CHEBI:59640 - N-acetylglucosamine

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ChEBI Name N-acetylglucosamine
ChEBI ID CHEBI:59640
ChEBI ASCII Name N-acetylglucosamine
Definition An N-acylglucosamine where the N-acyl group is specified as acetyl.
Stars This entity has been manually annotated by the ChEBI Team.
Roles Classification
Biological Role(s): EC 2.7.1.1 (hexokinase) inhibitor
An EC 2.7.1.* (phosphotransferases with an alcohol group as acceptor) inhibitor that interferes with the action of hexokinase, EC 2.7.1.1, an enzyme that phosphorylates hexoses forming hexose phosphate.
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ChEBI Ontology
Outgoing N-acetylglucosamine (CHEBI:59640) has role EC 2.7.1.1 (hexokinase) inhibitor (CHEBI:78366)
N-acetylglucosamine (CHEBI:59640) is a N-acylglucosamine (CHEBI:21638)
Incoming aldehydo-N-acetyl-D-glucosamine (CHEBI:17411) is a N-acetylglucosamine (CHEBI:59640)
N-acetyl-D-glucosamine (CHEBI:506227) is a N-acetylglucosamine (CHEBI:59640)
Synonym Source
N-acetylglucosamines ChEBI
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Last Modified
06 January 2016