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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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Autores principales: Lapébie, Pascal, Lombard, Vincent, Drula, Elodie, Terrapon, Nicolas, Henrissat, Bernard
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: 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

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