Category:LBSG/NeuGc
NeuGc Distribution
NeuGc is consistently suppressed in vertebrate brains.
| Species | Serum | Red blood cell |
Submaxillary gland |
Liver | Kidney | Milk | Brain |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Human | － | － | nr | nr | － | － | － |
| Chimpanzee | nr | + + | nr | + | + | + | trace |
| Macaque | + | + | nr | nr | nr | + | － |
| Mouse | + | + | － | + + | nr | nr | trace |
| Rat | + | + | + | + | + | nr | trace |
| Rabbit | trace | + | nr | － | + | nr | － |
| Pig | nr | + + | + + | + | + | nr | trace |
| Cow | + + | + + | + | nr | ++ | trace | trace |
| Sheep | + | + + | trace | + | + | + + | trace |
| Elephant African | nr | nr | nr | + + | nr | + | nr |
| Elephant Asian | nr | nr | nr | + + | nr | － | nr |
| Dolphin | nr | nr | nr | + + | + + | + | trace |
| Horse | + | + + | trace | － | + | nr | trace |
| Chicken | － | － | － | － | － | － | － |
| Xenopus | nr | nr | nr | nr | nr | nr | － |
|
++: major fraction; +: minor fraction; -: absent; trace: present at 0.8-3%; nr: not reported | |||||||
- ↑ Davies LRL, Varki A "Why Is N-Glycolylneuraminic Acid Rare in the Vertebrate Brain?" Top Curr Chem 366:31-54, 2015 PMID 23471785
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