glycanation

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noun

The formation of glycans

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Meanings

nounglycanation (uncountable)
  1. uncountablebiochemistryThe formation of glycans

    This observation highlighted a potential crucial discrepancy in the glycanation pattern of human aggrecan isoforms deposited in the PNNs versus ECM of the CNS, as well as in aggrecan molecules assembled in cartilage matrices.

    2009 February 11, Daniela Virgintino et al., “Differential distribution of aggrecan isoforms in perineuronal nets of the human cerebral cortex”, in Journal of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, volume 13, →DOI

Origin

From glycan + -ation.

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