# 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)

**Wikidata**: [Q414083](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q414083)  
**Wikipedia**: [English](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amino_sugar)  
**Source**: https://4ort.xyz/entity/amino-sugar


## References

1. Glossary of Class Names of Organic Compounds and Reactive Intermediates Based on Structure (IUPAC Recommendations 1995)
2. Gene Ontology release 2019-11-16
3. Freebase Data Dumps. 2013
4. UMLS 2023
5. Quora
6. [OpenAlex](https://docs.openalex.org/download-snapshot/snapshot-data-format)