Biochemistry exam 4 peptidoglycans
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what is peptidoglycan made up of
covalently linked polysaccharide and polypeptide chains
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what contains peptidoglycan
bacterial cell walls
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what is the polysaccharide part of peptidoglycan made of
alternating NAM and NAG units
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What does NAM do in peptidoglycan
forms amide bond with short peptide
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what do short peptides allow in peptidoglycan
for neighboring peptidoglycan chains to crosslink
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what do D-amino acids in peptidoglycan do
make them resistant to proteases
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what are proteases in peptidoglycan specific to
L-amino acids, excluding lysozyme
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