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Biochemistry Disaccharides
Sugars can build on each other to form chains. The simplest chain is a disaccharide containing two monosaccharides which are covalently bonded to each other via an O-glycosidic bond, which forms when the hydroxy group of a sugar reacts with the anomeric carbon on another sugar in a condensation reaction. Disaccharides are named according to their components and the pattern of their arrangement. Sugars also have three-letter abbreviations, just like the amino acids, and these can be used to name longer sugar chains such as Glc-alpha(1 → 4)Glc. It is very important to be familiar with different representations of these structures and be comfortable reproducing them, so this lecture covers the “flip” and “spin” versions of trehalose, a non-reducing sugar, where one monomer is rotated relative to the other.
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Post by Jenika Javier on October 12, 2014
how do we identify the reducing end?
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Wed Oct 1, 2014 5:57 PM
Post by Torrey Poon on October 1, 2014
Hi Prof. Hovasapian, are all 1-1 linked disaccharides non-reducing sugars?
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Fri Feb 14, 2014 2:00 AM
Post by Alan Delez on February 13, 2014
Hi Professor Hovasapian, so in this lecture we learn that the importance of the anomeric carbon is when monohydrates form glyosidic bonds?
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Wed Sep 18, 2013 3:18 AM
Post by Archimedes S on September 17, 2013
Hi Prof. Hovasapian. I am confused how the spin and the flip to form trehalose can result in the same molecule even though they result in different orientations in space. Is this because the carbons attached to the oxygen in the glycosidic bond can freely rotate?