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Fucose

(also 6-deoxy-galactose), a monosaccharide of the de-oxyhexose class. Fucose is found in many natural compounds, in which it occurs mainly in the L-form. It is found in the L-form, for example, in certain bacterial and plant polysaccharides, in oligosaccharides in milk, and in glycoproteins including substances of blood groups. D-fucose is a component of certain plant glycosides. L-fucose has the structural formula

Enzymes known as fucosidases split the fucose radical from polysaccharide molecules.

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The sugar symbols: diamond (magenta) = sialic acid, circle (yellow) = galactose, square (blue) = GlcNAc, circle (green) = mannose, triangle (magenta) = fucose.

Comparative Glycopeptide Analysis for Protein Glycosylation by Liquid Chromatography and Tandem Mass Spectrometry: Variation in Glycosylation Patterns of Site-Directed Mutagenized Glycoprotein

Various amounts of neutral sugars are attached to these regions as side chains, including fucose, rhamnose, arabinose, galactose, and xylose.

Modification of Cell Wall Polysaccharides during Drying Process Affects Texture Properties of Apple Chips

[8] also found that APS mainly consist of glucose, rhamnose, xylose, and galactose, which is inconsistent with our results in that the monosaccharides of APS consisted of rhamnose, arabinose, fucose, sugar, mannose, glucose, and galactose.

Structural Characterization, Antioxidant Activity, and Biomedical Application of Astragalus Polysaccharide Degradation Products

Fucosylated N-glycans of human bone marrow MSCs bear at least two or more fucose residues, one of which is a core fucose that is a1,6-linked to the asparagine-linked GlcNAc residue of the N-glycans (73).

Cell Surface Sialylated N-Glycan Alterations during Development

Positive bands of core fucose were present in the PDGFRa and PDGFR[sz] immunoprecipitates [Figure 5], indicating their modification by CF.

Blocking Posttranslational Core Fucosylation Ameliorates Rat Peritoneal Mesothelial Cell Epithelial-Mesenchymal Transition

The standards rhamnose, fucose, arabinose, xylose, mannose, galactose and glucose were obtained from Merck, together with hydrochloric acid, sulphuric acid, acetic acid, acetic acid anhydride, ammonium hydroxide, potassium hydroxide, sodium sulphate, potassium borohydride and 1-methylimidazol.

Composition of amino acids, fatty acids and dietary fibre monomers in kernels of Adansonia digitata and Sclerocarya birrea

R.sullae is characterized by the production of high molecular weight and low molecular weight EPS, the latter having a structure rich in fucose (30%), which increases the nodulation efficiency in the species.

Preliminary study of the properties of the plasmid pSym of the species Rhizobium sullae by the application of a bacterial conjugation with the species of Pseudomonas aeruginosa

Glucose, galactose, N-acetlyglucosamine, fucose, and sialic acid are the constituent parts of oligosaccharides.

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A band around 1457 [cm.sup.-1] was assigned to the scissoring vibration of C[H.sub.2] (galactose, xylose) and asymmetric bending vibration of C[H.sub.3] (fucose, O-acetyls).

Free radical scavenging activity of extracts from seaweeds Macrocystis pyrifera and Undaria pinnatfida: applications as functional food in the diet of prawn Artemesia longinaris

A positive correlation was observed by H5 and H8, linking protease production with their abilities to utilize arabinose, ribose, xylose, sorbose, mannitol, mannoside, starch, glycogen, and fucose (P < 0.05).

Isolation and Characterization of Thermophilic Bacteria from Jordanian Hot Springs: Bacillus licheniformis and Thermomonas hydrothermalis Isolates as Potential Producers of Thermostable Enzymes

Chemical composition of Ecklonia cava Items Component (%) Moisture 8.89 [+ or -] 0.30 Crude protein 11.30 [+ or -] 0.63 Crude fiber 31.00 [+ or -] 0.72 Crude lipid 1.25 [+ or -] 0.19 Crude ash 15.60 [+ or -] 0.57 Carbohydrate 32.47 [+ or -] 0.57 Sulfate 7.88 [+ or -] 0.70 Fucoidan 11.2 [+ or -] 0.60 Proportion of monosaccharides (%) Fucose 47.01 [+ or -] 1.24 Rhamnose 1.45 [+ or -] 0.38 Galactose 22.05 [+ or -] 0.27 Glucose 9.71 [+ or -] 0.10 Mannose 4.74 [+ or -] 0.65 Xylose 13.96 [+ or -] 1.02 Table 3.

Effects of Ecklonia cava as fucoidan-rich algae on growth performance, nutrient digestibility, intestinal morphology and caecal microflora in weanling pigs