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Polysaccharides

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Conformation of Biological Molecules

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Polysaccharides and carbohydrates are polymers containing some simple sugars as repeating units. The most common sugars are D-glucose, D-mannose, D-fucose, D-galactose and a few substituted sugars such as D-N-acetylglucosamine, D-O-acetylsugar etc. Condensation of the sugars can occur in several different ways, depending on the hydroxy groups involved in glycosidic linkage. One of the hydroxy groups always participating in the condensation is that at Cl. The linkages are termed as 1 → 2, 1 → 3, 1 → 4, and 1 → 6, depending on whether two sugar units are joined at 1 and 2, 1 and 3, 1 and 4 or 1 and 6 positions respectively (for numbering see Fig. 5.1.1). In some carbohydrates, phosphate groups are also involved in the linkages. Several books on primary structures of carbohydrates (see for example [1096]) are available.

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Govil, G., Hosur, R.V. (1982). Polysaccharides. In: Conformation of Biological Molecules. NMR Basic Principles and Progress, vol 20. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-68097-7_5

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