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Sialic acids are a
class of alpha-keto acid
sugars with a nine-carbon backbone. The term "
sialic acid" (from Gr**** σίαλον (síalon) 'saliva') was first...
- In geology, sial is an
antiquated blended term for the
composition of the
upper layer of Earth's crust,
namely rocks rich in
aluminium silicate minerals...
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Orthomyxoviridae families.
Hemagglutinins are
responsible for
binding to receptors,
sialic acid residues, on host cell
membranes to
initiate virus docking and infection...
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proteins on the
surface of the envelope,
which bind to
cells that
contain sialic acid
receptors on the
surface of the cell membrane. For N1
subtypes with...
- N-Acetylneuraminic acid (Neu5Ac or NANA) is the
predominant sialic acid
found in
human cells, and many
mammalian cells.
Other forms, such as N-Glycolylneuraminic...
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Hydrolysis of α-(2→3)-, α-(2→6)-, α-(2→8)-
glycosidic linkages of
terminal sialic acid
residues in oligosaccharides, glycoproteins, glycolipids, colominic...
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binding to the APN in the
presence of the
sialic acid.
Feline coronavirus infections are
therefore sialic acid dependent. The
Porcine epidemic diarrhea...
- GNE/MNK a key
enzyme in the
sialic acid
biosynthetic pathway, and loss-of-function
mutations in GNE/MNK may lead to a lack of
sialic acid,
which in turn could...
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Salla disease (SD) or mild Free
Sialic Acid
Storage Disease (FSASD) is an
autosomal recessive lysosomal storage disease characterized by
early physical...
- CD33 or Siglec-3 (
sialic acid
binding Ig-like
lectin 3, SIGLEC3, SIGLEC-3, gp67, p67) is a
transmembrane receptor expressed on
cells of
myeloid lineage...
