xylosyl
Xylosyl is a chemical term used to denote a substituent or residue derived from xylose, a five-carbon aldose sugar. In glycoscience, xylosyl indicates that a xylose unit is attached to another molecule via a glycosidic bond, usually at the anomeric carbon, resulting in a xyloside or a xylosylated compound. The term is widely used in naming glycosides, oligosaccharides, and glycoproteins.
Xylose exists as two enantiomers, but the naturally occurring form is predominantly D-xylose. In biology, xylosyl
In nomenclature, the suffix -osyl denotes a sugar-derived substituent. For example, xylosyl transferases are enzymes that