muco-series

noun

A class of glycosphingolipids containing the sequence Galβ(1,3)Galβ(1,4)Galβ(1,4)Glcβ-Cer (galactose, galactose, galactose, glucose, ceramide)

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alternative mucoseries · alternative muco series

  1. A class of glycosphingolipids containing the sequence Galβ(1,3)Galβ(1,4)Galβ(1,4)Glcβ-Cer (galactose, galactose, galactose, glucose, ceramide)

    A neutral glycosphingolipid (GSL) that is the common precursor of the ganglio-, globo-, globoiso-, lacto-, neolacto-, and muco-series of GSL.

    2002, Calbiochem ... General Catalog, page 374
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    Several hundred eukaryotic cell surface glycolipid structures are known, and they belong to different core saccharide series such as the lacto-, the ganglio-, the globo-, or the muco-series.

    2000, Pascale Cossart, Cellular Microbiology, →ISBN, page 60

    Except for members of the muco–series that have so far only been reported from the laboratory of Slomiany (for review, see (10)), gangliosides belonging to all other carbohydrate series present in vertebrates have been characterised.

    2013, Hinrich Rahmann, Gangliosides and Modulation of Neuronal Functions, →ISBN, page 41
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