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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Aug 28.
Published in final edited form as: Handb Exp Pharmacol. 2012;(207):159–176. doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-23056-1_8

Table 1.

Six disaccharides that constitute the major building blocks of heparan sulfate chains

Disaccharide structure Structural notation
graphic file with name nihms-506332-t0004.jpg ΔU-HNAc
graphic file with name nihms-506332-t0005.jpg ΔU-HNS
graphic file with name nihms-506332-t0006.jpg ΔU-HNAc6S
graphic file with name nihms-506332-t0007.jpg ΔU-HNS6S
graphic file with name nihms-506332-t0008.jpg ΔU2S-HNS
graphic file with name nihms-506332-t0009.jpg ΔU2S-HNS6S