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SUBMITTER: Im J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5187581 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Im JongOne J Biswas Sovan S Liu Hao H Zhao Yanan Y Sen Suman S Biswas Sudipta S Ashcroft Brian B Borges Chad C Wang Xu X Lindsay Stuart S Zhang Peiming P
Nature communications 20161221
Carbohydrates are one of the four main building blocks of life, and are categorized as monosaccharides (sugars), oligosaccharides and polysaccharides. Each sugar can exist in two alternative anomers (in which a hydroxy group at C-1 takes different orientations) and each pair of sugars can form different epimers (isomers around the stereocentres connecting the sugars). This leads to a vast combinatorial complexity, intractable to mass spectrometry and requiring large amounts of sample for NMR cha ...[more]