Table 2 Effect of VSG overexpression on the diffusion of VSG on live cells.

From: N-glycosylation enables high lateral mobility of GPI-anchored proteins at a molecular crowding threshold

Relative degree of VSG overexpression

Diffusion coefficient±s.d. (μm2 s−1)

Mobile fraction±s.d. (%)

N

1

0.020±0.005

78±11

18

1.2

0.019±0.008*

79±11

28

1.4

0.016±0.005#

77±11

29

  1. VSG, variant surface glycoprotein.
  2. P value of the diffusion coefficients of a two-tailed and unpaired t-test compared with a degree of overexpression of 1: P*>0.03, P#=0.005
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