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Bacteroidetes use thousands of enzyme combinations to break down glycans
Unlike proteins, glycan chains are not directly encoded by DNA, but by the specificity of the enzymes that assemble them. Theoretical calculations have proposed an astronomical number of possible isomers (> 10(12) hexasaccharides) but the actual diversity of glycan structures in nature is not kno...
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Nature Publishing Group UK
2019
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6499787/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31053724 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-10068-5 |