Incoming links: Monosaccharide
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
We define a "sugar" as either of:because these are small carbohydrates, and they taste sweet to humans.