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. 1976 Jan 15;154(1):243–244. doi: 10.1042/bj1540243

Evidence for specific transport of uridine diphosphate galactose across the Golgi membrane of rat mammary gland.

N J Kuhn, A White
PMCID: PMC1172697  PMID: 819010

Abstract

The inhibition of lactose synthesis by UDP-glucose, UDP-glucuronate and, less so, by UDP-N-acetylglucosamine was markedly smaller in preparations of "intact" than of lysed vesicles derived from the Golgi apparatus of lactating rat mammary gland. This constitutes evidence for a specific, probably facilitated, transport of UDP-galactose across the Golgi membrane.

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