Linear 100-mer polysaccharide within 188 hours Now, two chemists, postdoctoral fellow Dr. Abragam Joseph and PhD student Alonso Pardo-Vargas in the team led by Peter H. Seeberger, Director at the Max ...

Linear polysaccharides are precipitated from 1 per cent solution in 30 per cent aqueous calcium chloride by the addition of aqueous potassium iodide–iodine solutions, whereas branched ...

Cellulose Cellulose is a linear polysaccharide composed of glucose monomers linked by β-1,4-glycosidic bonds. It is found in various marine organisms, such as macroalgae and certain bacteria. Chitin ...

Letter Published: 23 September 1961 Separation of Linear from Branched Polysaccharides by Precipitation as Iodine Complexes BLANCHE D. E. GAILLARD Nature 191, 1295–1296 (1961) Cite this article ...

Glycosaminoglycans are linear polysaccharide chains which are highly sulphated and are involved in growth factor interactions. The glycosaminoglycan chain of decorin is either of chondroitin (CS) or ...

The six mammalian glycosaminoglycans (GAGs), chondroitin sulfate, dermatan sulfate, heparin, heparan sulfate, hyaluronan, and keratan sulfate, are linear polysaccharides. Except for hyaluronan, they ...

Image Credit: TinyPhoto/Shutterstock.com An Introduction to Cellulose Cellulose is by far the most common biopolymer on the planet, and it is well known for its renewable, biocompatible, and ...

A new automated method synthesizes long polysaccharides out of mannose (green circles), creating a 100-unit-long polymer and a 151-unit branched polymer. Credit: J. Am. Chem. Soc.