Meanings
nounneobiosamine (countable and uncountable, plural neobiosamines)
plural neobiosamines
- countableuncountablechemistryAny isomer of the disaccharide moiety present in the antibiotic glycoside neomycin.
Reduction of neobiosamine C followed by hydrolysis gives ribitol.
1964, Hamao Umezawa, Recent Advances in Chemistry and Biochemistry of Antibiotics, page 711 more example
Properties of the isomeric neobiosamines and of their methyl glycosides are summarized in Table 2.1.
1964, Kenneth L. Rinehart, The Neomycins and Related Antibiotics, page 7
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