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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: Appl Microbiol Biotechnol. 2012 Apr 13;94(4):887–905. doi: 10.1007/s00253-012-4040-1

Figure 3.

Figure 3

Sialyltransferases catalyze the transfer of sialic acid from CMP-sialic acid to a suitable acceptor, commonly a Gal, GalNAc, or Sia terminated glycan or glycoconjugates. The most common sialic acid form, Neu5Ac, is shown as an example. R, glycans or glycoconjugates; R′, Neu5Ac- or Gal-terminated glycans or glycoconjugates.