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asialogalactose

asialogalactose noun: a galactose moiety from which a sialic acid residue has been removed.

Noun

asialogalactose

  1. A galactose moiety from which a sialic acid residue has been removed.
    • The difference in relative ECL signals between S1Fc (72%) and S2Fc (5%) is because S1Fc contains one terminal asialogalactose to which the ECL-NA complex binds compared with the absence of free terminal asialogalactose in S2Fc ( Fig.2015, Karunya Srinivasan et al., “A Quantitative Microtiter Assay for Sialylated Glycoform Analyses Using Lectin Complexes”, in Journal of Biomolecular Screening, volume 20, →DOI

Origin of asialogalactose

From a- + sialo- + galactose.

Questions about asialogalactose

What does asialogalactose mean?
Asialogalactose means a galactose moiety from which a sialic acid residue has been removed.
What part of speech is asialogalactose?
Asialogalactose is a noun.

Words near asialogalactose in the dictionary

  1. asialism
  2. asialo-
  3. asialo-choriogonadotropin
  4. asialobiantennary
  5. asialofetuin
  6. asialogalactose
  7. asialogalactosylation
  8. asialoglycan
  9. asialoglycans
  10. asialoglycoprotein
  11. asialoglycoproteins

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