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DISACCHARIDE

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Any of a variety of carbohydrates that yield two monosaccharide molecules on complete hydrolysis

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Nouns denoting substances

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)

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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)