Tags: Chemical Compound, Chemical Substance.

Melibiose is a reducing disaccharide formed by an alpha-16 linkage between galactose and glucose (D-Gal-α(1→6)-D-Glc). It can be formed by invertase-mediated hydrolysis of raffinose which produces melibiose and fructose. Melibiose can be broken down into its component saccharides glucose and galactose by the enzyme Alpha-galactosidase such as MEL1 from Saccharomyces pastorianus.

Melibiose_structure.svg
IUPAC name
(2R3R4S5S6R)-6-(2S3R4S5R6R)-345-trihydroxy-6-(hydroxymethyl)oxan-2-yl]oxymethyl]oxane-2345-tetrol

Loading...

This page contains content from the copyrighted Wikipedia article "Melibiose"; that content is used under the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL). You may redistribute it, verbatim or modified, providing that you comply with the terms of the GFDL.