Table 3. Degree of Polymerization (DP) and Relative Linkage Composition of Observed and Expected Linkages for Fractionated Galactose Derived Oligosaccharides.
| observed
linkage |
expected
linkage |
|||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DP | t-galactose (%) | 4-galactose (%) | ratio (t-galactose/4-galactose) | t-galactose (%) | 4-galactose (%) | Ratio (t-galactose/4-galactose |
| 3 | 68.0 | 32.0 | 2.13 | 33.3 | 66.7 | 0.50 |
| 4 | 58.3 | 41.7 | 1.40 | 25.0 | 75.0 | 0.33 |
| 5 | 53.3 | 46.7 | 1.14 | 20.0 | 80.0 | 0.25 |
| 6 | 45.4 | 54.6 | 0.83 | 16.7 | 83.3 | 0.20 |
| 7 | 44.0 | 56.0 | 0.79 | 14.3 | 85.7 | 0.17 |
| 8 | 39.3 | 60.7 | 0.65 | 12.5 | 87.5 | 0.14 |
| 9 | 36.2 | 63.8 | 0.57 | 11.1 | 88.9 | 0.13 |
| 10 | 35.5 | 64.5 | 0.55 | 10.0 | 90.0 | 0.11 |