8/11, 35min. Don't get distracted in the reading.
This process is nonenzymatic glycosylation, where by glucose becomes attached to proteins without the aid of enzymes.
In contrast, the nonenzymatic process adds glucose haphazardly to any of several sites along any available peptide chain within a protein molecule.
If a given protein persists in the body for months or years, some of its Amadori products slowly dehydrate and rearrange themselves yet again, into new glucose-derived structures.
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