This carboxylic acid derivative of glucose is fond in heparin and chondrotin sulfate.

These two different types of conformers of aldoses are clearly different from configuration isomers.

This sugar is in ATP
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The name for this structures suggests segregation
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This polysaccharide is the major constituents of exoskeletons.

The name of the simplest ketose

This glycosidic link is found in cellulose.

This structure is usually found in these types of N-linked oligosaccharides
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This reagent and catalyst can be used to cleave acetal links

This pair represents a certain kind of configurational isomers.
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This is the net charge at physiological pH on the repeat dissacharide unit of heparin.

The penultimate  C (and last chiral carbon) contains an OH that points to the right in this kind of sugar.

 

The name of this structure suggests symmetry
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Bacteria cell walls contain a repeat of this dissacharide unit.

The dominant form of Glc in solution

This sugar contains a phosphate group, which are common in sugar derivatives as they undergo catabolic degradation in cells.
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This polysaccharide is used for energy storage in plants

This link glycosidic link is found in glycogen and starch

This is the number of monosaccharides in the repeat unit of glycosoaminoglycans.

amide: peptide bond :: acetal: ______

This glycosoaminoglycan is found in synovial fluid

The name of this sugar implies that it is a sugar-amine derivative
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Found in bacteria, these structures contain both carbohydrate and amino acids.

The  link between  NAM on adjacent strands of a bacterial cell wall contains a pentapeptide of this amino acid. 

This pair represents a certain kind of configurational isomers
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Attached to NAN in Gram + bacterial cell walls, teichoic acid consists of a polymer of this molecule linked by phosphodiester bonds.

The dominate form of Glc in a polysaccharide

This reaction is typical of aldehydes and nucleophiles

This adds to a hemiacetal to form an acetal.

N-linked oligosaccharides ususally connect to a protein at this amino acid.

This is the simplest 3C aldose
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O-linked oligosaccharides usually connect to a protein at this amino acid.

The name of this sugar derivative implies that it is an acid.
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This sugar is found in all high mannose, N-linked oligosaccharides in glycoproteins.

This polysaccharide is used for energy storage in animals.

The name of this structure suggests symmetry
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The names of two unusual amino acids found in bacterial cell walls

Complex N-linked oligosaccharides in glycoproteins usually terminate in this sugar derivatives.

These two sites are where you would expect to find proteoglycans.

The only aldose with all bulky substituents in the equatorial position
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The dominant form of fructose in solution

The direction that an -OH group points in a Haworth projection if it points to the right in the aldose or ketose linear form

This glycosidic link connects monomers in the dissacharide repeat of heparin.

Water-soluble proteins can be attached to membranes by attaching a isoprenoid derivative to this amino acid.

The disaccharide sucrose, Glc  α(1--> 2) Frc can not do this, but the disaccharide lactose, Gal β(1 --> 4) Glc can.
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This kind of glycoprotein has an extensive amount of glycosoaminoglycan covalently attached to a protein core.

The dominant form of fructose in solution

The phospholipid is often attached to GlcNAc in soluble glycoproteins and anchors them to membranes.

This structure, derived from D-Man and pyruvic acid, might prove to be the one which most separates human and chimps.
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Of a eukaryotic, Gram (+) bacteria, or Gram (-) bacteria, the one with the most complicated membrane/cell wall structure.

The definition of a sugar

A 6-member heterocyclic ring containing oxygen and two double bonds within the ring.