lipophosphoglycan
lipophosphoglycan
A glycoconjugate expressed by <em>Leishmania</em> promastigotes, the stage of the parasite characteristic for the sandfly vector. Lipophosphoglycan consists of lysoalkyl-<em>sn</em>-glycerophosphoinositol linked to a phosphosaccharide core conserved in all species, which is connected to PO<small><sub>4</sub></small>-6Galβ1,4Manα1 repeats with species-specific substitutions at the Gal residue; the repeats are capped by conserved and species-specific oligosaccharides.