Metabolism sialidase substrate

Sialic acids as such, sialic acid derivatives, analogues, glycosides and sialo-oligosaccharides have been subject of many synthetic investigations. These studies were aimed at a further exploration of the properties of sialic acids, the preparation of substrates and inhibitors for sialidases, sialyltransferases or for sialic acid converting enzymes, and to make compounds accessable for analytical purposes or for studies related to metabolism or biological functions of sialic acids. 

Corfield, A. P., Michalski, J.-C., and Schauer, R., 1981a, The substrate specificity of sialidases from microorganisms and mammals, in Sialidases and Sialidoses Perspectives in Inherited Metabolic Diseases, Vol. 4 (G. Tettamanti, P. Durand, and S. Di Donato, eds.), Edi Ermes, Milan, pp. 3-70. 

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