Nucleotide sugar

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Nucleotide sugars are biochemicals that act as donors of sugar residues in nucleotide sugars metabolism.^[1] They are substrates for glycosyltransferases.^[2]

[edit] List of nucleotide sugars

• UDP-N-acetylglucosamine
• UDP-apiose
• UDP-arabinose
• GDP-mannose
• ADP-galactose
• UDP-galactose
• GDP-galactose
• UDP-galacturonic acid
• ADP-glucose
• UDP-glucose
• GDP-glucose
• UDP-glucuronic acid
• UDP-xylose

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• MeSH "Nucleotide sugars" "Nucleotide sugars"

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