Glycosaminoglycans disaccharides

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The Glycosaminoglycans Found in Proteoglycans Are Built Up of Repeating Disaccharides... 

Disaccharide Repeating Units in the Regular Regions of Glycosaminoglycans. 

Chapter 12 Metabolism of Monosaccharides and Disaccharides 135 Chapter 13 Pentose Phosphate Pathway and NADPH 143 Chapter 14 Glycosaminoglycans and Glycoproteins 155... 

Figure 4-11 The repeating disaccharide units of hyaluronan and other glycosaminoglycans. See Fransson108 and Hardingham and Fosang.107...

Glycosaminoglycans. Long, unbranched polysaccharide chains composed of repeating disaccharide subunits in which one of the two sugars is either /V-acetylglucosamine or /V-acetylgalac-tosamine. 

Glycosaminoglycans (GAGs) are unbranched chains having repeating disaccharide units, which, with the exception of keratan sulfate, contain an acid and a base. The KS disaccharide unit consists of a hexose and a base. The structures of the different classes of GAG disaccharide units are given in Fig. 1, and summarized in Table I. 

Fig. 1.—Structure of Different Disaccharide Units of Glycosaminoglycans (GAGs).

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