8 Sugars

By Naoki Hada on April 3, 2005 5:45 PM | Permalink | Comments (1)

8 sugars necessary for our cell-to-cell communication.

Sugar (monosaccharide)	abbreviation
Glucose	Glu
Xylose	Xy
Fucose	Fuc
N-acetylglucosamine	GlcNAc
Mannose	Man
N-acetylgalactosamine	GalNAc
Galactose	Gal
N-acetylneuraminic acid or Sialic acid	NANA or SA

1 Comments

Benedicte ANGOT said:

I would like to know what is the role of each sugar and where I can find them in food or products
Thanks