polyglucan

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noun

Any polysaccharide containing glucan units

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Meanings

nounpolyglucan (plural polyglucans)

plural polyglucans

  1. biochemistryAny polysaccharide containing glucan units

    It has a structural fold termed GT-B and a retaining mechanism of glucose transfer giving an α-configuration of the growing polyglucan chain (http://www.cazy.org/ ).

    2015 September 15, “The Role of Cysteine Residues in Redox Regulation and Protein Stability of Arabidopsis thaliana Starch Synthase 1”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Origin

From poly- + glucan.

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