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Dolichol

A lipid that is present in the ER membrane that can be combined with sugars to create activated sugars which are anchored to the ER. These dolichol-linked activated sugars enable the attachment of sugars to other biomolecules in the ER and play key roles in N-glycosylation, GPI-anchor biosynthesis, O-mannosylation and C-mannosylation.