Fucose as a nutrient ligand for Dikarya and a building block of early diverging lineages

Abstract Fucose is a deoxyhexose sugar present and studied in mammals. The process of fucosylation has been the primary focus in studies relating to fucose in animals due to the presence of fucose in Lewis antigens. Very few studies have reported its presence in Fungi, mostly in Mucoromycotina. The...

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Main Authors: Małgorzata Orłowska, Drishtee Barua, Sebastian Piłsyk, Anna Muszewska
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2023-09-01
Series:IMA Fungus
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s43008-023-00123-8