Amino and Nucleotide Sugar Metabolism is essential to the plant of Arabidopsis Thaliana, as both produce products necessary for multiple processes within the organism. Amino sugar metabolism leads to the replacing hydroxyl groups with that of amine groups that then can go on to make up polysaccharides responsible for structural integrity and glycospingolipids. Glycospingolipids is responsible for transport of certain proteins as well as make up lipid rafts. Whereas nucleotide sugar metabolism creates nucleotide sugars that act to donate glycans to residues through glycosylation, through this can produce polysaccharides. These nucleotide sugars can also act as intermediates in interconversions and in order to shuttle them to where A.thaliana requires it there are many transporters present as they are relatively big molecules.

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