Title: glyco-amino-acid
Long Title: IUPAC Gold Book - glyco-amino-acid
DOI: 10.1351/goldbook.G02650
Status: current

Definition
A saccharide attached to a single amino acid by any kind of covalent bond. A glycosyl-amino-acid is a compound consisting of saccharide linked through a glycosyl linkage (O-, N-, or S-) to an amino acid.

Note
The hyphens are needed to avoid implying that the carbohydrate is necessarily linked to the amino group.

Related Term
- covalent bond: https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/C01384

Source
- White Book, 2nd ed., p. 85 (https://iupac.qmul.ac.uk/bibliog/white.html)

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Citation: Citation: 'glyco-amino-acid' in IUPAC Compendium of Chemical Terminology, 5th ed. International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry; 2025. Online version 5.0.0, 2025. 10.1351/goldbook.G02650
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