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Acetylglucosamine

Acetylglucosamine meaning

An amide derivative of glucose that forms part of the peptidoglycan of bacterial cell walls

Example sentences (4)

Autolysins do this by hydrolyzing the β-(1,4) bond between N-acetylmuramic acid and N-acetylglucosamine molecules.

In step 5, some of the UDP-N-acetylglucosamine (UDP-GlcNAc) is converted to UDP-MurNAc (UDP-N-acetylmuramic acid) by the addition of a lactyl group to the glucosamine.

Removal of mannose residues and addition of N-acetylglucosamine occur in medial cisternae.

The receptor galactosyltransferase (GalT) binds to the N-acetylglucosamine residues on the ZP3 and is important for binding with the sperm and activating the acrosome reaction.