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Class: glycan

A macromolecule consisting of a large number of monosaccharides linked glycosidically

URI: chemrof:Glycan

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Identifier prefixes

  • KEGG.GLYCAN
  • GlyTouCan
  • Glycosciences.DB

Parents

  • is_a: Macromolecule - A large molecule, such as a polymer, lipid, or macrocycle

Attributes

Inherited from macromolecule:

Other properties

Aliases: polysaccharides
Comments: Glycans composed of a single type of monosaccharide residue (homopolysaccharide, synonym homoglycan) are named by replacing the ending '-ose' of the sugar by '-an', e.g. mannans, fructans, xylans, arabinans
Examples: Example(value='https://www.glycoepitope.jp/epitopes/EP0311', description='GalNAc(b1-4)[Neu5Ac(a2-3)]Gal(b1)')