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CHEBI ONTOLOGY - ANNOTATIONS

The Chemical Entities of Biological Interest (ChEBI) ontology is downloaded weekly from EMBL-EBI at http://www.ebi.ac.uk/chebi/. The data is made available under the Creative Commons License (CC BY 3.0, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/). For more information see: Degtyarenko et al. (2008) ChEBI: a database and ontology for chemical entities of biological interest. Nucleic Acids Res. 36, D344–D350.

Term:teichoic acid
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Accession:CHEBI:30049 term browser browse the term
Definition:Bacterial polysaccharide derivatives of glycerol phosphate or ribitol phosphate linked via phosphodiester bonds, whose main function is to fortify the cell wall. In some parasites, they serve as a site of attachment to mucosal membranes.
Synonyms:related_synonym: TAs;   teichoic acids
 alt_id: CHEBI:26866;   CHEBI:9431
 xref: KEGG:C06707;   PMID:18327271;   PMID:19229300;   PMID:19899094;   Wikipedia:Teichoic_acid



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  CHEBI ontology 0
    chemical entity 0
      molecular entity 0
        polyatomic entity 0
          macromolecule 0
            biomacromolecule 0
              polysaccharide derivative 0
                teichoic acid 0
                  2-O-alanyl-4-O-substituted-D-ribitol teichoic acid 0
                  lipoteichoic acid + 0
                  poly(glucopyranosyl N-acetylgalactosamine 1-phosphate) teichoic acid 0
                  poly(glucosyl N-acetylgalactosamine 1-phosphate) teichoic acid 0
                  poly(glycerol phosphate) teichoic acid 0
                  poly(ribitol phosphate) teichoic acid 0
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  CHEBI ontology 0
    subatomic particle 0
      composite particle 0
        hadron 0
          baryon 0
            nucleon 0
              atomic nucleus 0
                atom 0
                  main group element atom 0
                    p-block element atom 0
                      carbon group element atom 0
                        carbon atom 0
                          organic molecular entity 0
                            heteroorganic entity 0
                              organochalcogen compound 0
                                organooxygen compound 0
                                  carbohydrates and carbohydrate derivatives 0
                                    carbohydrate 0
                                      polysaccharide 0
                                        polysaccharide derivative 0
                                          teichoic acid 0
                                            2-O-alanyl-4-O-substituted-D-ribitol teichoic acid 0
                                            lipoteichoic acid + 0
                                            poly(glucopyranosyl N-acetylgalactosamine 1-phosphate) teichoic acid 0
                                            poly(glucosyl N-acetylgalactosamine 1-phosphate) teichoic acid 0
                                            poly(glycerol phosphate) teichoic acid 0
                                            poly(ribitol phosphate) teichoic acid 0
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