N-Glycolylneuraminic acid
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Evolution
N-glycolyl-neuraminic acid is a sialic acidexpressed in apes. [1]. It is absent in human tissues because of inactivation of gene encoding CMP-N-acetylneuraminic acid hydroxylase [2]