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Polysaccharides are homo- or copolymers of sugar residues joined together. Practically all of the sugar residues are hexoses or pentoses of the aldose type; ketose residues occur rarely in polysaccharides. D-Glucose, D-galactose, and D-mannose dominate in the case of the aldohexoses, and L-arabinose, D-ribose, and D-xylose mainly occur among the aldopentoses. Glycosidic bonds occur between the sugar residues. The polysaccharide chains may be linear or have comb- or star-shaped branching. Polysaccharides mostly do not occur in the pure state in nature; they most often possess a stable and probably covalently bonded peptide component to the extent of a few percent. This peptide component is rich in hydroxyl group containing amino acids.
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Elias, HG. (1984). Polysaccharides. In: Macromolecules. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-2809-2_17
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