Nomenclature used in chemical representation of monosaccharides in ABSD
Sugar name: α-L-Fucp
Position: 1-2-3456
1: α and β represent the anomeric forms of the sugar molecules
2: D and L represent the enantiomers of the sugar molecule
345: Tri-letter sugar code (see below)
6: The molecule name terminates with ‘p’ or ‘f’ is for pyranose or furanose sugar forms respectively
Schematic representation
The schematic representation has been adopted from the glycan representation developed by the Consortium for functional glycomics (CFG) for sugars without derivatives and for sugars with derivatives, the representations are modified.
