AmiGO 2: Term Details for "sialic acid binding" (GO:0033691)

Accession: GO:0033691
Name: sialic acid binding
Ontology: molecular_function
Synonyms: N-acetylneuraminic acid binding
Alternate IDs: None
Definition: Binding to a sialic acid, a N- or O- substituted derivative of neuraminic acid, a nine carbon monosaccharide. Sialic acids often occur in polysaccharides, glycoproteins, and glycolipids in animals and bacteria. Source: GOC:add, ISBN:9780721601465
Comment: None
History: See term history for GO:0033691 at QuickGO
Chem. react.: None
Subset: None
Related: Link to all genes and gene products annotated to sialic acid binding (excluding "regulates").; Link to all direct and indirect annotations to sialic acid binding (excluding "regulates").; Link to all direct and indirect annotations download (limited to first 10,000) for sialic acid binding (excluding "regulates").

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For more information, please see the ontology relation documentation.

subject	relation	object
sialic acid binding	is_a	carboxylic acid binding (GO:0031406)
sialic acid binding	RO:0004009	sialic acid anion (CHEBI:62944)
sialic acid binding	is_a	carbohydrate derivative binding (GO:0097367)

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