polysaccharide
IPA: pɑɫisˈækɝaɪd
noun
- (biochemistry) A polymer made of many saccharide units linked by glycosidic bonds.
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Examples of "polysaccharide" in Sentences
- Polysaccharide degrading activity.
- Vi capsular polysaccharide vaccine.
- Pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine.
- Cellulose is a type of polysaccharide.
- Equine polysaccharide storage myopathy.
- It is a form of a storage polysaccharide.
- Polysaccharides are enormously dependant on the glucose.
- Cellulose and chitin are examples of structural polysaccharides.
- The pneumococcal polysaccharide is linked to a harmless protein.
- It is prepared by reaction of the polysaccharide with epichlorohydrin.
- Carbonylation of a polysaccharide and the product of that carbonylation.
- The "polysaccharide" vaccine is made from the sugar that coats the surface of the bacteria.
- The "polysaccharide" vaccine is given as a single shot to children between 2 years and 6 years of age.
- A polysaccharide is a carbohydrate composed of many single sugar molecules bonded to each other, to be clear.
- Like the Hib vaccine, the pneumococcal vaccine is made from the sugar coating (polysaccharide) of the bacteria.
- A meningococcal vaccine, made using only the polysaccharide coating of meningococcus, has been available for several years.
- Ultraviolet light breaks open chitosan, a complex carbohydrate called a polysaccharide, revealing another set of reactive arms.
- The first example of the fundamental role of the sugar nucleotides in polysaccharide biosynthesis was found by Leloir in 1959 in the case of glycogen.
- The authoritative book discusses polysaccharides utilized in medical applications such as polysaccharide-based hydrogels, polysialic acids, proteoglycans, glycolipids, and anticoagulant polysaccharides; renewable resources for the production of various industrial chemicals and engineering plastics polysaccharides; and more.