N-Acetyl-a-D-glucosamine is a useful research chemical compound.
N-Acetyl-α-D-glucosamine is a low energy, vivo animal, chemical biology, expressed, oligosaccharides, acceptor. It is an acetylated amino sugar that can be found in the cell membrane surface of bacteria and is also a protein target for acetylation.
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N-Acetyl-α-D-glucosamine has been shown to be involved in protein synthesis and growth factor activity. It has been used as a substrate for the production of monoclonal antibodies and has been shown to have stereoselective effects on the antibody response.
ChEBI: An N-acetyl-D-glucosamine that has alpha-configuration at the anomeric centre.
