glygoside
glygoside defined in 1951 year
glygoside - glygoside;glygoside - Compound yielding by enzymatic or acid hydrolysis a sugar (most frequently glucose) and one or more other substances. Widely distributed in plants, e.g. anthocyanins, amygdalin, sinigrin, digitalin, strophanthin, indican. Formation of some gly-cosides thought to render unwanted substances chemically inert; other functions ascribed to particular glycosides include formation of food reserves, control of invasion by pathogens. When the other substance is also a sugar, di- tri- or polysaccharides result.
near glygoside in Knolik
| glygosaminoglycan | home letter "G" start from "GL" | gnathostomata |
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