MeSH

The N-acetyl derivative of glucosamine.

Year introduced: 1991(1975)

Cell surface receptors that bind to ACETYLGLUCOSAMINE.

Year introduced: 2003

Serves as the biological precursor of insect chitin, of muramic acid in bacterial cell walls, and of sialic acids in mammalian glycoproteins.

Year introduced: 1991(1975)

Mucopolysaccharidosis characterized by heparitin sulfate in the urine, progressive mental retardation, mild dwarfism, and other skeletal disorders. There are four clinically indistinguishable but biochemically distinct forms, each due to a deficiency of a different enzyme.

Year introduced: 1992

The A protein of the lactose synthase complex. In the presence of the B protein (LACTALBUMIN) specificity is changed from N-acetylglucosamine to glucose. EC 2.4.1.90.

Year introduced: 1992

fibroblasts from patients with I-cell (mucolipidosis II) & pseudo-Hurler polydystrophy (mucolipidosis III) are deficient in above enzyme; for N-acetylglucosamine transferred to dolichyl phosphate see EC 2.7.8.15

Date introduced: June 19, 1981

transfers N-acetylglucosamine 1-phosphate from UDP-N-acetylglucosamine to dolichyl phosphate, forming N-acetylglucosaminylpyrophosphoryldolichol

Date introduced: January 1, 1979

forms UDP-N-acetylglucosamine from N-acetylglucosamine- 1-phosphate and UTP; also catalyzes acetylation of glucosamine-1-phosphate

Date introduced: January 1, 1974

Enzymes that catalyze the transfer of N-acetylglucosamine from a nucleoside diphosphate N-acetylglucosamine to an acceptor molecule which is frequently another carbohydrate. EC 2.4.1.-.

Year introduced: 1993

catalyzes the formation of N-acetylmannosamine & UDP from UDP N-acetylglucosamine; minor descriptor (75-82); online & Index Medicus search CARBOHYDRATE ISOMERASES (75-82); minor descriptor (75-82); file maintained to CARBOHYDRATE ISOMERASES

Date introduced: October 22, 1982

E coli enzyme involved in Lipid A biosynthesis; uses beta-hydroxymyristoyl-acyl carrier protein to form UDP-3-monoacyl-N-acetylglucosamine; see also hydroxydecanoyl-ACP-dependent UDP-GlcNAc acyltransferase; amino acid sequence given in second source

Date introduced: November 7, 1986

MW 180,000 high affinity lectin found in rat liver

Date introduced: August 23, 1982

NAGPA (EC 3.1.4.45), also known as the uncovering enzyme, is localized in the trans-Golgi network, where it removes a covering N-acetylglucosamine from the mannose 6-phosphate recognition marker on lysosomal acid hydrolases; RefSeq NM_016256 (human)

Date introduced: October 29, 1980

RefSeq NM_017567 (human)

Date introduced: January 1, 1970

a UDP-N-acetylglucosamine diphosphorylase that catalyzes the conversion of UTP and N-acetylglucosamine-1-phosphate to pyrophosphate and UDP-N-acetylglucosamine; involved in nervous system development

Date introduced: January 10, 2007

member of the alpha-D-phosphohexomutase superfamily; catalyzes the conversion of N-acetylglucosamine 6-phosphate into N-acetylglucosamine 1-phosphate

Date introduced: August 17, 2006

permeability and cell division gene product that catalyzes deacetylation in second enzymatic step of Lipid A biosynthesis; do not confuse with EnvA protein from Chlamydia psittaci

Date introduced: January 26, 1996

responsible for the addition of O-linked N-acetylglucosamine to proteins

Date introduced: March 20, 1990

UDP-diacyl-N-acetylglucosamine plus 2,3-diacyl-N-acetylglucosamine-1-phosphate yields 2',3'-diacyl-GlcN-(beta 1-6)-2,3-diacyl-GlcN-1-P plus UDP

Date introduced: November 7, 1986

Date introduced: July 6, 1983