Uridine Diphosphate N-Acetylglucosamine
"Uridine Diphosphate N-Acetylglucosamine" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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Serves as the biological precursor of insect chitin, of muramic acid in bacterial cell walls, and of sialic acids in mammalian glycoproteins.
| Descriptor ID |
D014537
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D03.383.742.686.850.600.677.120 D09.408.620.569.727.120 D13.695.740.850.600.677.120 D13.695.827.708.727.120 D13.695.827.919.600.677.120
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| Concept/Terms |
Uridine Diphosphate N-Acetylglucosamine- Uridine Diphosphate N-Acetylglucosamine
- Diphosphate N-Acetylglucosamine, Uridine
- N-Acetylglucosamine, Uridine Diphosphate
- UDPGNAc
- Uridine Pyrophosphoacetylglucosamine
- Pyrophosphoacetylglucosamine, Uridine
- Uridine Diphospho-N-Acetylglucosamine
- Diphospho-N-Acetylglucosamine, Uridine
- Uridine Diphospho N Acetylglucosamine
- UDP Acetylglucosamine
- Acetylglucosamine, UDP
- Uridine Diphosphate N Acetylglucosamine
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| 2005 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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| 2007 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Uridine Diphosphate N-Acetylglucosamine" by people in Profiles.
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Miller WL, Matewish MJ, McNally DJ, Ishiyama N, Anderson EM, Brewer D, Brisson JR, Berghuis AM, Lam JS. Flagellin glycosylation in Pseudomonas aeruginosa PAK requires the O-antigen biosynthesis enzyme WbpO. J Biol Chem. 2008 Feb 08; 283(6):3507-3518.
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Schoenhofen IC, McNally DJ, Brisson JR, Logan SM. Elucidation of the CMP-pseudaminic acid pathway in Helicobacter pylori: synthesis from UDP-N-acetylglucosamine by a single enzymatic reaction. Glycobiology. 2006 Sep; 16(9):8C-14C.
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Schoenhofen IC, McNally DJ, Vinogradov E, Whitfield D, Young NM, Dick S, Wakarchuk WW, Brisson JR, Logan SM. Functional characterization of dehydratase/aminotransferase pairs from Helicobacter and Campylobacter: enzymes distinguishing the pseudaminic acid and bacillosamine biosynthetic pathways. J Biol Chem. 2006 Jan 13; 281(2):723-32.
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Sobering AK, Watanabe R, Romeo MJ, Yan BC, Specht CA, Orlean P, Riezman H, Levin DE. Yeast Ras regulates the complex that catalyzes the first step in GPI-anchor biosynthesis at the ER. Cell. 2004 May 28; 117(5):637-48.
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Bulik DA, Olczak M, Lucero HA, Osmond BC, Robbins PW, Specht CA. Chitin synthesis in Saccharomyces cerevisiae in response to supplementation of growth medium with glucosamine and cell wall stress. Eukaryot Cell. 2003 Oct; 2(5):886-900.