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muco-series

muco-series noun: a class of glycosphingolipids containing the sequence Galβ(1,3)Galβ(1,4)Galβ(1,4)Glcβ-Cer (galactose, galactose, galactose, glucose, ceramide).

Noun

muco-series

  1. A class of glycosphingolipids containing the sequence Galβ(1,3)Galβ(1,4)Galβ(1,4)Glcβ-Cer (galactose, galactose, galactose, glucose, ceramide)
    • Several hundred eukaryotic cell surface glycolipid structures are known, and they belong to different core saccharide series such as the lacto-, the ganglio-, the globo-, or the muco-series.2000, Pascale Cossart, Cellular Microbiology, →ISBN, page 60
    • A neutral glycosphingolipid (GSL) that is the common precursor of the ganglio-, globo-, globoiso-, lacto-, neolacto-, and muco-series of GSL.2002, Calbiochem ... General Catalog, page 374

Forms of muco-series

alternative formmucoseries
alternative formmuco series

Questions about muco-series

What does muco-series mean?
Muco-series means a class of glycosphingolipids containing the sequence Galβ(1,3)Galβ(1,4)Galβ(1,4)Glcβ-Cer (galactose, galactose, galactose, glucose, ceramide).
What part of speech is muco-series?
Muco-series is a noun.

Words near muco-series in the dictionary

  1. mucky-pup
  2. mucky-pups
  3. mucluc
  4. muclucs
  5. muco-
  6. muco-series
  7. mucoactive
  8. mucoadherent
  9. mucoadhesion
  10. mucoadhesive
  11. mucoadhesiveness

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