Description
N-acetylmuramic acid is a component of the bacterial cell wall peptidoglycan and is essential for maintaining cell shape and integrity. N-acetylmuramic acid inhibits spore germination by inhibiting shell associated amino-hexanosidase and core enzyme. N-acetylmuramic acid is necessary for Bacteroides forsythe to grow and maintain its cell morphologyComponent of peptidoglycan in bacterial cell walls. Peptidoglycan is a mesh-like polymer, made of a glycan backbone containing alternating subunits of Nâ acetylglucosamine (GlcNAc) and Nâ acetylmuramic acid (MurNAc). An enzyme substrate that is used to characterize and differentiate MurNAc and GlcNAc kinases. application：N-Acetylmuramic acid (NAMA), a lactic acid ether derivative of N-acetylglucosamine found in bacterial cell wall proteoglycans, is used as a substrate to identify, differentiate and characterize N-acetylmuramic acid/N-acetylglucosamine kinase(s) and N-acetylmuramic acid etherase(s)