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DISACCHARIDE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any of a variety of carbohydrates that yield two monosaccharide molecules on complete hydrolysis
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("disaccharide" is a kind of...):
oligosaccharide (any of the carbohydrates that yield only a few monosaccharide molecules on complete hydrolysis)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "disaccharide"):
lactose; milk sugar (a sugar comprising one glucose molecule linked to a galactose molecule; occurs only in milk)
malt sugar; maltose (a white crystalline sugar formed during the digestion of starches)
saccharose; sucrose (a complex carbohydrate found in many plants and used as a sweetening agent)
Context examples:
Galactose is a hexose sugar found in the disaccharide lactose.
(Leloir Pathway of Galactose Metabolism, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)
Keratan sulfate (KS) is a glycosaminoglycan with the basic disaccharide unit of N-acetyllactosamine, Gal(b1-4)GlcNAc(b1-3), with sulfate esters at C-6 of GlcNAc and Gal residues.
(Glycosaminoglycan Biosynthesis Pathway - Keratan Sulfate, NCI Thesaurus/KEGG)
Chondroitin sulfate (CS) is a glycosaminoglycan with the disaccharide unit GalNAc(b1-4)GlcA(b1-3), modified with ester-linked sulfate at certain positions.
(Glycosaminoglycan Biosynthesis Pathway - Chondroitin Sulfate, NCI Thesaurus/KEGG)
This allele, which encodes exostosin-like 1 protein, is involved in the synthesis of the repeating disaccharide region of heparin/heparin sulfate.
(EXTL1 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)
A lipophilic disaccharide tripeptide derivative of muramyl dipeptide (MDP) with immunomodulatory activity.
(Disaccharide Tripeptide Glycerol Dipalmitoyl, NCI Thesaurus)
Astromicin contains an epi-purpurosamine disaccharide backbone.
(Astromicin, NCI Thesaurus)
A preparation of glycosphingolipids (GSL), containing the disaccharide epitope galactose-alpha-1,3-galactose (alpha-Gal), with potential antineoplastic activity.
(Alpha-Gal Glycosphingolipids, NCI Thesaurus)
Fructose is an abundant monosaccharide in fruit, and is also found along with glucose in the common disaccharide sucrose.
(Feeder Pathways for Glycolysis, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)
Camiglibose binds to and inhibits alpha-glucosidase, an enteric enzyme found in the brush border of the small intestines that hydrolyzes oligosaccharides and disaccharides into glucose and other monosaccharides.
(Camiglibose, NCI Thesaurus)
Acarbose binds to and inhibits alpha-glucosidase, an enteric enzyme found in the brush border of the small intestines that hydrolyzes oligosaccharides and disaccharides into glucose and other monosaccharides.
(Acarbose, NCI Thesaurus)
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