polyglucan

English

Etymology

poly- +‎ glucan

Noun

polyglucan (plural polyglucans)

1. (biochemistry) Any polysaccharide containing glucan units
   • 2015 September 15, “The Role of Cysteine Residues in Redox Regulation and Protein Stability of Arabidopsis thaliana Starch Synthase 1”, in PLOS ONE‎^[1], →DOI:

     It has a structural fold termed GT-B and a retaining mechanism of glucose transfer giving an α-configuration of the growing polyglucan chain (http://www.cazy.org/ ).