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homopolysaccharide

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Glycans composed of a single type of monosaccharide residue. They are named by replacing the ending '-ose' of the sugar by '-an'.

Term info

Label

homopolysaccharide

Synonyms
  • homopolysaccharide
Subsets

3_STAR

IUPAC NAME
homopolysaccharide [ IUPAC ]

has obo namespace

chebi_ontology

has related synonym

homoglycan, homopolysaccharides

id

CHEBI:37164

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