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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Apr 5.
Published in final edited form as: Expert Rev Vaccines. 2007 Oct;6(5):821–834. doi: 10.1586/14760584.6.5.821

Fig. 1.

Fig. 1

Pathways for the biosynthesis of the common a-, b-, and c-series of gangliosides. Synthesis of the various gangliosides involves the sequential activities of two types of enzymes: sialyltransferases (noted in solid lines) and glycosyltransferases (noted in dotted lines). Modified from - The Lipid Library. “Gangliosides: Structure, occurrence, biology and analysis”. http://www.lipidlibrary.co.uk/Lipids/gang/. Copyright of W.W. Christie and/ where stated The Oily Press Ltd or others. Mr. Christie can be contacted by email at William.Christie@scri.ac.uk.