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Peptidoglycan

"Peptidoglycan" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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A structural polymer of the bacterial cell envelope consisting of sugars and amino acids which is responsible for both shape determination and cellular integrity under osmotic stress in virtually all bacteria.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Peptidoglycan" by people in this website by year, and whether "Peptidoglycan" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 26 publications over 16 distinct years, with a maximum of 4 publications in 2013
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