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Muramic acid is an
amino sugar acid. In
terms of
chemical composition, it is the
ether of
lactic acid and glucosamine. It
occurs naturally as N-acetylmuramic...
- (disambiguation)
Other uses: Mur (cuneiform), a
cuneiform sign An
abbreviation for
muramic acid mur, ISO 639-3 code for the
Murle language,
spoken in
South Sudan...
- were
unable to
detect muramic acid in cell extracts.
Subsequent studies determined that C.
trachomatis synthesizes both
muramic acid and peptidoglycan...
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identified and characterized.
These include (1) N-glycosylation of N-acetyl-
muramic acid, (2) O-acetylation of N-acetylmuramic acid and (3) N-deacetylation...
- N-Acetylmuramic acid (NAM or MurNAc) is an
organic compound with the
chemical formula C 11H 19NO 8. It is a
monomer of
peptidoglycan in most bacterial...
- 1016/S0040-4039(00)99616-3. Solange, A. (1992). "HBTU: a mild
activating agent of
muramic acid".
Bioorganic &
Medicinal Chemistry Letters. 2 (6): 571–574. doi:10...
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Scinto SL, et al. (August 2018). "Synthesis of
Functionalized N-Acetyl
Muramic Acids To
Probe Bacterial Cell Wall
Recycling and Biosynthesis". Journal...
- the
action of lysozymes. They have O-acetyl
groups on carbon-6 of some
muramic acid residues. The
matrix substances in the
walls of Gram-positive bacteria...
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walls of
other bacteria.
classic bacterial lipophosphoglycans such as
muramic acid, glucosamine,
hydroxy fatty acids, heptose, and 2-keto-3-deoxyoctonic...
- branched,
cottony aerial mycelium.
Their cell
walls contain N-acetylated
muramic acid and meso-diaminopimelic acid. They
produce spores which are either...