| http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#value | - Their names are N-acetylglucosamine and N-acetylemuramic acid, but we can call them NAG and NAM. Bacteria synthesise long linear chains of these two sugars, alternating between a NAG and a NAM.Attached to each NAM, however, is a chain of a few amino acids (an oligopeptide). [Interestingly, these amino acids are not found in proteins, and this may allow them to escape degradation by our most common
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