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Imino sugars

Term · Agriculture and food · MLC-T-AGR-003347

Sugars in which the oxygen is replaced by a nitrogen atom. This substitution prevents normal metabolism resulting in inhibition of glycosidases and glycosyltransferases.

Table 1. Record
IdentifierMLC-T-AGR-003347
FieldAgriculture and food
SubjectFields of Study
ReferencesMedical Subject Headings 2013; NAL Agricultural Thesaurus and Glossary (CC BY 4.0)
See alsoSugars; Deoxynojirimycin; Fagomine
TranslationsSpanish: iminoazúcares
Record as JSON 
{
  "id": "MLC-T-AGR-003347",
  "term": "Imino sugars",
  "field": "Agriculture and food",
  "definition": "Sugars in which the oxygen is replaced by a nitrogen atom. This substitution prevents normal metabolism resulting in inhibition of glycosidases and glycosyltransferases.",
  "subject": "Fields of Study",
  "see_also": [
    "sugars",
    "deoxynojirimycin",
    "fagomine"
  ],
  "references": [
    "Medical Subject Headings 2013",
    "NAL Agricultural Thesaurus and Glossary"
  ],
  "translations": {
    "es": "iminoazúcares"
  },
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/agriculture/imino-sugars/"
}

Record 3,310 of 6,798 in Agriculture and food terminology (MLC-0114). Request the full dataset.