http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/02/100205112105.htm
In this article, Johns Hopkins scientists made a breakthrough in the role of the
sugar, O-GlcNAc, in cell division. In their experiment,they observed that the O-GlcNAc molecule blocked a phosphate from attaching near the phosphate site in a cell. Also, when they treated a "standard human cell line" with extra sugar molecules, the result was a cell with two nuclei that could not divide. In other words, it resulted in polyploidy. This discovery reveals that cellular division is much more complicated then previously believed.
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