noun
- A six-carbon sugar (monosaccharide) found in many plants, seaweeds, and bacterial cell walls; also called 6-deoxygalactose.
Usage: technical; biochemistry
Examples
- Fucose is a component of the cell wall polysaccharides in brown algae.
- The sugar fucose plays an important role in cell recognition and immune responses.
- Researchers identified fucose residues in the glycoproteins of the bacterial strain.
- Brown seaweed contains significant amounts of fucose in its structural carbohydrates.