Biological macromolecules monosaccharides

This chapter is organized around the four major classes of biological macromolecules. Recognize what most macromolecules have in common They are assembled from simple monomer units. Proteins are assembled from amino acids, carbohydrates are assembled from monosaccharides, and nucleic acids are assembled from nucleotides. Lipid is a catchall classification that includes fats, oils, phospholipids, waxes, steroids, and some other molecules. Organize your study into these four categories. 

Structural elucidation of natural macromolecules is an important step in understanding the relationships between the chemical properties of a biomolecule and its biological function. The techniques used in organic structure determination (NMR, IR, UV, and MS) are quite useful when applied to biomolecules, but the unique nature of natural molecules also requires the application of specialized chemical techniques. Proteins, polysaccharides, and nucleic acids are polymeric materials, each composed of hundreds or sometimes thousands of monomeric units (amino acids, monosaccharides, and nucleotides, respectively). But there is only a limited number of these types of units from which the biomolecules are synthesized. For example, only 20 different amino acids are found in proteins but these different amino acids may appear several times in the same protein molecule. Therefore, the structure of... 

Macromolecules that are formed from number of monosaccharide units connected together by glycosidic Hnkages are polysaccharides. They own special biological... 

Polysaccharides are macromolecules formed from many monosaccharide units joined together by glycosidic linkages and they have unique biological functions ranging from cell signaling to immune recognition [23]. 

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