O-glycosidic bond

From The School of Biomedical Sciences Wiki
Jump to navigation Jump to search
The printable version is no longer supported and may have rendering errors. Please update your browser bookmarks and please use the default browser print function instead.

The bond between a sugar and another molecule, usually another sugar, to create oligosaccharides. The chemical bond is formed by a condensation reaction, the hydroxyl group on the sugar reacts with the other molecule forming a glycosidic bond and releasing a molecule of water. For example, the disaccharide maltose consists of two D-glucose residues which are joined by a glycosidic bond between the alpha-anomeric form of C1 on one of the glucose molecules and the hydroxyl oxygen atom on C4 of the adjacent glucose molecule [1].

References

  1. ↑ Berg, J, Tymoczko, J and Stryer, L (2012). Biochemistry. 7th ed. Basinstoke: W. H Freeman and Company. p337.
Retrieved from "https://teaching.ncl.ac.uk/bms/wiki//index.php?title=O-glycosidic_bond&oldid=14512"