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Meaning of muco-series | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C1

Definitions

A class of glycosphingolipids containing the sequence Galβ(1,3)Galβ(1,4)Galβ(1,4)Glcβ-Cer (galactose, galactose, galactose, glucose, ceramide)

Examples

Several hundred eukaryotic cell surface glycolipid structures are known, and they belong to different core saccharide series such as the lacto-, the ganglio-, the globo-, or the muco-series.”
“A neutral glycosphingolipid (GSL) that is the common precursor of the ganglio-, globo-, globoiso-, lacto-, neolacto-, and muco-series of GSL.”
Except for members of the muco–series that have so far only been reported from the laboratory of Slomiany (for review, see (10)), gangliosides belonging to all other carbohydrate series present in vertebrates have been characterised.”

CEFR level

C1
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This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
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