Chemicals and Drugs

Guanosine Diphosphate Mannose

A nucleoside diphosphate sugar which can be converted to the deoxy sugar GDPfucose, which provides fucose for lipopolysaccharides of bacterial cell walls. Also acts as mannose donor for glycolipid synthesis.

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Abstract

A nucleoside diphosphate sugar which can be converted to the deoxy sugar GDPfucose, which provides fucose for lipopolysaccharides of bacterial cell walls. Also acts as mannose donor for glycolipid synthesis.

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Synonyms

9 entry terms
  • GDP Mannose
  • Guanosine Diphosphomannose
  • Guanosine Pyrophosphate Mannose
  • Diphosphate Mannose, Guanosine
  • Diphosphomannose, Guanosine
  • Mannose, GDP
  • Mannose, Guanosine Diphosphate
  • Mannose, Guanosine Pyrophosphate
  • Pyrophosphate Mannose, Guanosine

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29 allowable subheadings

Indexed with the subheadings administration & dosage, adverse effects, agonists, analogs & derivatives, analysis, antagonists & inhibitors, biosynthesis, blood, cerebrospinal fluid, chemical synthesis, chemistry, classification, deficiency, economics, genetics, history, immunology, isolation & purification, metabolism, pharmacokinetics, pharmacology, physiology, poisoning, radiation effects, standards, supply & distribution, therapeutic use, toxicity, urine.

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Indexing Annotation

/biosyn /physiol permitted

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History Note

91(75); was see under NUCLEOSIDE DIPHOSPHATE SUGARS 1975-90

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Previous Indexing

  • Guanine Nucleotides (1973-1974)
  • Mannose (1973-1974)
  • Nucleoside Diphosphate Sugars (1973-1974)

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Guanosine Diphosphate Mannose. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D006155. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D006155
  2. Guanosine Diphosphate Mannose. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guanosine_diphosphate_mannose
  3. Guanosine Diphosphate Mannose. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q217404