A saccharide attached to a single amino acid by any kind of
covalent bond. A
glycosyl-amino-acid is a compound consisting of saccharide linked through a glycosyl linkage (
O-,
N-, or
S-) to an amino acid.
Note:
The hyphens are needed to avoid implying that the carbohydrate is necessarily linked to the amino group.
Source:
Cite as:
IUPAC. Compendium of Chemical Terminology, 2nd ed. (the "Gold Book"). Compiled by A. D. McNaught and A. Wilkinson. Blackwell Scientific Publications, Oxford (1997). XML on-line corrected version: http://goldbook.iupac.org (2006-) created by M. Nic, J. Jirat, B. Kosata; updates compiled by A. Jenkins. ISBN 0-9678550-9-8.
doi:10.1351/goldbook.
