amino sugar

monosaccharide having one alcoholic hydroxy group (commonly but not necessarily in position 2) replaced by an amino group; systematically known as x-amino-x-deoxymonosaccharides. (Glycosylamines are excluded)
ChemicalSubstance structural_class_of_chemical_entities Q414083
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amino sugar

Summary

amino sugar is a structural class of chemical entities[1]. It draws 34 Wikipedia views per month (structural_class_of_chemical_entities category, ranking #212 of 1,029).[2]

Key Facts

  • amino sugar's instance of is recorded as structural class of chemical entities[3].
  • amino sugar's GND ID is recorded as 4142206-5[4].
  • amino sugar's subclass of is recorded as amine[5].
  • amino sugar's subclass of is recorded as monosaccharide derivative[6].
  • amino sugar's NDL Authority ID is recorded as 00560237[7].
  • amino sugar's part of is recorded as amino sugar metabolic process[8].
  • amino sugar's part of is recorded as amino sugar catabolic process[9].
  • amino sugar's part of is recorded as amino sugar biosynthetic process[10].
  • amino sugar's Commons category is recorded as Amino sugars[11].
  • amino sugar's MeSH descriptor ID is recorded as D000606[12].
  • amino sugar's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/02l60r[13].
  • amino sugar's MeSH tree code is recorded as D09.067[14].
  • amino sugar's ChEBI ID is recorded as 28963[15].
  • amino sugar's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Amino sugars[16].
  • amino sugar's described by source is recorded as Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 1[17].
  • amino sugar's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as science/amino-sugar[18].
  • amino sugar's UMLS CUI is recorded as C0002531[19].
  • amino sugar's Encyclopædia Universalis ID is recorded as osamines[20].
  • amino sugar's Quora topic ID is recorded as Amino-Sugar[21].
  • amino sugar's JSTOR topic ID is recorded as amino-sugars[22].
  • amino sugar's IUPAC Gold Book ID is recorded as A00283[23].
  • amino sugar's IUPAC Gold Book ID is recorded as G02658[24].
  • amino sugar's Elhuyar ZTH ID is recorded as 131962[25].
  • amino sugar's Brockhaus Enzyklopädie online ID is recorded as aminozucker[26].
  • amino sugar's Römpp online ID is recorded as RD-01-02104[27].

Why It Matters

amino sugar draws 34 Wikipedia views per month (structural_class_of_chemical_entities category, ranking #212 of 1,029).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 18 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] It is known by 11 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . Glossary of Class Names of Organic Compounds and Reactive Intermediates Based on Structure (IUPAC Recommendations 1995). wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . Glossary of Class Names of Organic Compounds and Reactive Intermediates Based on Structure (IUPAC Recommendations 1995). wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . Glossary of Class Names of Organic Compounds and Reactive Intermediates Based on Structure (IUPAC Recommendations 1995). wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . Gene Ontology release 2019-11-16. wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . Gene Ontology release 2019-11-16. wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . Gene Ontology release 2019-11-16. wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . UMLS 2023. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . Quora. wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [28] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [29] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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