Lecture 10: Carbohydrate Structure Flashcards
(3 cards)
1
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Why is saccharin 100x sweeter than sucrose despite both binding to GPCRs?
A
- tighter binding
- lower Km/Kd
- better signalling= more amplifcation= increased cAMP
2
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Describe how carbohydrate nomenclature for length
A
use greek numbers and end in -ose
so, tri, tetra, penta, hexa, -ose
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