an oligosaccharide whose molecules have three linked monosaccharide molecules
trisaccharide in American English
(traɪˈsækəˌraɪd)
noun
a carbohydrate yielding three monosaccharides upon hydrolysis, as raffinose
trisaccharide in American English
(traiˈsækəˌraid, -ərɪd)
noun
Chemistry
a carbohydrate composed of three monosaccharide units, and hydrolyzable to a monosaccharideor a mixture of monosaccharides
Word origin
[1895–1900; tri- + saccharide]This word is first recorded in the period 1895–1900. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: backstage, backwind, cutback, frame of reference, hit-and-runtri- is a combining form meaning “three,” used in the formation of compound words. Otherwords that use the affix tri- include: triforium, triglyceride, triglyph, trilemma, trio
Examples of 'trisaccharide' in a sentence
trisaccharide
Also, a yet unknown trisaccharide, was significantly enriched in zygotic embryos.
Traud eWinkelmann, Svenja eRatjens, Melanie eBartsch, Christina eRode, Karsten eNiehaus,Hanna eBednarz 2015, 'Metabolite profiling of somatic embryos of Cyclamen persicum in comparison to zygoticembryos, endosperm and testa', Frontiers in Plant Sciencehttp://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpls.2015.00597/full. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
The resulting trisaccharide thioglycosides were finally coupled to an n-pentenyl galactoside acceptor to access the two protected branched tetrasaccharides.
Alexandra N. Zakharova, Shahid I. Awan, Faranak Nami, Charlotte H. Gotfredsen, RobertMadsen, Mads H. Clausen 2018, 'Synthesis of Two Tetrasaccharide Pentenyl Glycosides Related to the Pectic RhamnogalacturonanI Polysaccharide', Moleculeshttp://www.mdpi.com/1420-3049/23/2/327. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Under these conditions, the 6-chlorohexyl and 6-azidohexyl intermediates led respectively to the n-hexyl and 6-aminohexyl trisaccharide targets.
An Wang, Jenifer Hendel, France-Isabelle Auzanneau 2010, 'Convergent syntheses of LeX analogues', Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistryhttps://doi.org/10.3762/bjoc.6.17. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)