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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Feb 1.
Published in final edited form as: Curr Opin Chem Biol. 2017 Nov 5;42:1–8. doi: 10.1016/j.cbpa.2017.10.007

Figure 1.

Figure 1

The isomerization of glycan and glycoconjugates. a) The building blocks (monosaccharides) that compose larger glycans are structural isomers (Hexose: galactose, glucose, mannose, N-acetylhexosamine: N-acetylgalactosamine, N-acetylglucosamine); monosaccharides can be connected either α- or β-stereochemistry at multiple potential linkage position; fucose could be either attached to N-glycan core or branches. b) Epimeric glycoconjugates results from alternative configurations (α- or β-) at the anomeric linkages or the presence of epimeric glycan monomers (galactose or glucose), scheme modified from reference [43]; two isomeric N-glycopeptides differ in the site of N-glycan attachment.