Recent data on the natural occurrence, chemistry, and biochemistry of C8 and C9 aldulosonic acids (3-deoxy-d-manno-oct-2-ulosonic acid, sialic acids, N-acyl derivatives of 5,7-diamino-3,5,7,9-tetradeoxynon-2-ulosonic acids, and some others) as well as on the structures and biological significance of bacterial glycans containing these higher acidic monosaccharides are summarized.
structure, Bacterial, glycan, aldulosonic acid, higher acidic monosaccharides, sialic acids
Publication DOI: 10.1016/j.mencom.2011.07.001Journal NLM ID: 9425965Publisher: Moscow: Academy of Sciences of the USSR; Cambridge,UK : Royal Society of Chemistry
Correspondence: knirel@ioc.ac.ru
Institutions: N.D. Zelinsky Institute of Organic Chemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia