Sialic acid
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sialic-acid-213-2783910
title:
Sialic acid
text:
Sialic acids are a class of alpha-keto acid sugars with a nine-carbon backbone. The term "sialic acid" was first introduced by Swedish biochemist Gunnar Blix in 1952. The most common member of this group is N-acetylneuraminic acid found in animals and some prokaryotes. Sialic acids are found widely distributed in animal tissues and related forms are found to a lesser extent in other organisms like in some micro-algae, bacteria and archaea. Sialic acids are commonly part of glycoproteins, glycoli
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description:
Class of keto acid sugars
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sialic_acid
date created:
2004-03-11T22:56:06Z
date modified:
2024-09-12T09:06:44Z
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