Uridine Diphosphate N-Acetylmuramic Acid
"Uridine Diphosphate N-Acetylmuramic Acid" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A nucleoside diphosphate sugar which is formed from UDP-N-acetylglucosamine and phosphoenolpyruvate. It serves as the building block upon which peptidoglycan is formed.
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D014538
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D03.383.742.686.850.600.677.150 D09.408.620.569.727.150 D13.695.740.850.600.677.150 D13.695.827.708.727.150 D13.695.827.919.600.677.150
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Uridine Diphosphate N-Acetylmuramic Acid" by people in Profiles.
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Semisynthetic Lipopeptides Derived from Nisin Display Antibacterial Activity and Lipid II Binding on Par with That of the Parent Compound. J Am Chem Soc. 2015 Jul 29; 137(29):9382-9.
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Anchoring of surface proteins to the cell wall of Staphylococcus aureus. III. Lipid II is an in vivo peptidoglycan substrate for sortase-catalyzed surface protein anchoring. J Biol Chem. 2002 May 03; 277(18):16241-8.