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Unified Theory of Bacterial Sialometabolism: How and Why Bacteria Metabolize Host Sialic Acids
Sialic acids are structurally diverse nine-carbon ketosugars found mostly in humans and other animals as the terminal units on carbohydrate chains linked to proteins or lipids. The sialic acids function in cell-cell and cell-molecule interactions necessary for organismic development and homeostasis....
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Hindawi Publishing Corporation
2013
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3658417/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23724337 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/816713 |