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Peptidoglycan

 ... Biology Level of organization of bodies Molecular biology Protein Type of protein Glycoprotein
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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
Figure 1.
Peptidoglycan polymer structure
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