C polysaccharide

... resist attachment of complement to their cellular surfaces, and can evade these mechanisms of the host immune system. However, the bacterial polysaccharide is directly antigenic, so antibody response against different capsular polysaccharides will eventually be built by the host, rendering ...

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Eukaryotes: Animalia - No cell wall Plantae - Cellulose Fungi - Chitin Protoctista - Sometimes a cell wall, polysaccharide Prokaryotes: Bacteria - Peptidoglycan Archaea - Sometimes a cell wall, but never peptidoglycan If you accidentally had Caps Lock on, I apologise for the ...

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Hello all, I'm currently involved in a research that deals with polysaccharides degradation/utilization by bacteria in the human gut. I used a tool called pSORTb which predicts the cellular localization of proteins. In the results I get, many enzymes which ...

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I'm really appreciate it dear Daniel.kurz.

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So I went back to my biochemistry textbook to find the exact wording that will satisfy everyone. I was using an incomplete explanation. The way that it goes is that the anomeric carbon (the carbon adjacent to the oxygen in the sugar ring is the one that makes the ketone group in the open ring form a...

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