TETRASACCHARIDE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does tetrasaccharide mean? 

• TETRASACCHARIDE (noun)
  The noun TETRASACCHARIDE has 1 sense:

1. any of a variety of carbohydrates that yield four monosaccharide molecules on complete hydrolysis

  Familiarity information: TETRASACCHARIDE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TETRASACCHARIDE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of a variety of carbohydrates that yield four monosaccharide molecules on complete hydrolysis

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Hypernyms ("tetrasaccharide" is a kind of...):

oligosaccharide (any of the carbohydrates that yield only a few monosaccharide molecules on complete hydrolysis)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "tetrasaccharide"):

stachyose (a tetrasaccharide found in the tubers of the Chinese artichoke)

 Context examples 

CMD193 binds to the Lewis Y antigen, a tetrasaccharide expressed on the cell surfaces of many tumor cell types.

(Immunotoxin CMD-193, NCI Thesaurus)

The assembly process of CS is initiated by the transfer of N-acetylgalactosamine to the linkage tetrasaccharide.

(Glycosaminoglycan Biosynthesis Pathway - Chondroitin Sulfate, NCI Thesaurus/KEGG)

CS and DS are linked to serine residues in core proteins via a linkage tetrasaccharide formed by the transfer of xylose and three more residues.

(Glycosaminoglycan Biosynthesis Pathway - Chondroitin Sulfate, NCI Thesaurus/KEGG)