Publication DOI:10.1016/j.mencom.2011.07.001 Journal NLM ID:9425965 Publisher: Moscow: Academy of Sciences of the USSR; Cambridge,UK : Royal Society of Chemistry Correspondence: knirelioc.ac.ru Institutions: N.D. Zelinsky Institute of Organic Chemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
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.