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thumb|upright=1.5|3D structure of cellulose, a [[beta-glucan polysaccharide]] thumb|class=skin-invert-image|upright=1.5|Amylose is a linear [[polymer of glucose mainly linked with α(1→4) bonds. It can be made of several thousands of glucose units. It is one of the two components of starch, the other being amylopectin.]]
A polysaccharide is a large molecule made up of many sugar units linked together in a chain, with examples including cellulose (found in plants) and starch (a storage carbohydrate in many organisms). Polysaccharides are important because they serve as key structural materials and energy sources—cellulose provides plant cell structure, while starch stores energy that organisms can access when needed.
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Research
755,281 papers- Astragalus polysaccharide: a review of its immunomodulatory effect.ReviewArchives of pharmacal research · 2022Li CX, Liu Y, Zhang YZ et al.DOI: 10.1007/s12272-022-01393-3
- Polysaccharide nanoparticles: from fabrication to applications.ReviewJournal of materials chemistry. B · 2021Plucinski A, Lyu Z, Schmidt BVKJDOI: 10.1039/d1tb00628b
- Biological activities and pharmaceutical applications of polysaccharide from natural resources: A review.ReviewCarbohydrate polymers · 2018Yu Y, Shen M, Song Q et al.DOI: 10.1016/j.carbpol.2017.12.009
- Extracellular polysaccharide biosynthesis in Cordyceps.ReviewCritical reviews in microbiology · 2020Yang S, Yang X, Zhang HDOI: 10.1080/1040841X.2020.1794788
- Polysaccharide-Based Biomaterials in Tissue Engineering: A Review.ReviewTissue engineering. Part B, Reviews · 2021Jin M, Shi J, Zhu W et al.DOI: 10.1089/ten.TEB.2020.0208
- Polysaccharide lyases.ReviewApplied biochemistry and biotechnology · 1986Linhardt RJ, Galliher PM, Cooney CLDOI: 10.1007/BF02798420
- Plant polysaccharide degradation-related enzymes in Aspergillus oryzae.ReviewBioscience, biotechnology, and biochemistry · 2024Matsuzawa TDOI: 10.1093/bbb/zbad177
- Polysaccharide-based hydrogels: New insights and futuristic prospects in wound healing.ReviewInternational journal of biological macromolecules · 2022Raina N, Pahwa R, Thakur VK et al.DOI: 10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2022.11.115
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- biopolymer
- Has part
- oxygen
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- polymer of
- monosaccharide
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