Forms the bacterial cell wall.
From the Wikipedia image we can see clearly the polymer structure formed: it is a mesh with:
- sugar covalent bond chains in one direction. These have two types of monosaccharide, NAM and NAG
- peptide chains on the other, and only coming off from NAM
Peptidoglycan polymer structure
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