A peptidoglycosaminoglycan formed by alternating residues of β-(1→4)-linked N-acetylglucosamine and N-acetylmuramic acid {2-amino-3-O-[(S)-1-carboxyethyl]-2-deoxy-D-glucose} residues. Attached to the carboxy group of the muramic acid is a peptide chain of three to five amino acids.
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This entity has been manually annotated by the ChEBI Team.
