Muramic Acids
"Muramic Acids" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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Compounds consisting of glucosamine and lactate joined by an ether linkage. They occur naturally as N-acetyl derivatives in peptidoglycan, the characteristic polysaccharide composing bacterial cell walls. (From Dorland, 28th ed)
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D009112
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D02.241.081.844.520 D02.241.511.902.522 D09.067.550 D09.811.522
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Deng LL, Humphries DE, Arbeit RD, Carlton LE, Smole SC, Carroll JD. Identification of a novel peptidoglycan hydrolase CwlM in Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Biochim Biophys Acta. 2005 Feb 14; 1747(1):57-66.