Oligosaccharides is an English word. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Oligosaccharides meaning
plural of oligosaccharide
Using Oligosaccharides
- The main meaning on this page is: plural of oligosaccharide
- In the example corpus, oligosaccharides often appears in combinations such as: of oligosaccharides, oligosaccharides oligosaccharides, oligosaccharides are.
Context around Oligosaccharides
- Average sentence length in these examples: 20.5 words
- Position in the sentence: 4 start, 4 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 12 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Oligosaccharides
- In this selection, "oligosaccharides" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 20.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, consumed, step and contain stand out and add context to how "oligosaccharides" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include and other oligosaccharides and determination of oligosaccharides and polysaccharides. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "oligosaccharides" sits close to words such as aadi, aakash and aayush, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with oligosaccharides
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Oligosaccharides Oligosaccharides are sugar containing polymers. (6 words)
Other amylase enzymes may convert starch to glucose or to oligosaccharides. (11 words)
Oligosaccharides of glucose combined with other sugars serve as important energy stores. (12 words)
Analogous to the above reactions, the glucose produced can then undergo glycolysis in tissues that need energy, be stored as glycogen (or starch in plants), or be converted to other monosaccharides or joined into di- or oligosaccharides. (37 words)
Carbohydrates and miscellaneous contents A simplified representation of a lactose molecule being broken down into glucose (2) and galactose (1) Milk contains several different carbohydrate including lactose, glucose, galactose, and other oligosaccharides. (32 words)
As a rule of thumb, polysaccharides contain more than ten monosaccharide units, whereas oligosaccharides contain three through ten monosaccharide units; but the precise cutoff varies somewhat according to convention. (29 words)
Example sentences (12)
Oligosaccharides Oligosaccharides are sugar containing polymers.
Analogous to the above reactions, the glucose produced can then undergo glycolysis in tissues that need energy, be stored as glycogen (or starch in plants), or be converted to other monosaccharides or joined into di- or oligosaccharides.
As a normal human digestive tract does not contain any anti-oligosaccharide enzymes, consumed oligosaccharides are typically digested by bacteria in the large intestine.
As a rule of thumb, polysaccharides contain more than ten monosaccharide units, whereas oligosaccharides contain three through ten monosaccharide units; but the precise cutoff varies somewhat according to convention.
Carbohydrates and miscellaneous contents A simplified representation of a lactose molecule being broken down into glucose (2) and galactose (1) Milk contains several different carbohydrate including lactose, glucose, galactose, and other oligosaccharides.
For example, phosphorylation of oligosaccharides on lysosomal proteins occurs in the early CGN.
In this step, oligosaccharides (not monosaccharides as in step 3) are added, and then the procollagen is packaged into a secretory vesicle destined for the extracellular space.
Methods for the structure determination of oligosaccharides and polysaccharides include NMR spectroscopy and methylation analysis.
Oligosaccharides of glucose combined with other sugars serve as important energy stores.
Oligosaccharides, such as stachyose and raffinose, are reduced in higher amounts during germination than during cooking.
Other amylase enzymes may convert starch to glucose or to oligosaccharides.
Some species of mold produce alpha-galactosidase, an anti-oligosaccharide enzyme, which humans can take to facilitate digestion of oligosaccharides in the small intestine.
Common combinations with oligosaccharides
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- of oligosaccharides 3×
- oligosaccharides oligosaccharides 2×
- oligosaccharides are 2×