asialogalactose

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English

Etymology

From a- +‎ sialo- +‎ galactose.

Noun

asialogalactose

  1. (biochemistry) A galactose moiety from which a sialic acid residue has been removed.
    • 2015, Karunya Srinivasan et al., “A Quantitative Microtiter Assay for Sialylated Glycoform Analyses Using Lectin Complexes”, in Journal of Biomolecular Screening, volume 20, →DOI:
      The difference in relative ECL signals between S1Fc (72%) and S2Fc (5%) is because S1Fc contains one terminal asialogalactose to which the ECL-NA complex binds compared with the absence of free terminal asialogalactose in S2Fc ( Fig.