muco-series

English

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)
   • 2000, Pascale Cossart, Cellular Microbiology, →ISBN, page 60:

     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.

   • 2002, Calbiochem ... General Catalog, page 374:

     A neutral glycosphingolipid (GSL) that is the common precursor of the ganglio-, globo-, globoiso-, lacto-, neolacto-, and muco-series of GSL.

   • 2013, Hinrich Rahmann, Gangliosides and Modulation of Neuronal Functions, →ISBN, page 41:

     Except for members of the muco–series that have so far only been reported from the laboratory of Slomiany (for review, see (10)), gangliosides belonging to all other carbohydrate series present in vertebrates have been characterised.

Alternative forms

• mucoseries
• muco series

Hyponyms

• MetaCyc* mucotriaose
• mucotetraose

Related terms

• arthro-series
• gala-series
• ganglioseries
• globoseries
• isogloboseries
• lactoseries
• mollu-series
• neogala-series
• neolacto-series
• schisto-series
• spirometo-series