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Specialty Chemistry Forums => Biochemistry and Chemical Biology Forum => Topic started by: zzoul on February 01, 2007, 04:21:27 AM
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What is the process through which monosaccharides form disaccharides and/or polysaccharides?
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Two terms are used: glycosylation (more general), and glycosidation (blycosidic bond between sugars)
http://www.usm.maine.edu/~newton/Chy251_253/Lectures/CarbohydratesIII/CarbohydratesIII.html
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Basically, condensation between monomers of the monosaccharide to form glycosidic bond(s).