- muramic acid
- noun Etymology: Latin murus wall + English + glucosamine + 1-ic Date: 1957 an amino sugar C9H17NO7 that is a lactic acid derivative of glucosamine and is found especially in bacterial cell walls
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muramic acid
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Muramic acid — Preferred IUPAC name 2 [3 Amino 2,5 dihydroxy 6 (hydroxymethyl)oxan 4 yl]oxypropanoic acid … Wikipedia
muramic acid — muramo rūgštis statusas T sritis chemija apibrėžtis N acetilgliukozamino ir pieno rūgšties esteris. atitikmenys: angl. muramic acid rus. мурамовая кислота … Chemijos terminų aiškinamasis žodynas
muramic acid — 2 Amino 3 O (1 carboxyethyl) 2 deoxy d glucose; d glucosamine and lactate in ether linkage between the 3 and 2 positions, respectively; a constituent of the mureins in bacterial cell walls. * * * mu·ram·ic acid myu̇ .ram ik n an amino sugar… … Medical dictionary
muramic acid — noun A compound of glucosamine and lactic acid that occurs as a component of peptidoglycan … Wiktionary
muramic acid — myu̇ˌramə̇k noun Etymology: mur (from Latin murus wall) + glucosamine + ic : an amino sugar C9H17NO7 that is a lactic acid derivative of glucosamine and is found especially in bacterial cell walls and in blue green algae … Useful english dictionary
muramic acid — (= 3 O a carboxyethyl D glucosamine) Subunit of peptidoglycan of bacterial cell walls … Dictionary of molecular biology
N-acetyl muramic acid — Sugar unit of bacterial peptidoglycan, consisting of N acetyl glucosamine bearing an ether linked lactyl residue on carbon 3. Repeating unit of the cell wall polysaccharide is N acetyl muramic acid linked to N acetyl glucosamine via a b(1 4)… … Dictionary of molecular biology
muramic — adjective Of or pertaining to muramic acid or its derivatives … Wiktionary
N-Acetylmuramic acid — Identifiers CAS number 10597 89 4 … Wikipedia
bacteria — bacterial, adj. bacterially, adv. /bak tear ee euh/, n.pl., sing. bacterium / tear ee euhm/. ubiquitous one celled organisms, spherical, spiral, or rod shaped and appearing singly or in chains, comprising the Schizomycota, a phylum of the kingdom … Universalium
