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. 2018 May 5;8(2):23. doi: 10.3390/biom8020023

Figure 1.

Figure 1

Chemical structures of monosaccharide units of bacterial polysaccharides used in this study [28,29]. (a) Both capsular polysaccharides contain α-2,8 linked sialic acid; and (b) the α-1,4 linked galactose-sialic acid heteropolymer. R in each figure represents potential sites of acetylation in vivo.