc2Man9GlcNAc2 (G2M9) to Glc1Man9GlcNAc2 (G1M9) (cleavage-1), and then to Man9GlcNAc2 (M9) (cleavage-2). G1M9 plays a key role in glycoprotein quality control in the ER, because it is a primary ligand of the lectin chaperones calnexin (CNX) and calreticulin (CRT). Therefore, the cleavage-2 activity provides an exit for correctly folded glycoproteins from the CNX/CRT cycle, while the cleavage-1 activity provides an entry for immature glycoproteins into the cycle.
GO Slim Terms

The yeast GO Slim terms are higher level terms that best represent the major S. cerevisiae biological processes, functions, and cellular components. The GO Slim terms listed here are the broader parent terms for the specific terms to which this gene product is annotated, and thus represent the more general processes, functions, and components in which it is involved.

hydrolase activity, hydrolase activity, acting on glycosyl bonds, biosynthetic process, carbohydrate metabolic process